Princess Asahi

Japanese: 朝日姫 - あさひひめ

1543-90 (Tenbun 12-Tensho 18)
A woman from the Azuchi-Momoyama period. She was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's half-sister, born to Takeami, and is said to have married Saji Hyuganokami. As part of Hideyoshi's strategy to appease Tokugawa Ieyasu, who refused to come to Kyoto even after the peace treaty was concluded following the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, she remarried to Ieyasu in 1586, but Ieyasu did not come to Kyoto until Hideyoshi's mother traveled to Okazaki. As she lived in Suruga Fuchu, she was known as Suruga Gozen. She died of an illness in Kyoto and was buried at Tofukuji Temple. [Kato Mariko]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1543‐90(天文12‐天正18)
安土桃山時代の女性。豊臣秀吉の異父妹で，竹阿弥を父として生まれ，佐治日向守に嫁したと伝えられる。小牧･長久手の戦の講和成立後も上洛を拒む徳川家康に対する秀吉の懐柔策の一環として，1586年家康に再嫁したが，家康の上洛は，秀吉の母の岡崎行きまで実現しなかった。駿河府中に住んだため，駿河御前と呼ばれた。京都で病死し，東福寺に葬られた。【加藤真理子】

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