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[[File:Takehime-grave.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Takehime's grave at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]]
*''Born: [[1705]]''
*''Died: [[1772]]''
*''Japanese'': 竹姫 ''(Takehime)''
Takehime, or Princess Take, was an adopted daughter of both Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] and [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], and wife of [[Shimazu Tsugutoyo]], lord of [[Satsuma han]].
She was born in [[Kyoto]], the daughter of [[Dainagon]] [[Seikanji Hirosada]]<!--清閑寺凞定-->, and was brought at a very young age to [[Edo]] to meet her aunt, who was a concubine to Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. She was adopted by Tsunayoshi in [[1708]] (at age 3), and was engaged to [[Matsudaira Masakuni]], lord of [[Aizu han]], and then to Prince [[Arisugawa Masahito]], but both died before they were married. Tsunayoshi, along with [[Konoe Hiroko]] (wife of Tsunayoshi's heir [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]), then made a proposal to Shimazu Tsugutoyo, which was accepted. Tsugutoyo and Takehime were betrothed, and after Takehime was formally adopted by Tokugawa Yoshimune, the two were married in [[1729]]. She gave birth to a daughter, [[Kikuhime]], in [[1733]], and raised [[Shimazu Munenobu]] as her adopted son as well.
Tsugutoyo stepped down as ''daimyô'' in [[1746]], and was succeeded by Munenobu. Tsugutoyo then died in [[1760]].
Takehime died in [[1772]], at the age of 68. She is buried alongside Tsugutoyo and his other wives at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in [[Kagoshima]].
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==References==
*William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 94n151.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B3%B6%E6%B4%A5%E7%B6%99%E8%B1%8A-1080940 Shimazu Tsugutoyo]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/word/simadzu09.html Takehime]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Women]]
*''Born: [[1705]]''
*''Died: [[1772]]''
*''Japanese'': 竹姫 ''(Takehime)''
Takehime, or Princess Take, was an adopted daughter of both Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] and [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], and wife of [[Shimazu Tsugutoyo]], lord of [[Satsuma han]].
She was born in [[Kyoto]], the daughter of [[Dainagon]] [[Seikanji Hirosada]]<!--清閑寺凞定-->, and was brought at a very young age to [[Edo]] to meet her aunt, who was a concubine to Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. She was adopted by Tsunayoshi in [[1708]] (at age 3), and was engaged to [[Matsudaira Masakuni]], lord of [[Aizu han]], and then to Prince [[Arisugawa Masahito]], but both died before they were married. Tsunayoshi, along with [[Konoe Hiroko]] (wife of Tsunayoshi's heir [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]), then made a proposal to Shimazu Tsugutoyo, which was accepted. Tsugutoyo and Takehime were betrothed, and after Takehime was formally adopted by Tokugawa Yoshimune, the two were married in [[1729]]. She gave birth to a daughter, [[Kikuhime]], in [[1733]], and raised [[Shimazu Munenobu]] as her adopted son as well.
Tsugutoyo stepped down as ''daimyô'' in [[1746]], and was succeeded by Munenobu. Tsugutoyo then died in [[1760]].
Takehime died in [[1772]], at the age of 68. She is buried alongside Tsugutoyo and his other wives at the [[Shimazu clan]] cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in [[Kagoshima]].
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==References==
*William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 94n151.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B3%B6%E6%B4%A5%E7%B6%99%E8%B1%8A-1080940 Shimazu Tsugutoyo]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/word/simadzu09.html Takehime]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Women]]