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*''Born: [[1773]]/6/21''
*''Died: [[1844]]/11/10''
*''Other Names'': [[近衛]]寔子　''(Konoe Tadako)'', 篤姫 ''(Atsuhime)'', 茂姫 ''(Shigehime)''
*''Japanese'': 広大院 ''(Koudai-in)''

Kôdai-in was the chief wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]].
 
She was the daughter of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of [[Satsuma han]]. In [[1776]], at the age of 4, she was engaged to Matsudaira Toyochiyo of the [[Hitotsubashi family]], who would later become Tokugawa Ienari; they were married in [[1789]]. She gave birth to her first child, Atsunosuke, in [[1797]], but he died when he was only age 4.

In [[1842]], she was promoted to [[court ranks|Junior First Rank (従一位)]]. She died two years later at age 72.

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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%BA%83%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%A2 Kôdai-in]." ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.

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