Katō Tsune

Kaatō Tsune

Native name	加藤つね
Born	16th century
Died	Unknown date
Allegiance	Okumura clan Maeda clan
Battles/wars	Siege of Suemori
Spouse(s)	Okumura Nagatomi

Katō Tsune (加藤つね), Shōju-in (松寿院) or Otsune (お安) was a Japanese female warrior (Onna-musha) from the Sengoku period. She came from the Katō clan and was the wife of the samurai warlord . She helped her family and the Maeda troops resist Sassa Narimasa at the siege of Suemori Castle by providing food and medical aid to injured warriors and arming herself with a naginata to fight beside them during the conflict.^[1]^[2]

Siege of Suemori castle[]

Otsune patrols the inside of the castle with a naginata, cheers up the morale of castle soldiers, defend the castle walls from the attack of Narimasa troops consisting of 15,000 men and resisted until the arrival of the troops of Maeda Toshiie.^[2] Otsune's two eldest sons participated in the defense at a very young age. After the defenders' victory, Toshiie has become the most powerful daimyō in the Kaga (now Ishikawa Prefecture) region of Japan. Otsune was vital to the success of the castle's defense, Toshiie thanked her for her courageous act and received financial aid from the Maeda clan.^[3]

Family[]

Father: Katō Yosaburo
Husband: Okumura Nagatomi (1541 - July 27, 1624)

Children:
- Okumura Yasuhide (1571 - January 30, 1644)
- Okumura Haru (1568 - May 20, 1620)
- Okumura Haruyuru

References[]

^ Turnbull, Stephen (2012-01-20). Samurai Women 1184–1877. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781846039522.
^ ^a ^b 石川県. "紙本著色圓智院妙浄（篠原一孝夫人）画像・紙本著色奥村永福夫妻画像". 石川県 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-05-11.
^ Turnbull, Stephen (2012-06-20). Samurai Heraldry. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781782000143.

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Three major daimyō	Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shōgun	Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada
Emperor	Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei
Other daimyō	Amago Tsunehisa Amago Haruhisa Asakura Yoshikage Ashina Moriuji Akechi Mitsuhide Azai Nagamasa Chōsokabe Motochika Date Terumune Date Masamune Hatakeyama Yoshitaka Hōjō Sōun Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujiyasu Imagawa Yoshimoto Imagawa Ujizane Isshiki Yoshimichi Itō Yoshisuke Kitabatake Tomonori Matsunaga Hisahide Miyoshi Nagayoshi Mogami Yoshiaki Mōri Motonari Ōuchi Yoshitaka Ōuchi Yoshinaga Ōtomo Sōrin Rokkaku Yoshikata Ryūzōji Takanobu Saitō Dōsan Saitō Yoshitatsu Satomi Yoshitaka Sanada Yukitaka Sanada Masayuki Satake Yoshishige Sagara Yoshihi Shimazu Yoshihisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Takeda Nobutora Takeda Shingen Uesugi Kagekatsu Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Norimasa Ukita Naoie Uragami Munekage Yamana Toyokuni Yamana Suketoyo
Swordsmen	Marume Nagayoshi Hikita Bungorō Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Sanada Yukimura Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi Shinmen Munisai Itō Ittōsai
Ninja, rogues and mercenaries	Mochizuki Chiyome Fūma Kotarō Hatsume no Tsubone Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Nakamura Chōbei Ohama Kagetaka Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun Umemura Sawano
Monks and other religious figures	Ankokuji Ekei Hongan-ji Kennyo Hon'inbō Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Chōrō Shimozuma Chūkō Shimozuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō
Female castellans	Akai Teruko Ashikaga Ujihime Chacha Ii Naotora Jukei-ni Miyohime Munakata Saikaku Nene Onamihime Otazu no Kata Otsuya no Kata Seishin-ni Tachibana Ginchiyo Tōshōin
Female warriors	Fujishiro Gozen Ichikawa no Tsubone Ikeda Sen Kaihime Kamehime Katakura Kita Katō Tsune Komatsuhime Kushihashi Teru Maeda Matsu Myōki Myōrin Numata Jakō Ōhōri Tsuruhime Okaji no Kata Okyō no Kata Omasa Oni Gozen Shigashi Shirai no Tsubone Ueno Tsuruhime Yuki no Kata
Other women	Lady Acha Asahihime Lady Chaa Chikurin-in Lady Goryū Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Tsumaki Hiroko Lady Hayakawa Hosokawa Gracia Irohahime Izumo no Okuni Lady Kasuga Kitsuno Konoe Sakiko Kōzōsu Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Megohime Lady Myōkyū Naitō Julia Nōhime Odai no Kata Oeyo Oichi Ohatsu Lady Ōkurakyo Ōmandokoro Ono Otsū Ōtomo-Nata Jezebel Rikei Lady Saigō Lady Sanjō Seikōin Senhime Sentōin Tobai-in Toyotomi Sadako Tomo Lady Toida Tokuhime Lady Tsukiyama Yamauchi Chiyo Yoshihime
Foreign people in Japan	William Adams Gaspar Coelho Luís Fróis Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn Julia Ota Soga Seikan Wakita Naokata Wang Zhi Francis Xavier Yasuke
See also	List of samurai from the Sengoku period

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Katō Tsune

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Siege of Suemori castle[]

Family[]

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References[]