14 Facts About Yoshihime

Yoshihime was a Japanese noble lady and aristocrat from the Sengoku period.

Yoshihime was a daughter of Mogami Yoshimori from the Mogami clan, she married Date Terumune and gave birth to Date Masamune.

Yoshihime became known as the Demon Princess of the Ouu due to her personality and her attempts to usurp the power of the Date clan.

Yoshihime hated her firstborn, Masamune, because of his one-eyed condition, and favored his younger brother Kojirou to succeed clan leadership.

The conflicts with Yoshihime got worse when she passed on information to her relatives in the Mogami Clan, even when they were fighting against the Date Clan.

Yoshihime after learning that her husband had entered battle against her brother, she went on a palaquim to the battlefield, holding a spear, she stood in front of the two armies and forced them to make a peace treaty.

Yoshihime manages to maintain a peace treaty between the two clans.

Yoshihime suspected Masamune had murdered Terumune to usurp his influence, so she decided to kill Masamune to allow Kojirou to become leader of the Date clan.

Under these circumstances, Yoshihime boarded the battlefield again and stood in between the two armies asking them both to retreat.

In 1590, when Masamune was participating in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Later Hojo clan at the Siege of Odawara, Yoshihime personally brought Masamune a meal laced with poison.

Yoshihime sent a letter with Korean cotton to Masamune, he was so impressed that he tried to approach his mother.

Masamune sent reinforcements to the security of Yoshihime who was in the middle of the battle.

Yoshihime went to live in Sendai Castle and died a year later in 1623 at the age of 76.

Yoshihime sent a gift from the Mogami family to Megohime and made peace with Masamume.