Asahi no kata

Asahi no kata (朝日の方) (1543 – February 18, 1590) was a half-sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu, two of Japan's greatest feudal warlords. She is also called Suruga Gozen (駿河御膳) and Asahi-hime (朝日姫), though none of these are names, referring to her as "the person of Asahi," "the Lady Suruga," or "Princess Asahi."

Asahi no kata was first married to Saji Hyūga no kami, but when her brother Toyotomi Hideyoshi wished to make peace with Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, Hideyoshi expressed interest in marrying her to Ieyasu. As a result, Saji Hyūga committed suicide, in order to not pose an obstacle to such a powerful political marriage, and the two were married soon afterwards.

Tokugawa and his new wife visited her mother when she fell ill in 1589; the mother of Asahi no kata and Hideyoshi died the following year, as did Asahi no kata herself.

References

Papinot, Edmond (1910). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.

Prominent people of the Sengoku period

Three major daimyo	Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu

Shogun	Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada

Emperors	Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei

Other daimyo	Akechi Mitsuhide Amago Haruhisa Amago Yoshihisa Andō Chikasue Araki Murashige Asakura Norikage Asakura Yoshikage Asano Nagamasa Asano Yoshinaga Ashina Moritaka Azai Nagamasa Bessho Nagaharu Chōsokabe Morichika Chōsokabe Motochika Date Masamune Date Terumune Fukushima Masanori Furuta Shigekatsu Gamō Ujisato Hachisuka Koroku Hatano Hideharu Hattori Kazutada Hōjō Sōun Hōjō Ujiyasu Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujinao Hōjō Ujitsuna Honda Masanobu Honda Tadakatsu Honda Tadamasa Honda Tadatomo Hori Hidemasa Hoshina Masanao Hosokawa Fujitaka Hosokawa Tadaoki Ii Naomasa Ii Naotora Ikeda Terumasa Ikeda Tsuneoki Imagawa Ujizane Imagawa Yoshimoto Ishida Masatsugu Ishida Mitsunari Katagiri Katsumoto Katakura Kojūrō Katō Kiyomasa Katō Yoshiaki Kikkawa Hiroie Kikkawa Motoharu Kinoshita Iesada Kobayakawa Hideaki Kobayakawa Takakage Konishi Yukinaga Kōriki Kiyonaga Kuroda Kanbei Kuroda Nagamasa Kyōgoku Takatomo Kyōgoku Takatsugu Maeda Gen'i Maeda Toshiie Maeda Toshinaga Mashita Nagamori Matsudaira Hirotada Matsudaira Ietada Matsudaira Kiyoyasu Matsunaga Hisahide Miyoshi Nagayoshi Mogami Yoshiaki Mōri Hidemoto Mōri Motonari Mōri Okimoto Mōri Takamoto Mōri Terumoto Nabeshima Naoshige Nakagawa Hidenari Nakagawa Kiyohide Nanbu Nobunao Natsuka Masaie Niwa Nagahide Oda Nagamasu Oda Nobuhide Oda Nobukatsu Oda Nobutaka Oda Ujiharu Okudaira Nobumasa Ōmura Sumitada Ōtani Yoshitsugu Ōtomo Sōrin Ōuchi Yoshitaka Rokkaku Yoshikata Ryūzōji Takanobu Saitō Dōsan Saitō Tatsuoki Saitō Yoshitatsu Sakakibara Yasumasa Sakai Tadatsugu Sanada Masayuki Sanada Yukitaka Sassa Narimasa Satake Yoshinobu Satake Yoshishige Shibata Katsuie Shimazu Takahisa Shimazu Tadayoshi Shimazu Yoshihisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Tachibana Dōsetsu Takahashi Shōun Takayama Ukon Takeda Katsuyori Takeda Nobutora Takeda Nobuyoshi Takeda Shingen Takigawa Kazumasu Tōdō Takatora Toki Yorinari Torii Mototada Toyotomi Hidetsugu Tsugaru Tamenobu Tsutsui Junkei Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Kagekatsu Uesugi Norimasa Ukita Hideie Ukita Naoie Yamauchi Kazutoyo Yūki Hideyasu

