Yae-hime
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- Japanese: 八重姫 (Yae hime)
Yae-hime, also known as Yôsen-in, was an adopted daughter of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, and wife of Tokugawa Yoshizane of the Mito Tokugawa clan. They married in 1698.[1]
Following the death of her husband Yoshizane in 1709, she took on the name Yôsen-in.
References
- Okazaki Hironori, "Kyôhô-ki Ii-ke no zôtô girei to bakusei/hansei," in Asao Naohiro (ed.), Fudai daimyô Ii ke no girei, Hikone Castle Museum (2004), 132.
- ↑ Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan 1350-1850, 139.
