Toyotomi Sadako (豊臣 完子,1592 – 1658) was a Japanese noble woman from the Sengoku period and Edo period. She was a daughter of Toyotomi Hidekatsu (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew) and Oeyo (Oichi's daughter, Oda Nobunaga's niece). In 1609, she ascended to the status of Kita no Mandokoro. Due to being directly linked to prominent figures of her time, she was inducted into the Junior Third Rank of the Imperial Court (Jusanmi), one of the highest honors that could be conferred by the Emperor of Japan.
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Genealogy
Sadako's birth name is not known. She was born of the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hidekatsu (second son of Hideyoshi's sister, Tomo, with Miyoshi Kazumichi) and Oeyo, daughter of Azai Nagamasa and Oichi. Later, her mother married Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Sadako was a maternal half-sister of Tokugawa Iemitsu .
Sadako married Kujo Yukiie, a court noble. Her children were Kujo Michifusa, Nijo Yasumichi, Matsudono Michimoto, Eigon, a daughter named Michiko, a second daughter who was wife of Kojun of Hongan-ji Temple and a third daughter.
Life
Toyotomi Sadako's father, Hidekatsu, died of disease in the Bunroku campaign before her birth, and Oeyo gave birth to her in the home of her elder sister, Yodo-dono. Oeyo had her third marriage to Tokugawa Hidetada in 1595, and therefore she was taken in and brought up by her aunt, Yodo-dono. Yodo-dono is said to have brought her up carefully as a biological child, but she was recorded as another child considered Yodo-dono's own (another child considered one's own is generally regarded as an adopted child having only the name of a biological child because they have no right of inheritance), not as an adopted child in the "Keicho nikkenroku," probably due to the matter of inheritance.