Other samurai	Akai Naomasa Akao Kiyotsuna Akashi Takenori Akechi Hidemitsu Akechi Mitsuharu Akechi Mitsutada Akechi Mitsutsuna Akechi Mitsuyoshi Akiyama Nobutomo Amakasu Kagemochi Anayama Nobukimi Anayama Nobutomo Andō Morinari Asakura Kageaki Azai Hisamasa Azai Sukemasa Baba Nobuharu Ban Naoyuki Chaya Shirōjirō Chōsokabe Nobuchika Date Shigezane Endo Naotsune Gotō Matabei Hara Masatane Hashiba Hidekatsu Hattori Masanari Hayashi Narinaga Honda Narishige Honda Shigetsugu Honjō Shigenaga Hōjō Tsunashige Hōjō Ujikuni Hōjō Ujinori Hōjō Ujiteru Hoshina Masatoshi Ichinomiya Munekore Ii Naochika Ii Naomori Ikeda Motosuke Imafuku Masakazu Inaba Yoshimichi Iriki-In Shigetomo Ishikawa Kazumasa Iio Noritsura Iio Tsuratatsu Isono Kazumasa Iwanari Tomomichi Kakizaki Kageie Kani Saizō Karasawa Genba Katakura Shigenaga Katsurayama Ujimoto Kimura Shigenari Kobayakawa Hidekane Kojima Yatarō Kōsaka Masanobu Kuki Yoshitaka Kuki Moritaka Kumabe Chikanaga Maeda Nagatane Maeda Keiji Maeda Toshimasa Makara Naotaka Matsuda Masachika Matsudaira Nobuyasu Mori Nagayoshi Mori Ranmaru Mori Yoshinari Mōri Katsunaga Mōri Motokiyo Mōri Yoshikatsu Murai Nagayori Murakami Yoshikiyo Nagano Narimasa Nagao Fujikage Nagao Masakage Nagao Tamekage Naitō Masatoyo Nakagawa Hidemasa Naoe Kagetsuna Naoe Kanetsugu Natsume Yoshinobu Niiro Tadamoto Nomi Munekatsu Obata Masamori Obata Toramori Obu Toramasa Oda Hidenobu Oda Hidetaka Oda Katsunaga Oda Nobuharu Oda Nobuhiro Oda Nobukane Oda Nobutada Oda Nobutoki Oda Nobuyuki Oniniwa Tsunamoto Oyamada Nobushige Saji Kazunari Saitō Toshimitsu Sakai Masahisa Sakuma Morimasa Sakuma Nobumori Sanada Nobutsuna Sanada Nobuyuki Sanada Yukimura Shibata Naganori Shima Sakon Shimazu Iehisa Shimazu Toshihisa Shimazu Toyohisa Sogō Kazumasa Sue Harukata Tachibana Muneshige Takeda Nobukado Takeda Nobushige Takenaka Hanbei Takenaka Shigekado Torii Suneemon Toyotomi Hidenaga Toyotomi Hideyori Tsutsui Sadatsugu Uesugi Kagetora Uesugi Tomosada Ujiie Naotomo Ujiie Yukihiro Usami Sadamitsu Yamagata Masakage Yamamoto Kansuke Yamanaka Shikanosuke Yasuke

Swordsmen	Hikita Bungoro Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi

Ninja, rogues and mercenaries	Fūma Kotarō Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Mochizuki Chiyome Ogurusu Nakamura Ohama Kagetaka Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun

Monks and other religious figures	Ankokuji Ekei Honganji Kennyo Honinbo Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Choro Shimozuma Chuko Shimozuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō

Onna-bugeisha	Ikeda Sen Kaihime Komatsuhime Maeda Matsu Ōhōri Tsuruhime Tachibana Ginchiyo

Other women	Asahihime Chacha Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Hosokawa Gracia Izumo no Okuni Kitsuno Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Nene Nōhime Oeyo Oichi Ohatsu Okaji no Kata Lady Kasuga Lady Saigō Lady Tsukiyama Senhime Sentōin Tokuhime

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