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Mother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ōmandokoro (大政所, 1516 – 29 August 1592) or Ōmandokoro Naka was the mother of the Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1] She was also the mother of Asahi no kata, Tomo and Toyotomi Hidenaga.
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It is said that Ōmandokoro was born in Gokisu-mura, Owari Province. She was married to Kinoshita Yaemon, an Ashigaru of the Oda clan. They had two children, Tomo and Hideyoshi. She remarried when her husband died. There is some controversy whether Asahi no kata and Hidenaga were the children of her first or second husband.
There are several accounts describing her role in Hideyoshi's court. One source cited that due to her serious illness in 1588, Hideyoshi ordered ceremonies at major Shinto and Buddhist temples at Ise, Kasuga, Gion, Atago, Kitano, Kiyomizudera, Kofukuji, and Kuramadera.[2] In 1591, she pleaded clemency for three senior Daitokuji abbots, who Hideyoshi intended to crucify.[3]
Ōmandokoro and her daughter Asahi were also sent as hostages in 1586 to Tokugawa Ieyasu when Hideyoshi summoned him to Osaka upon his promotion to the rank of Gon-Chunagon.[4][5] This event showed that she was not very well known by her captors. One of the warriors, Honda Sakuzaemon Shigetsugu, was said to have advised Ieyasu: "You have to be careful, my lord, for there are a lot of elderly ladies-in-waiting about the Court, and Hideyoshi may quite likely have picked out one of them and sent her as substitute for his mother."[6]
She died in 1592. After her death, she received the Buddhist name Tenzui'in (天瑞院).[citation needed]
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