Post by crimsongriffin28 on Jan 12, 2011 4:24:47 GMT -5
There's a promising looking exhibition being held at the Edo Tokyo museum on Lady Go and other women of the Warring States period. Go's life falls just within the SCAs purview as well.
www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/special/now/index.html
Here's the webpage blurb. Apparently there's an NHK drama of the same going on - had no idea as I can't stomach Japanese tv anymore...
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Go (Sugen-in) was born in 1573 to the Daimyo of northern Omi province, AZAI Nagamasa, and the younger sister of ODA Nobunaga, Ichi. She was the youngest of what became known as ‘the three Azai sisters', the eldest being Chacha (Yodo) and the second eldest Hatsu. Go's father died soon after she was born and both her mother, Ichi, and her stepfather, Shibata Katsuie, who was a Daimyo from Echizen Province, died after defeat in battle when she was still only ten years old.
Having survived defeat in two castles, she married SAJI Kazunari of Owari Province at a tender age. However, this marriage was soon dissolved on the orders of HASHIBA (later TOYOTOMI) Hideyoshi. Next she married Hideyoshi's nephew, TOYOTOMI (Kokichi) Hidekatsu only to lose him in battle. Finally, in 1595 she married TOKUGAWA Ieyasu's third son, Hidetada, who later went on to become the second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The couple had two sons and five daughters; one son, Iemitsu, became the third Shogun while the eldest daughter, Sen-Hime, married TOYOTOMI Hideyori and the fifth daughter, Masako, married Emperor Gomizuno-o. Go looked on as her husband and children played major historical roles before finally passing away in Edo Castle in 1626, at the age of fifty-four.
It may be said that as a woman, Go led one of the most checkered lives in Japanese history; she suffered defeat in two castles and married three times, but in the end she became wife to the second Shogun and mother of the third. Her uncle was ODA Nobunaga, her brother-in-law, TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi, her father-in-law, TOKUGAWA Ieyasu and her son-in-law was an Emperor; these were the most powerful men of their times and she can be described as being a super-celebrity of the Warring States period. If we look at the people of that period through her eyes, we may be able to discern a different aspect of history.
This exhibition is being held in conjunction with the 2011 Taiga Drama series on NHK television, ‘Go: Himetachi no Sengoku', which will depict the life of Go and the other ladies of the Warring States period. The exhibition will present items connected with the people surrounding these ladies and other historical data in an effort to create a better understanding of Go's tempestuous life.
Before closing, we would like to offer our sincerest gratitude to everybody who unstintingly lent us the priceless exhibits on display here as well as everybody else through whose support and cooperation this exhibition was made possible.
Crimsongriffin
www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/special/now/index.html
Here's the webpage blurb. Apparently there's an NHK drama of the same going on - had no idea as I can't stomach Japanese tv anymore...
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Go (Sugen-in) was born in 1573 to the Daimyo of northern Omi province, AZAI Nagamasa, and the younger sister of ODA Nobunaga, Ichi. She was the youngest of what became known as ‘the three Azai sisters', the eldest being Chacha (Yodo) and the second eldest Hatsu. Go's father died soon after she was born and both her mother, Ichi, and her stepfather, Shibata Katsuie, who was a Daimyo from Echizen Province, died after defeat in battle when she was still only ten years old.
Having survived defeat in two castles, she married SAJI Kazunari of Owari Province at a tender age. However, this marriage was soon dissolved on the orders of HASHIBA (later TOYOTOMI) Hideyoshi. Next she married Hideyoshi's nephew, TOYOTOMI (Kokichi) Hidekatsu only to lose him in battle. Finally, in 1595 she married TOKUGAWA Ieyasu's third son, Hidetada, who later went on to become the second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The couple had two sons and five daughters; one son, Iemitsu, became the third Shogun while the eldest daughter, Sen-Hime, married TOYOTOMI Hideyori and the fifth daughter, Masako, married Emperor Gomizuno-o. Go looked on as her husband and children played major historical roles before finally passing away in Edo Castle in 1626, at the age of fifty-four.
It may be said that as a woman, Go led one of the most checkered lives in Japanese history; she suffered defeat in two castles and married three times, but in the end she became wife to the second Shogun and mother of the third. Her uncle was ODA Nobunaga, her brother-in-law, TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi, her father-in-law, TOKUGAWA Ieyasu and her son-in-law was an Emperor; these were the most powerful men of their times and she can be described as being a super-celebrity of the Warring States period. If we look at the people of that period through her eyes, we may be able to discern a different aspect of history.
This exhibition is being held in conjunction with the 2011 Taiga Drama series on NHK television, ‘Go: Himetachi no Sengoku', which will depict the life of Go and the other ladies of the Warring States period. The exhibition will present items connected with the people surrounding these ladies and other historical data in an effort to create a better understanding of Go's tempestuous life.
Before closing, we would like to offer our sincerest gratitude to everybody who unstintingly lent us the priceless exhibits on display here as well as everybody else through whose support and cooperation this exhibition was made possible.
Crimsongriffin