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*''Other Names: Okiya-no-kata, Teruko, Sakyô-no-tsubone'' | *''Other Names: Okiya-no-kata, Teruko, Sakyô-no-tsubone'' | ||
| + | *''Japanese'': 月光院 ''(Gekkou-in)'' | ||
Gekkô-in was a daughter of Shôda Gentetsu Akinori, consort of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and mother of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]]. | Gekkô-in was a daughter of Shôda Gentetsu Akinori, consort of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and mother of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]]. | ||
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| + | She was the third of Ienobu's concubines to give him a son, after [[Okomu no kata]] and [[Osume no kata]]. However, these two previous boys died at the ages of two months and two years, respectively. Gekkô-in's son Nabematsu survived to be named shogun at the age of three, upon Ienobu's death in [[1712]]. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n94. | *Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n94. | ||
| + | *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), 126, 136. | ||
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[[Category:Edo Period]] | [[Category:Edo Period]] | ||
[[Category:Women]] | [[Category:Women]] | ||
Revision as of 12:54, 1 October 2017
- Other Names: Okiya-no-kata, Teruko, Sakyô-no-tsubone
- Japanese: 月光院 (Gekkou-in)
Gekkô-in was a daughter of Shôda Gentetsu Akinori, consort of Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu, and mother of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu.
She was the third of Ienobu's concubines to give him a son, after Okomu no kata and Osume no kata. However, these two previous boys died at the ages of two months and two years, respectively. Gekkô-in's son Nabematsu survived to be named shogun at the age of three, upon Ienobu's death in 1712.
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n94.
- 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), 126, 136.
