During the Edo shogunate, Shogun Tokugawa came to power and the Emperor of Japan lost power. After Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son Hidetada, General Tokugawa's wives and concubines lived in Edo Castle Daio.
The empress of Kyoto, not counting the mother islands, the shogun's godai, is the real heroine.
There is a saying in Japan that if you want to be famous in the Great Olympics and be superior, you need to -
One lead, two luck, three beautiful.
(Stills of Da'ao)
Some people say that it is a quantity of one lead, two transports and three instruments.
The amount of equipment refers to intelligence and beauty.
But obviously, beauty is a stepping stone, and it is looked down upon, even if there is the wisdom of Kong Ming, what?
Today we will talk about a handmaiden who mixed well.
Her name is Chie Sekiguchi.
She was a native of the village of Iwamai in Tachibana County, Takeshu—the village of Yokohama Iomai, where several British were killed at the end of the shogunate, nearly leading to the fall of Japan—and went to Edo Daio as a teenager. However, she was too young and plain, and left the city at the age of 19 to marry a merchant woman.
She gave birth to a boy, who was originally very peaceful and beautiful in her childhood, but her husband died young, and her uncle succeeded her as the governor of the family, and she was not well managed and could not afford to support her sister-in-law.
Chie had to leave her husband's house and work at Kiyoshige Nakano's house.
Kiyoshige Nakano is no ordinary person, he is the adoptive father of Miyo, the favorite concubine of shogun Tokugawa Ieki. At this time, he was 63 years old, newly promoted to the head of the imperial family, the sheriff of the town of Bomo, the spring breeze was proud, and he was at the peak of his life.
Qianhui's coming to his house was a major turning point in his life.
It was in 1827, the tenth year of her entry into the civil administration, that Miyo's daughter, Rinhime, married into the Maeda clan of Kaga Domain. Some of the maids by her side, along with the young lady, came to Kaga, so there was a need for additional personnel.
Not long after being at Nakano Kiyoshige's house, Chie, who was in her 20s, was shrewd and strong, and was highly valued. She had already worked as an errand boy at Daio, so, unsurprisingly, she was sent to Miyo's side.
Obviously, she has met the first two points of one lead and two luck, but is she beautiful? There is no record of history. But she was only a maid of honor, and she didn't need to be at the forefront of the palace fight like Miyo, and it was impossible to become a concubine of the general, so it was enough for her to live a dignified life with introduction and luck.
When she arrived at Miyo's side, she played at a high level as usual and was very well cared for by Miyo. Then there was a cascade of special treatment.
According to the Occult of the Great Occult:
Since Chie joined dai-o'oe, gifts were given to her parents twice or four times a year, from her patron, a servant of the Nakano family, to a celebrity in Edo, to a woman of lower status than her.
Precious Ryukyu grapefruit soaked sake, white flour, umeboshi kimchi radish shredded, egg fish small white fish... In addition to their own use, they can also be sold.
More crucially, according to scholars, she also sent the general's leftover meals and snacks to her parents and grandmother through Miyo. Ben's ill grandmother died five days after receiving her granddaughter's snacks, but during these five days, she was probably the happiest old man in All of Japan.
Happy eating leftovers?
It depends on whose. Didn't the ancient Chinese emperors often give the food they had eaten to the most powerful ministers?