Konoe Hiroko was the ''[[midaidokoro]]'' (principal wife) of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and daughter of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]].
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Konoe Hiroko was the ''[[midaidokoro]]'' (principal wife) of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], and daughter of [[Konoe Motohiro]] and [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]. She had two brothers, Iehiro and Nobuna.
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==References==
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n60.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 313n60.
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*Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 9.