Dentsuin Temple

Japanese: 伝通院 - でんつういん

Year of death: August 28, 1602 (October 13, 1602)
Year of birth: Kyoroku 1 (1528)
A woman from a samurai family during the Sengoku period. The birth mother of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Odai. Her father was Mizuno Tadamasa, lord of Kariya Castle in Mikawa (Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture). After her mother, Otomi (Kayoin), lost Tadamasa, she remarried Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, lord of Okazaki Castle, and Odai moved to Okazaki Castle with her mother. In 1541, she married Kiyoyasu's son Matsudaira Hirotada, and gave birth to Ieyasu the following year. However, in 1548, she was separated from him when her father's Mizuno clan sided with the Oda clan, and she returned to her birthplace. She later remarried Hisamatsu Toshikatsu, lord of Akoi Castle (Chita County) in the same province. She gave birth to three sons and four daughters. In 1560, she was reunited with Ieyasu at Akoi Castle, where he was heading to Okehazama as the vanguard of the Imagawa forces. Later, her husband Toshikatsu was allowed to use the hollyhock crest and the Matsudaira family name, and her sons Katsutoshi and Sadakatsu were treated as members of Ieyasu's family. In 1602, just after an audience with Emperor Goyozei, she died at Fushimi Castle and was posthumously awarded the rank of Junior First Rank. She is buried in Denzuin Temple in Tokyo. <References> Nakamura Takaya, "Ieyasu's Family Leaves"

(Keiko Nishimura)

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

Japanese:

没年：慶長7.8.28(1602.10.13)
生年：享禄1(1528)
戦国時代の武家の女性。徳川家康の生母。於大。父は三河刈屋城(愛知県刈谷市)城主水野忠政。母の於富(華陽院)は,忠政と死別して岡崎城主松平清康に再嫁,於大も母と共に岡崎城に入った。天文10(1541)年,清康の子松平広忠に嫁し,翌11年家康を出産。しかし,同13年父方水野氏が織田氏に加担したことから離別され,生家に戻る。その後,同国阿古居城(知多郡)城主久松俊勝と再婚。3男4女を生む。永禄3(1560)年,今川勢の先鋒として桶狭間に向かう家康に阿古居城で再会。のち,夫俊勝は葵の紋と松平姓を許され,実子勝俊,定勝は家康の一族として遇された。慶長7(1602)年,後陽成天皇に謁した直後に伏見城で死去,従一位追贈。墓所は東京都伝通院。<参考文献>中村孝也『家康の族葉』

(西村圭子)

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