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[[Image:HosokawaToro.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A stone lantern marking the grave of Hosokawa Gracia and her husband [[Hosokawa Tadaoki]], at [[Koto-in|Kôtô-in]], a subtemple of [[Daitoku-ji]], in Kyoto.]]
[[Image:HosokawaToro.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A stone lantern marking the grave of Hosokawa Gracia and her husband [[Hosokawa Tadaoki]], at [[Koto-in|Kôtô-in]], a subtemple of [[Daitoku-ji]], in Kyoto.]]
* ''Birth: [[1563]]''
* ''Death: [[1600]]''
* ''Death: [[1600]]''
* ''Other name: Tamako'' (玉子), ''Donna Gracia''
* ''Other name: Akechi Tama'' ([[明智]] 玉), ''Donna Gracia''
* ''Distinction: Christian; Wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki''
* ''Distinction: Christian; Wife of Hosokawa Tadaoki''
* ''Japanese'': [[細川]]ガラシャ ''(Hosokawa Garasha)''
* ''Japanese'': [[細川]] ガラシャ ''(Hosokawa Garasha)''
Hosokawa Gracia was the wife of ''daimyô'' [[Hosokawa Tadaoki]] (Sansai), and is famous as a prominent Christian convert of the late [[Sengoku period]].
3rd daughter of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and was married to [[Hosokawa Tadaoki]]. When her father killed [[Oda Nobunaga]], Gracia was for a time confined and was only taken back by her husband thanks to the intervention of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi]]. According to tradition, Gracia was introduced to Christianity by [[Takayama Ukon]], and pursued it while Tadaoki was away fighting in Korea (1592-93, 1597-98), eventually being baptized. In 1600 she was left in [[Osaka castle]] by her husband as one of a number of wives to act as hostages by notable [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] loyalists. Soon afterwards, [[Ishida Mitsunari]] attempted to seize the women to influence their husbands, and in the attempt Gracia was killed - either on her orders or those of her husband.
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