Kamehime

Kamehime (亀姫, 27 July 1560 – 1 August 1625) was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period. She was the eldest daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu with his first wife, Lady Tsukiyama.[1]

She married Okudaira Nobumasa.[2] The marriage was arranged as a reward for Nobumasa, who had proven himself as the guardian of Nagashino Castle.[3] It is said that her dowry included one of the twenty-one prized writing boxes crafted by Koami masters.[4] She is known to have acted actively in the siege of Nagashino.[5] Kamehime helped her husband and send Torii Suneemon on the mission to cross the enemy army to request aid to her father, Ieyasu in Okazaki and defended the Nagashino castle.[6]

After Ieyasu's death she had a large part in the overthrow of Honda Masazumi, whom she disliked.[5]

In 1625, Kamehime died at age 66. Her Buddhist name was Seitokuin and her remains were buried in Kokoku-ji Temple.

Family

Legacy

Since April 2008, Kamehime has been characterized as a navigator for a municipal administration program produced in Shinshiro City, Aichi Prefecture. The street in front of Kokoku-ji Temple, where her grave is located, has been maintained as "Kamehime-dori" following the redevelopment work in front of Shinshiro Station.

References
  1. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. 1997. p. 379. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  2. Papinot, Edmond (1909). Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan: With 300 Illustrations, 18 Appendixes and Several Maps. Librairie Sansaisha. p. 667.
  3. Findlen, Paula (1 March 2021). Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-05572-7.
  4. N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; Watt, James C. Y.; Ford, Barbara Brennan (1991). East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 254. ISBN 0-87099-622-3.
  5. Sadler, A. L. (2010). The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Routledge. ISBN 978-1136924705. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  6. Pitelka, Morgan (2015). Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824857349. Retrieved 10 October 2017.


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