Asahi no kata

Portrait of Asahi-hime, younger sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Asahi no kata (朝日の方, 1543 – February 18, 1590) was a Japanese aristocrat of the Sengoku period.[1] She was a half-sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu, two of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan.[2] Apart from "Asahi no kata", she is also known as Suruga Gozen (駿河御前) and Asahi-hime (朝日姫), though none of these are personal names, which roughly translate to "the person of Asahi", "the Lady Suruga", or "Princess Asahi", respectively.

  1. ^ Ackroyd, Joyce (July 14, 2014). Told Round a Brushwood Fire. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5304-5.
  2. ^ Venning, Timothy (June 30, 2023). A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume III Early Modern. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-86452-6.

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