Tsukiyamadono

Wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Also called Suruga Gozen. Her father was Sekiguchi Yoshihiro (some say Ujihiro, others Chikanaga), and her mother was the younger sister of Imagawa Yoshimoto of Suruga. In 1556 (Koji 2), as an adopted daughter of Yoshimoto, she married Ieyasu, who was a hostage of the Imagawa clan at the time and the lord of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa in Sunpu, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter, Nobuyasu and Kamehime. Later, when Ieyasu gained independence, she was welcomed and moved to Okazaki in 1562 (Eiroku 5), and when Ieyasu moved to Hamamatsu in Totomi in 1570 (Genki 1), she remained in Okazaki under the care of his heir, Nobuyasu. On August 29, 79 (Tensho 7), he was reprimanded by Oda Nobunaga for colluding with Takeda Katsuyori, and was killed by his vassal Nonaka Shigemasa, who was ordered by Ieyasu, near Hamamatsu. He was 38 years old by Japanese reckoning. His posthumous name was Saiko-in (later changed to Seichi-in), and he was buried at Seiryu-ji Temple in Totomi (Futamata, Futamata-cho, Tenryu-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture).

[Kitahara Akio]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

徳川家康の室。駿河御前(するがごぜん)ともいう。父は関口義広(よしひろ)（一説に氏広、また親永(ちかなが)など）、母は駿河の今川義元の妹。1556年（弘治2）義元の養女として、当時今川氏の人質となり駿府(すんぷ)にあった三河岡崎城主の家康に嫁し、のち信康・亀姫の一男一女をもうけた。後日、家康の独立に伴い、1562年（永禄5）迎えられて岡崎に移り、70年（元亀1）家康の遠江(とおとうみ)浜松移徙(いし)に際し、世嗣(せいし)信康の預かる岡崎にとどまった。79年（天正7）8月29日、武田勝頼(かつより)に内通したことを織田信長に咎(とが)められ、家康の命を受けた家臣野中重政(しげまさ)の手によって浜松の近在で討ち取られた。数え年38。法号は西光院（のち清池院に改む）、遠江清滝(せいりゅう)寺（静岡県浜松市天竜区二俣町二俣）に葬る。

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