Talking about the "When the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Emperor Resolutely Abdicated The Reason Why the Shogun's Nursing Mother Came to Visit Him" previously released by Koko Kaneki said that the trigger for the abdication of Emperor Go-Mizuo was because the nursing mother of The third generation of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu, came to visit the shrine, because The identity of the Kasuga Bureau was only a nursing mother without official rank, and coming to pay respects made the emperor and the Kyoto imperial court feel a great humiliation, and the emperor resolutely abdicated in shame and anger, and the samurai had an overwhelming advantage. The glass heart of the public and the fierce flames of the Kasuga Bureau were all revealed in this incident.
At this time, Kasuga Bureau was the wet nurse of the three generations of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and in terms of feelings and actual status, she was like the mother of Tokugawa Iemitsu, which became the reason why she wanted to see the emperor and became the general ban (the top administrator) of Daio (the shogun's harem).
Kasuga Bureau's real name was Saito Fuku, his father was Toshizo Saito, a courtier of Mitsuhide Wise, and his mother was the daughter of Tōaki Inaba.
However, Kasuga's original name was Afu, and when it comes to the starting point of Afu's origin, it is very low, and this low performance is not only a commoner, but also the daughter of a "reverse thief" who has been included in another book.
In the early hours of June 2, 1582 (June 21, 1582), Oda Nobunaga's right-hand man, Mitsuhide Mitsuhide, staged a coup d'état that surrounded Honnoji Temple, where Oda Nobunaga was staying, and eventually killed Nobunaga, the largest and most famous coup d'état in Japanese history. One of his courtiers, Toshizo Saito, was also actively involved in the Honnō-ji Rebellion, and he was Afuku's father.
The Honnoji Rebellion was the largest and most famous coup in Japanese history.
After Mitsuhide launched the Honnoji Rebellion, Hashiba Hideyoshi, who was engaged in a western attack, and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi, immediately led his army back to Kiuchi and fought a decisive battle with Mitsuhide at Yamazaki in the name of revenge against the rebels who killed the lord, which was the Battle of Yamazaki, also known as the Battle of Tennozan, in which the Habashi army finally defeated the Wise Army and laid the foundation for Hideyoshi's future unification of Japan.
Mitsuhide, on the part of Mitsuhide, is scattered, Mitsuhide commits suicide after being injured, and Toshizo Saito sneaks back to Omi, but is arrested in Kenta and soon beheaded.
This year, Ah Fu was only 3 years old, and the identity of the family of the "reverse thief" made the whole family unable to lift their heads, as the old mr. Zhou Shuren of China said:
Has anyone fallen from a well-off family into a difficult situation? I thought that in this way, I could probably see the true face of the world.
The plight of the Saito family can be imagined, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the Saito family's family connections still play a certain role.
There is a theory that Afuku's uncle (the husband of Saito Toshi's third sister), Tosa Domain Daimyō Nagamasa Ibu Motobu took in Afuku Yuoka Toyojo and raised him, but it is also said that Afuku was raised at the house of his brother Sanjo Nishishijo. It seems unlikely that both situations would coexist, and if they both existed, it would be a sense that Afu's childhood was also displaced for various reasons.
The Sanjo Nishijo family is a family of gongqing in Kyoto, and may have a certain relationship with Afu's maternal grandfather's family, so Afu was able to enter his family, and there are different theories here, some saying that she was raised as a lady, some saying that she was a maid, in any case, in the Sanjo Nishi family, Afu learned calligraphy, waka, tea ceremony, incense and other parenting skills of the gongqing family, making herself a more educated and cultured woman, which was beneficial to Afu's later career.
However, Ah Fu, who had been raised by the Gongqing family, was after all the daughter of a "rebellious thief" and had had smallpox, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was an ugly girl with mazi, which affected her marriage to some extent, and in the end, she married indo-law Masanari Inaba, the son-in-law of her adoptive father Inaba Shigetsuki (her mother's cousin), and made a house filling.
Inaba Masanari had a wife and two sons before, and after Ah Fu married him, he had three sons, but it is said that the relationship between the two was not very good, and they later divorced - one theory is that Ah Fu was hired to be a nursing mother of the Tokugawa family, and the other is because Ah Fu had a fierce temperament and stabbed Masanari's concubine (mistress).
