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*''Other Names: Lady Ichii, Ten'ei-in''
*''Born: [[1666]]/3/26''
*''Other Names'': 天英院 ''(Ten'ei-in)''
*''Japanese'': [[近衛]]熙子 ''(Konoe Hiroko)''
Konoe Hiroko was the ''[[midaidokoro]]'' (principal wife) of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and daughter of [[Konoe Motohiro]].
Konoe Hiroko was the ''[[midaidokoro]]'' (principal wife) of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and daughter of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]. She had two brothers, [[Konoe Iehiro]] and [[Konoe Nobuna|Nobuna]].
The shogunate proposed Hiroko's marriage to Tokugawa Tsunatoyo on [[1679]]/6/26, and they were married soon afterward, with Hiroko traveling to [[Edo]] with only a few companions, a nurse, and a few hundred guards (but without her parents), as was the custom.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 12.</ref>
Her first two children died in infancy, one a girl born in [[1681]] who lived for only two months, and the other a boy, born in [[1698]], who lived only a few hours.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 13.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n60.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n60.
*Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 9.
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