Yodo-gimi

Japanese: 淀君 - よどぎみ

Born: Around 1567. Omi, Otari
[Died] May 8, 1615. A concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Osaka. Her name was Chacha, and she was later called Yododono, Nishinomarudono, and Ninomarudono. She was the eldest daughter of Azai Nagamasa, a military commander in Omi. Her mother was Oichi (→Odani no Kata), the younger sister of Oda Nobunaga. In 1573, when Odani Castle in Azai County was attacked and fell to Oda Nobunaga, she escaped with her mother and two younger sisters and returned to Kiyosu Castle in Owari. In 1576, her mother Oichi remarried to Shibata Katsuie, and she followed him to Kitanosho Castle in Echizen, but the following year Kitanosho was attacked and fell to Hashiba Hideyoshi, and Shibata Katsuie was destroyed, and her mother was killed in the process. She escaped again with her two younger sisters and was protected by Hideyoshi, and in 1577, she became Hideyoshi's concubine, moved to Yodo Castle in the mountains, and was called Yodo no Nyobo. Around Bunroku 1 (92), she moved to the Ninomaru of Osaka Castle and was called Ninomarudono. In the 2nd year of the same year, she gave birth to a son, O-Hiroi (later Hideyori), and soon after moved to the Nishinomaru of Fushimi Castle and was called Nishinomarudono. In Keicho 8 (1603), Senhime, born to Tokugawa Hidetada and Kogo, married Hideyori, and in the 10th year of the same year, Hidetada became Shogun and Hideyori became Minister of the Right. In the 19th year of the same year, the incident of the inscription on the bell occurred during the construction of the Great Buddha Hall of Hoko-ji Temple in Kyoto, and then the Winter Siege of Osaka occurred. In Genna 1 (15), a peace agreement was reached between the East and the West, but then the Summer Siege occurred, and finally Osaka Castle fell, Yodo-dono and Hideyori committed suicide, and the Toyotomi clan was destroyed.

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Japanese:

[生]永禄10(1567)頃.近江，小谷
[没]元和1(1615).5.8. 大坂
豊臣秀吉の側室。名はちゃちゃ，のちに淀殿，西の丸殿，二の丸殿と呼ばれた。近江の武将浅井長政の長女。母は織田信長の妹お市 (→小谷の方 ) 。天正1 (1573) 年浅井郡小谷城が織田信長に攻められ落城するや母，妹2人とともに脱出，尾張清洲城に帰った。同 10年母お市の方が柴田勝家に再嫁するとこれに従って越前北庄城に入ったが，北庄は翌年羽柴秀吉に攻められ落城し，柴田勝家は滅び，母もこれに殉じた。妹2人とともに再び脱出して秀吉の保護を受け，同 17年頃に秀吉の側室となり，山城の淀城に移り，淀の女房と呼ばれた。文禄1 (92) 年頃大坂城二の丸に移り，二の丸殿と呼ばれた。同2年男児お拾 (ひろい，のちの秀頼) を産み，まもなく伏見城西の丸に移り，西の丸殿と呼ばれた。慶長8 (1603) 年徳川秀忠と小督の間に生れた千姫が秀頼に嫁し，同 10年秀忠が征夷大将軍に，秀頼が右大臣となった。同 19年京都方広寺大仏殿の造営に伴う鐘銘事件が起り，さらに大坂冬の陣が起った。元和1 (15) 年1度東西和議が成立したが，続いて夏の陣が起り，ついに大坂落城となって淀君，秀頼は自刃し，豊臣氏は滅亡した。

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