Lady Chaa
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Lady Chaa (茶阿局, Chaa no Tsubone) (d. July 30, 1621) was a concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. She lived in Tōtōmi Province.[1][2] Her Buddhist name was Unkoin.
Lady Chaa is said to be the daughter of a foundryman. When the daikan (a local official) had her husband killed, she appealed to Ieyasu, who was then the lord of Hamamatsu Castle; as a result, he punished the daikan.
Lady Chaa subsequently became a concubine of Ieyasu.[3] She was not only a widow when Ieyasu took her in but she also had a child,[3] which was identified as a daughter called Ohachi. In 1592, bore him a son Matsudaira Tadateru. She was also the mother of Matsudairamatsu Chiyo. An account cited that Lady Chaa was part of Osaka Castle's Genji circle and received a copy of Kenji monogatari no okori from Keifukuin.[4]
Lady Chaa's grave is at Sōkei-ji, a Buddhist temple in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Her Buddhist name is Satoru'in
Family[]
- Husband: Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Sons:
Notes[]
- ^ Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588
- ^ McClain, James. (1991). The Cambridge History of Japan Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Seigle, Cecilia Segawa; Chance, Linda H. (2014). Ooku, the Secret World of the Shogun's Women. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. pp. Table 1b. ISBN 978-1-60497-872-8.
- ^ Watanabe, Masako (2014). "The Samurai and Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji)". Bulletin of Detroit Institute of Arts. 88: 69.
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