Omiyo no kata - Omiyo no kata

Japanese: お美代の方 - おみよのかた

Year of death: 1872 (Meiji 5)
Year of birth: Unknown. In the late Edo period, she was a concubine to the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari. She became a concubine in 1810 and was the favorite of Ienari in his later years. She was the mother of Princess Yaguhime (wife of Maeda Noriyasu, lord of Kanazawa), Princess Naka (who died young), and Princess Suehime (wife of Asano Nariaki, lord of Hiroshima). When Princess Yaguhime married into the Maeda clan of Kaga, they built a vermilion-painted Goshudenmon gate (the red gate of the University of Tokyo) at their main residence. Her biological father is said to have been a low-ranking shogunate official, but he was widely rumored to be Nikkei, the chief priest of Chisen-in Temple at Nakayama Hokekyoji Temple. She was under the protection of Ienari, along with her adoptive father, Nakano Sekio, head of the small storehouse, and other members of the family, and boasted great influence.

(Hisako Katakura)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：明治5(1872)
生年：生年不詳
江戸後期,11代将軍徳川家斉の側室。文化7(1810)年中臈,家斉晩年の寵愛を一身に受ける。溶姫(金沢藩主前田斉泰室),仲姫(早世),末姫(広島藩主浅野斉粛室)の母。加賀前田家は溶姫の入輿に当たり上屋敷に朱塗りの御守殿門(東大の赤門)をつくった。実父には下級幕臣の名もあげられているが,巷間では中山法華経寺智泉院住持日啓と喧伝されていた。養父小納戸頭取中野碩翁ら一族ともに家斉の庇護を受け権勢を誇った。

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