1. Ohatsu or Ohatsu-no-kata was a prominently placed figure in the late Sengoku period.
10 Facts About Ohatsu
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Ohatsu was daughter of Oichi and Nagamasa Azai, and the sister of Yodo-dono and Oeyo.
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Ohatsu acted as a liaison until 1615 in the siege of Osaka, when the Tokugawa eliminated the Toyotomi.
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Ohatsu's father died during the siege of Odani in 1573 after rebelling against Nobunaga, and Ohatsu's brother Manpukumaru was killed.
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In 1582, after the assassination of her uncle in Honno-ji Incident, her mother married Shibata Katsuie, a general in the service of the Oda, and in 1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked the Kitanosho castle, the castle that Ohatsu lived with her foster father, Katsuie.
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Ohatsu's mother died and Hideyoshi took Ohatsu and her sisters under his care.
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Ohatsu was the concubine and the second wife of Hideyoshi; and the mother of Toyotomi Hideyori.
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Ohatsu was in the castle when the siege of Otsu occurred.
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However, Ohatsu remained active in the political intrigue of her time.
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In 1614, during the winter campaign of the siege of Osaka, Ohatsu acted again as a peace negotiator and reunited with her sister, Yodo-dono.