List of female castellans in Japan

Iwamura Castle, one of the Japan's Top 100 Castles is famous as "the castle of the female castellan" owned by Otsuya no kata.

A list of female castellans in Japanese history.

Definition

Ne Castle was owned by Seishin-ni from 1614-1620

The list includes the following persons:

  • Women who inherited the leadership of a Samurai clan.
  • A woman who was named commander of the castle by a Daimyo.
  • Due to the death of a male owner, his wife or daughter formally inherit the leadership of the castle.

The list does not include:

  • Women who had great political power but were not formally clan or castle leaders.
  • Reigning Empresses or Regents
  • Women who was the owner of part or compartment of a castle, like Kodai-in who gave the eastern ward of Osaka Castle to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  • Women who received honorable titles, such as Lady Kasuga who was named '' Jōrō Otoshiyori '' (上 臈 御 年 寄) and commanded the Ōoku area of Edo Castle
  • Buildings or areas that cannot be considered a Japanese castle.

List

Tachibana Ginchiyo was the castellan of Tachibana Castle.
Name Allegiance Castle Reign
Ii Naotora[1] Imagawa clan Iinoya Castle (Tōtōmi Province) 1565-1568
Otazu no kata[2] None[lower-alpha 1] Hikuma Castle (Tōtōmi Province) 1566-1568
Ii Naotora(2)[1] Matsudaira clan Iinoya Castle (Tōtōmi Province) 1568-1572
Lady Otsuya Oda clan Iwamura Castle (Mino province) 1572
Ii Naotora(3)[1] Matsudaira clan Iinoya Castle (Tōtōmi Province) 1573-1582
Tachibana Ginchiyo Ōtomo clan Tachibana Castle (Chikuzen province) 1575-1581
Onamihime[3] Ashina clan Sukagawa Castle (Mutsu province) 1582-1588
Ashikaga Ujinohime Later Hōjō clan[lower-alpha 2] Koga Castle (Shimōsa Province) 1583-1590
Enkyū-ni Ryūzōji clan Kamafunatsu Castle (Chikugo Province) 1584[4]
Yodo-dono Toyotomi clan Yodo castle (Yamashiro Province) 1589[5]
Akai Teruko Toyotomi clan Ushiku castle (Hitachi Province) 1590[6]
Ashikaga Ujinohime(2) Toyotomi clan→
Kitsuregawa clan
Kōnosu Palace (Shimōsa Province) 1590-1620
Kōdai-in Toyotomi clan→
Tokugawa clan
Kyōto New castle (Yamashiro Province)[7] 1599-1623
Seishin-ni Nanbu clan Ne Castle (Mutsu province) 1614-1620[8]

Others evidences of female castellans

A sequence of women who acted remarkably as castellans, without being formal heiress, or female castellans where there is little detail about their administration, area and castle.

Sengoku period (1467–1603)

Notes

  1. Equivocal between Matsudaira clan and Takeda clan
  2. She was de facto Koga kubō, title equivalent to shōgun, but in fact puppet of Hōjō clan

See also

References

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