Hello everyone, today I would like to introduce to you the wife of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third generation shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Takaji Takako. She had a noble status, but she was widowed all her life. Next, I will give you a detailed introduction to her life.

Hello everyone, today I would like to introduce to you Tokugawa Shogunate The third generation shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu 's main wife, Takaji Takako, she has a noble status, but she has been widowed all her life. Next, I will give you a detailed introduction An introduction to her life.

Takaji Takako was born in the Takaji family, one of the five regents (the five regents refer to the five major clans in Japan, and the regents mean the highest positions in the government, similar to the regents in our country), so She grew up in fine clothes and fine food since she was a child. When Takaji Takako grew up, he not only had outstanding appearance, but also had good manners. In a previous article, I once introduced to you the daughter of the samurai family who married the emperor, Tokugawa Hidetada (the second generation shogun) daughter Tokugawa Kazuko . Because the Tokugawa shogunate had just been established at that time and its foundation was not yet solid, they needed the authority of the emperor to support it. The best solution at that time was to marry the daughter of the Tokugawa family to the then Emperor Mizuo to consolidate their respective positions. After Tokugawa Kazuko married into the court, Emperor Gomizuo decided to select a suitable woman from the public family (the public family mainly refers to members of the royal family, the court, and nobles) to marry the unmarried man at the time in order to promote the concept of the unity of public and military affairs. The third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. Emperor Gomizuo selected Takashi Takako, the daughter of Takaji Nobusa, after thousands of choices, and set the wedding date in December of the same year when Tokugawa Iemitsu succeeded Tokugawa general. Although Takako Takashi and Tokugawa Iemitsu had moved into Edo Castle early, their wedding was not officially held until two years later.

Takako Takaji was not only of noble birth, but also very beautiful. However, she received public education since she was a child, which was completely different from the rules of the samurai family of the Tokugawa shogunate. It took her a long time to adapt to the life of the Tokugawa family. Not only that, Tokugawa Iemitsu has always treated his wife with an indifferent attitude. Therefore, not long after Takashi Takashi married, she was expelled from Ooku and began to live alone, and her title was also changed from Godaisho to Nakanomaruden, which was a great humiliation for her. . At that time, some people speculated whether Tokugawa Iemitsu was a womanizer, because for a long time, Tokugawa Iemitsu had only one wife, Takako Takaji, and because the couple had been separated for many years, Tokugawa Iemitsu had a long life. Time has no heirs. It was not until the emergence of Eikoin that the rumor of Tokugawa Iemitsu being a lecherous person was solved. In order to let everyone better understand this period of history, I will give you a brief introduction to Eikoin. Eikoin was originally the daughter of a Japanese noble, but due to her biological mother's low status, she was fostered in a temple since she was a child. She became a nun at a young age. By chance, Tokugawa Iemitsu met Eikoin and fell in love with her at first sight. He forced her to return to secular life and marry him as his concubine.

In the next few years, Tokugawa Iemitsu took in several more concubines from humble backgrounds, and then these concubines successively gave birth to many children for Tokugawa Iemitsu. Among Tokugawa Iemitsu's many side chambers, there was one who was Takaji Takako's maid, named Asha. Takako Takaji was already forty-six years old when this maid was favored. I wonder how she felt when she found out about this. During Tokugawa Iemitsu's lifetime, Takashi Takashi was always tabooed and ignored, and everyone in Ouchi did not respect her. However, when her younger brother Takashi Shinpei relied on her to come to Edo, Tokugawa Iemitsu not only A grand banquet was held for him and he was given a large salary. A few years later, Tokugawa Iemitsu passed away due to illness, and Takashi became a monk and became a Buddhist monk. After the death of Tokugawa Iemitsu, all that was left to Takako Takaji were fifty taels of gold and tea sets. After the death of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the position of shogun was inherited by his second son Tokugawa Ietsuna. Although Tokugawa Ietsuna was very filial and treated Takashi Takako with the same standards as his biological mother, he was not her biological son after all, so when Takaji Takako passed away, Tokugawa Ietsuna could not mourn him.

A few years later, Takashi Takaji relied on to go to Luo (I checked on the Internet. The so-called "Shangluo" refers to the act of moving towards Kyoto, Japan. The capital of Japan at that time was called Kyoto. Since our country has been in the Zhou Dynasty After that, most of the capitals were built in Luoyang , so the Japanese also referred to their capital as "Luo".) Chance returned to his hometown from O'ao, but her father Takaji Nobusa died three years ago. . Four years later, Takashi Takashi went to Kyoto again to meet Emperor Gomizuo. In 1674 AD, Takashi Takashi died at the age of seventy-two.

Takako Takaji came from a famous family. If she had not married Tokugawa Iemitsu, I think she could have lived a good life relying on her outstanding family background. Later, some people defended Tokugawa Iemitsu. They said that Tokugawa Iemitsu grew up in a Tokugawa family with serious internal strife since he was a child, so he hated women who wanted to get close to him. In his eyes, this famous lady from Kyoto No exception. No matter what the real situation is, this person has passed away, leaving only endless regrets.

The son of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the fifth-generation general Tokugawa Tsunayoshi 's Odaisho Takaji Nobuko is the granddaughter of Takaji Nobuho (Takaji Takako's brother), which is also the grand-niece of Takaji Takako. In a previous article, I introduced Nobuko Takaji to you. If you are interested, you can go to my collection to find it.

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