Died 1661 | Name Irohahime Masamune Aunts Senshihime | |
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Parents Date Masamune, Megohime Masamune Uncles Masamichi Date, Hideo Date Similar People Date Masamune, Megohime Masamune, Date Terumune | ||
Grandparents Date Terumune, Yoshihime |
Irohahime (五郎八姫, August 2, 1594 – June 4, 1661) was the first daughter of Masamune Date and Megohime, and for some time, the wife of Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa. Her Buddhist name is Tenrin'in (天麟院).
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Life
Irohahime was born in Jurakudai, and she was Masamune's first conjugal child. Although the couple would obviously have been longing for a boy to take over the Date family, the baby born to them was a girl. As Masamune was expecting a son, he personally chose a masculine name. After she was born, however, the name was kept, but pronounced more femininely.
Having moved from place to place, from Jurakudai to Fushimi, and then to Osaka, Irohahime was engaged to Ieyasu's son, Tadateru, on January 20, 1599, as part of Ieyasu's strategy for strengthening relationships with powerful daimyō. In 1603, she moved from Fushimi to Edo, and on December 24, 1606, she married Tadateru. Though the two got along, they had no children. In 1616, she divorced Tadateru when he was stripped of his position, and returned to her father, Masamune, thereafter living in Sendai.
As she lived in the Nishikan (the west annex) of the main castle in this period, she was also called Lady Nishikan (西館殿). She died on June 4, 1661, at the age of 68. Her grave is in Tenrinin Temple in Matsushima.
Legends
In popular culture
She makes in an appearance in the NHK taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune, and she is portrayed by Yasuko Sawaguchi.