Episode 381 - The Three Daughters of Azai, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, we cover the rest of the lives of Sugen'in, Joko'in, and Yodo-dono (and some other really fascinating incidental lives, like Hideyoshi's wife Kodai'in), and ask: what can we learn from these often overlooked narratives?

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1:26.9	Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 381, The Three Daughters of Azai, part two.
1:36.1	When we last left the three daughters of Azai Nagamasa and Lady Oichi, they had each entered into
1:42.1	the households as some of the most powerful men in Japan.
1:46.0	The eldest, Yodo-Dono, had become one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's thirteen concubines and
1:51.5	the only woman to bear him a child, Toyotomi Tsurumatsu, though the sickly boy would die within
1:57.9	a few years.
1:58.7	Still, the very fact that Yodono managed to do this,
2:02.6	while it raised some eyebrows, it also managed to secure a great deal of influence within the Toyotomi
2:08.2	family. The second daughter, Joel Koin, was married to Kyooku Takatsugu, a high-ranking
2:15.2	member of the inner circle of the Toyotomi clan, and an extremely
2:19.0	wealthy lord with substantial holdings in central Japan.
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