Ōmandokoro

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Portrait of Ōmandokoro, later known as Tenzui'in

Ōmandokoro (大政所, 1516 – 29 August 1592) or Ōmandokoro Naka was the mother of the Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1] She was also the mother of Asahi no kata, Tomo and Toyotomi Hidenaga.

Biography[edit]

It is said that Ōmandokoro was born in Gokisu-mura, Owari Province. She was married to Kinoshita Yaemon, an Ashigaru of the Oda clan. They had two sons, Tomo and Hideyoshi. She remarried when her husband died. There is some controversy whether Asahi no kata and Hidenaga were the children of her first or second husband.

There are several accounts describing her role in Hideyoshi's court. One source cited that due to her serious illness in 1588, Hideyoshi ordered ceremonies at major Shinto and Buddhist temples at Ise, Kasuga, Gion, Atago, Kitano, Kiyomizudera, Kofukuji, and Kuramadera.[2] In 1591, she pleaded clemency for three senior Daitokuji abbots, who Hideyoshi intended to crucify.[3]

Ōmandokoro and her daughter Asahi were also sent as hostages in 1586 to Tokugawa Ieyasu when Hideyoshi summoned him to Osaka upon his promotion to the rank of Gon-Chunagon.[4][5] This event showed that she was not very well known by her captors. One of the warriors, Honda Sakuzaemon Shigetsugu, was said to have advised Ieyasu: "You have to be careful, my lord, for there are a lot of elderly ladies-in-waiting about the Court, and Hideyoshi may quite likely have picked out one of them and sent her as substitute for his mother."[6]

She died in 1592. After her death, she received the Buddhist name Tenzui'in (天瑞院).[citation needed]

Descendants[edit]

Imperial family[edit]

Works in which Ōmandokoro appeared[edit]

Honours[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Robinson, Kenneth R. (2013). A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-231-16370-5.
  2. ^ Watsky, Andrew Mark; Watsky, Andrew Mark (2004). Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-295-98327-2.
  3. ^ Levine, Gregory P. A.; Levine, Associate Professor of Japanese Art Gregory P. (2005). Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 113. ISBN 0-295-98540-2.
  4. ^ Winkler, Lawrence (2016). Samurai Road. Bellatrix. ISBN 978-0-9916941-8-1.
  5. ^ Sadler, A. L. (2009). Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-1654-2.
  6. ^ Sadler, A. L. (2015). The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Oxon: Routledge. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-415-56498-4.


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