@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
2026-06-29 02:59 UTC
🍅A CINDERELLA STORY💘
Keishō-in (桂昌院) was the 2nd daughter of a Nishijin greengrocer by the name of Nizaemon. Against all odds she would rise to become a concubine of Tokugawa Iemitsu, later giving birth to the 5th shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (徳川綱吉 1646-1709).
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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social 2026-06-29 03:07
When she was still young her mother married Honjō Munemasa (本庄宗正), who moved his new family to Edo to run the household of the Nijō family. Keishō-in, known in childhood as Otama (お玉), became lady-in-waiting to Kasuga-no-tsubone (春日局), the old wet-nurse of Iemitsu. #お玉