Nō-hime
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kichō, Nōhime, Nō Hime, No-hime, Nohime, No Hime, Lady Nō
, also known as was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Nōhime (also known as Kichō)
- Person.image
- Nōhime Gifu Castle.jpg
- Person.caption
- Portrait of Nō in Gifu Castle
- Person.birth_date
- 1530s (?)
- Person.birth_place
- Japan
- Person.death_date
- 1612 (?)
- Person.death_place
- Kyoto, Japan
- Person.known_for
- Marriage to Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period
- Person.spouse
- Oda Nobunaga
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Japan
- Father
- Saitō Dōsan
- Sibling
- Saitō Yoshitatsu
- Image
- Nōhime Gifu Castle.jpg
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- date of death
- 1612-08-05
- date of birth
- 1535-00-00
- relative
- Oda Nobutada
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Profile
- Name
- Marriage to Nobunaga
- Anecdotes
- Life
- Information about Nōhime after that
- Early death theory
- Divorce theory
- 'Died in the Honnō-ji Incident' theory
- Longevity theory
- In fiction
- Notes
- References
, also known as was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was the daughter of Saitō Dōsan, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Mino Province, and the lawful wife of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province.
== Profile == There are very few reliable historical documents about Nōhime, and little is known about her real identity. Shinchō Kōki, which is considered to be of historical value, contains only a brief description of her marriage, after which her name does not appear at all.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nō-hime” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.