Kyōgoku Maria

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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Kyōgoku".

Kyōgoku Maria (京極マリア) or Yōfuku-in (養福院) (1543–1618) was the second daughter of Azai Hisamasa as well as Nagamasa's elder sister and the mother of Kyōgoku Takatsugu.[1] Her real name is unknown, but she was given the name "Maria" after her conversion to Christianity. She was baptized with her husband Kyōgoku Takayoshi in the Jesuits church in Kyoto in 1581, though Takayoshi died soon after. After becoming a widow, she began to preaching her new religion to people around her, and Jesuits named her as one of best female catechists of the Kyoto-Osaka area. [2]

Sometime in 1606 or 1607, Maria moved to Wakasa Province under Takatsugu's protection, and in 1609 she moved again to a remote place in Tango Province to avoid the persecution of Christians. She died peacefully in a small hut belonging to a Buddhist nunnery in 1618.

Her daughter, Tatsuko, is famous for being one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubines.

References

  1. ↑ Ward, Haruko Nawata (2009). Women religious leaders in Japan's Christian century, 1549-1650. Farnham, England: Ashgate. p. 232. ISBN 0754664783. 
  2. ↑ O'Malley, John W. (2006). The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773. University of Toronto Press. p. 649. ISBN 9780802038616. 
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