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.
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*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.