Chiyohime

• Born: 1637
• Japanese: 千代姫 (Chiyohime)

Chiyohime was the wife of Tokugawa Mitsutomo (second lord of Owari han), and the daughter of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu & his concubine Ofuri-no-kata.

In 1652, she commissioned the construction of the Jishô-in Mausoleum to host memorial services for her mother. The mausoleum, which survives today at the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum, is a valuable example of early Edo period architecture.

References

• Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum pamphlet.
• Plaques on-site at Jishô-in Mausoleum at Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum.