2023-09-03 04:00:00
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2023/09/03 13:00
After the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute, Hideyoshi remarried his younger sister Asahi to Ieyasu in order to get Ieyasu to respect him as a vassal. Koichiro Hamada, a writer and historian, said, “At the time, Princess Asahi, who was already in her 40s, had a husband, but it is said that Hideyoshi told her to return her to her husband, and divorced her. There are also rumors that he secretly purged his younger sisters who were connected, so he would probably do something as forcible as that.”
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Statue of Toyotomi Hideyoshi at Osaka Castle Toyokuni Shrine in Osaka City
Who is Hideyoshi’s sister, who is inconspicuous but who became Ieyasu’s lawful wife?
Princess Asahi (Asahi), who is going to marry Ieyasu Tokugawa (played by Jun Matsumoto), has appeared in the Taiga drama “What will Ieyasu do?” She is played by actor Maho Yamada. Then, what kind of woman was Asahihime? She is the younger sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of the world. She wasn’t a “princess” (daughter of a nobleman) from the beginning.
It is said that his father was Chikuami and his mother was Naka (later Omandokoro). Hideyoshi is said to be the son of Yaemon, a farmer, so Asahihime is Hideyoshi’s half-sister.
Asahi’s first wife was a local samurai from Owari. This local samurai was called Saji Hinata no kami. If Hideyoshi had not become a man who might seize the supremacy of the world following the death of his lord Nobunaga, Asahi and her husband, Saji Hinata no kami, would have been able to live in peace together. But that didn’t happen. In 1584, Hideyoshi came into conflict with Tokugawa Ieyasu. He will fight in Komaki and Nagakute. In the end, they made peace with each other, but it was not enough to make Ieyasu completely obey them. At the time of reconciliation, Ieyasu sent Ieyasu’s second son Ogii (later Hideyasu Yuki) and the son of his vassal as hostages. Therefore, you can see that the reconciliation was Hideyoshi’s superiority.
As a sign of reconciliation, Hideyoshi made Asahihime enter the Tokugawa family.
Ieyasu and Hideyoshi’s reconciliation negotiations continued following that, but it was Oda Nobunaga’s second son, Nobuo, who mediated them. In fact, even following the Battle of Komaki Nagakute, Hideyoshi intended to defeat Ieyasu with military force. In November 1585, he announced that he would run for election next spring (around January 1586) to avenge Ieyasu. That’s because Ieyasu refused the new hostage submission order. It turns out that Hideyoshi was not afraid of Ieyasu.
In Komaki-Nagakute, Hideyoshi’s army is said to have had 100,000 troops (there are various theories), but Ieyasu’s army had over 10,000. Even if 100,000 was exaggerated, there was an overwhelming difference in military power. However, Hideyoshi’s “Ieyasu subjugation” is canceled. On November 29th, 13th year of Tensho, a big earthquake (Tensho Great Earthquake) occurred. The Kinai region also suffered great damage. Therefore, it is no longer regarding “Ieyasu’s subjugation”. From then on, Hideyoshi approached Ieyasu not with hard-line measures, but with appeasement measures.
The symbol of this is Hideyoshi’s younger sister Asahi’s marriage to Ieyasu. Regarding the marriage of Asahi to Ieyasu, it is written in “Tokugawa Jikki” (a history book of the Tokugawa family compiled by the Tokugawa shogunate) that “Kanpaku (Hideyoshi), Shigete, and Nobuo should be considered,” so Hideyoshi was Oda. It seems that he decided following consulting with Nobuo.
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