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Chiyohime was the wife of [[Tokugawa Mitsutomo]] (third lord of [[Owari han]]), and the daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] & his concubine [[Ofuri-no-kata (d. 1640)|Ofuri-no-kata]].
Chiyohime was the wife of [[Tokugawa Mitsutomo]] (third lord of [[Owari han]]), and the daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] & his concubine [[Ofuri-no-kata (d. 1640)|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.
She was married to Mitsutomo in [[1638]], when she was two years old (by the [[Age Calculation|traditional Japanese count]]).<ref>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'', Brill (2017), 124-125.</ref>
In [[1652]], Chiyohime 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.
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*Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum pamphlet.
*Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum pamphlet.
*Plaques on-site at Jishô-in Mausoleum at Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum.
*Plaques on-site at Jishô-in Mausoleum at Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum.
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