# Akohime

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Akohime 阿古姫 Personal life Parent(s) Chōsokabe Motochika Lady Motochika (Lady Nana) Occupation Retainer of samurai clan Military service Unit Chōsokabe clan

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**Akohime** (阿古姫) was a Japanese noble woman from the [Chōsokabe clan](/source/Ch%C5%8Dsokabe_clan) during the [Sengoku period](/source/Sengoku_period) to the early [Edo period](/source/Edo_period). She was the daughter of [Chōsokabe Motochika](/source/Ch%C5%8Dsokabe_Motochika), the daimyō of [Tosa Province](/source/Tosa_Province) in [Shikoku](/source/Shikoku). She was the last notable survivor of the clan after the [Siege of Osaka](/source/Siege_of_Osaka); being responsible for continuing the Chōsokabe's lineage in [Sendai domain](/source/Sendai_Domain) when she became retainer of [Date Masamune](/source/Date_Masamune).

## Biography

Akohime was the daughter of Chōsokabe Motochika, known for having unified the island of Shikoku. She was also the sister of [Chōsokabe Morichika](/source/Ch%C5%8Dsokabe_Morichika) and wife of [Satake Chikanao](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satake_Chikanao&action=edit&redlink=1), a retainer of the Chōsokabe, and bore two sons which would later be known as Igarashi Motonari e Shibata Tomomoto.

In 1615, during the Summer Campaign of the [Siege of Ōsaka](/source/Siege_of_Osaka), Akohime accompanied the Chōsokabe army who were allies of the Toyotomi clan in the fight against the Tokugawa clan. Akohime, Chikanao and Chōsokabe Morichika enter Ōsaka Castle, but the Toyotomi lost the battle while Chikanao was killed in action. When Ōsaka Castle fell, Akohime and her two sons were captured by soldiers under the command of [Date Masamune](/source/Date_Masamune), the head of the Sendai domain. Masamune spared the lives of Akohime and her sons, after which Akohime served as a personal maid of the Date family under the name of Chūjō.

## Chōsokabe influence in Sendai

The lands of the Chōsokabe clan had been confiscated after the end of the Siege of Osaka, but Akohime who was spared from death used her influence to continue the Chosokabe lineage. Akohime was well-educated and articulate, so she was trusted by Masamune and served him into his later years.

Because of Akohime's efforts, each of her sons was adopted by a senior vassal and both became successors to their respective adoptive parents. Her sons also became servants of the family. Later, her second son, Motomaru, succeeded a senior retainer named Shiho Shibata and adopted the name of Shibata Tomomoto. For that reason, there were people related to Chosokabe who went to Sendai with the help of Akohime and her children.

Tomomoto worked as a magistrate. In 1671, during the Date Disturbance, he died in a sword fight against Harada Munesuke at the residence of Sakai Tadakiyo.

While serving as a personal maid to Masamune, Akohime requested of her cultured lord a work of calligraphy for which he wrote a song from Kiyohara no Motosuke, a revered noble and poet from the tenth century in the Heian period.[1]

## Sources

- 佐藤憲一『素顔の伊達政宗 「筆まめ」戦国大名の生き様』（洋泉社、2012年）

- 明田鉄男 編『幕末維新全殉難者名鑑1』新人物往来社、1986年。ISBN 4404013353。

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** 『素顔の伊達政宗』201-202頁

v t e Prominent people of the Sengoku and Azuchi–Momoyama periods Emperor Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei Three major daimyō Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada Other daimyō Amago Tsunehisa Amago Haruhisa Asakura Yoshikage Ashina Moriuji Akechi Mitsuhide Azai Nagamasa Chōsokabe Motochika Date Terumune Date Masamune Hatakeyama Yoshitaka Honda Tadakatsu Hōjō Sōun Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujiyasu Ii Naomasa Imagawa Yoshimoto Imagawa Ujizane Isshiki Yoshimichi Itō Yoshisuke Kitabatake Tomonori Kuroda Nagamasa Matsunaga Hisahide Miyoshi Nagayoshi Mogami Yoshiaki Mōri Motonari Ōuchi Yoshitaka Ōuchi Yoshinaga Ōtomo Sōrin Rokkaku Yoshikata Ryūzōji Takanobu Saitō Dōsan Saitō Yoshitatsu Sakai Tadatsugu Sakakibara Yasumasa Satomi Yoshitaka Sanada Yukitaka Sanada Masayuki Sanada Nobuyuki Satake Yoshishige Sagara Yoshihi Shimazu Yoshihisa Shimazu Yoshihiro Tachibana Dōsetsu Takeda Nobutora Takeda Shingen Tōdō Takatora Uesugi Kagekatsu Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Norimasa Ukita Naoie Uragami Munekage Yamana Toyokuni Yamana Suketoyo Swordsmen Marume Nagayoshi Hikita Bungorō Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Mizuno Katsushige Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi Shinmen Munisai Itō Ittōsai Advisers and strategists Kobayakawa Takakage Kuroda Yoshitaka Naoe Kanetsugu Takenaka Shigeharu Usami Sadamitsu Yamamoto Kansuke Ninja, rogues and mercenaries Mochizuki Chiyome Fūma Kotarō Hatsume no Tsubone Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Nakamura Chōbei Ohama Kagetaka Sugitani Zenjūbō Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun Umemura Sawano Monks and other religious figures Ankokuji Ekei Hongan-ji Kennyo Hon'inbō Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Koji Kashin Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Chōrō Shimozuma Chūkō Shimotsuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō Female castellans Ashikaga Ujihime Chacha Miyohime Munakata Saikaku Ii Naotora Nene Onamihime Otazu no Kata Otsuya no Kata Seishin-ni Tachibana Ginchiyo Female warriors Akai Teruko Fujishiro Gozen Ichikawa no Tsubone Ikeda Sen Kaihime Kamehime Katakura Kita Katō Tsune Komatsuhime Kushihashi Teru Maeda Matsu Myōki Myōrin Numata Jakō Ōhōri Tsuruhime Okaji no Kata Okyō no Kata Omasa Oni Gozen Shigashi Shirai no Tsubone Ueno Tsuruhime Yuki no Kata Other women Lady Acha Akohime Asahihime Lady Chaa Chikurin-in Gōhime Lady Goryū Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Tsumaki Hiroko Lady Hayakawa Hosokawa Gracia Irohahime Izumo no Okuni Jukei-ni Shimazu Kameju Lady Kasuga Keigin-ni Kitsuno Konoe Sakiko Kōzōsu Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Kyōun'in Matsuhime Megohime Lady Myōkyū Naitō Julia Lady Nata Nōhime Odai no Kata Oeyo Oichi Oinu Ohatsu Lady Ōkurakyo Ōmandokoro Ono Otsū Rikei Lady Saigō Lady Sanjō Seien-in Seikōin Senhime Sentōin Tobai-in Toyotomi Sadako Tomo Lady Toida Tokuhime Tōshōin Lady Tsukiyama Yamauchi Chiyo Yoshihime Yoshihiro Kikuhime Foreign people in Japan Alessandro Valignano Francis Xavier Gaspar Coelho Jacob Quaeckernaeck Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn Julia Ota Luís Fróis Soga Seikan Wakita Naokata Wang Zhi William Adams Yasuke See also List of samurai from the Sengoku period

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