Japanese concubines

Japanese concubine (1836-1907)

or , also known as , was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.

Japanese lady-in-waiting; concubine of Emperor Meiji; mother of Emperor Taishō

Japanese poet and author

Japanese consort

(1867-1947); fifth concubine of Emperor Meiji

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubine

was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was a concubine of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.

Japanese concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese noblewoman

first concubine of Emperor Meiji

fourth concubine of Emperor Meiji

second concubine of Emperor Meiji

Japanese noblewoman (1555-1637)