The opportunity to change Afuku's fate began when tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Hidetada, also gave birth to a son, and the child's grandfather, Tokugawa Ieyasu, in view of the fact that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's youngest son Toyotomi Hideyoshi became a cowardly mother under the doting of his mother Yodohime (Asai Tea Tea), he asked his eldest grandson not to grow up with his mother, so he needed a nursing mother.
Ah Fu Mao then proposed himself and went to apply for the position of this nursing mother.
To say that Ah Fu's conditions are not good, as mentioned earlier, she is the daughter of a "reverse thief", because there is a mazi is also considered to be relatively bumpy, but on the other hand, Ah Fu also has an advantage, because of the growth experience in the Sanjo Nishi family of the Gongqing in her childhood, she has a rare upbringing and elegant temperament of a samurai woman, and having smallpox also means that she has immunity.
In addition, it is said that Afu was recommended by the shogunate's regent Itakura Katsushige, and in the end, Afu became the nursing mother of Tokugawa Iemitsu.
When the nursing mother's Afu completely poured his maternal love into the family light, all kinds of meticulous care needless to say, the most typical case is that after the family light was infected with smallpox, Ah Fu prayed to the gods, as long as the family light is healed, he will no longer take medicine for life in the future, and later after the family light recovers health, ah fu's second half of his life is indeed even if he is sick and no longer takes medicine.
Another great event that Afu did for Iemitsu was to secretly pay homage to Tokugawa Ieyasu and establish his status as heir.
Raised by kasuga bureau, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third generation of the Edo shogunate
The second shogun's wife, Ae, because she could not raise her eldest son, poured her feelings into her second son after giving birth to her second son, Tokugawa Tadao, and it was said that Iemitsu was darker (Iemitsu said who I was provoking), and her personality was a little strange, Tokugawa Ietada and Ae were more partial to the second son, and for a time, Tokugawa Tadao's call for a wife was very high.
With Afu's position, of course, it was impossible to confront the second-generation shoguns and his wife, but she released a big move, that is, to take the opportunity to visit Ise Jingu Shrine to secretly meet Tokugawa Ieyasu, let the most authoritative old man speak, and ensure that no one can shake the status of Iemitsu's heir.
Kasuga's meeting with Ieyasu to solve the heir problem can be described as the first to capture the king.
No one knows what Afu said to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and we can only guess that the content of what Afu, who has received a double education in the public samurai family, must be both methodical and reasonable, so that the scheming Ieyasu can weigh the pros and cons and ensure the position of the eldest grandson.
In the ninth year of Yuan He (1623), after The abdication of Hidetada, Iemitsu became the third generation of generals, at the age of 19, 3 years later, Ajiang died, in fact, even if Ajiang did not die, Afu in a sense completely replaced Ajiang's role as Ieko's mother, involving all kinds of big and small matters of Iemitsu, from contact with women and how to deal with political enemies.
The left one is the Kasuga Bureau, and she is in a very high practical position around the general.
The symbol of the peak of Afuku's power is that she visited Emperor Mizuo as the general's nursing mother and Sanjo Nishishijo Yoshimizu's sister, and the so-called "Kasuga Bureau" was the official name, and the official rank was three, which was the emperor's temporary official position in order to regain face and avoid women without official ranks from seeing her, and the face may be somewhat recovered, but on the other hand, the nursing mother was named a high-ranking female official, which shows the weakness and helplessness of the imperial court at that time.
Kazuko Tokugawa was the younger sister of Tokugawa Iemitsu and empress of Emperor Go-Mizuo.
Another sign of the peak of Kasuga's power, which is not so obvious but also very telling, is that Tokugawa Iemitsu's side chamber Lady Awan (Nagamitsu-in) was favored by the shogun, but did not leave a man and a half-woman, generally believed to be because Awan was the pure daughter of the six noble families of the public family, and once the shogun gave birth to an heir, the blood of the public family flowed into the shogun's family, which greatly increased the strength of the imperial court and the public family, so the Kasuga Bureau, which was banned by the Daio, deprived Awan of the right to be a mother.
Kasuga passed away in the company of the shogun and his son
Kasuga died of illness and passed on the post of General Manager of the Great Ao to Lady Awan.
There is no evidence that the relationship between Kasuga and Tokugawa Iemitsu is similar to the relationship between Mansada and The Seisei Oro or between Theke and the Apocalypse Emperor, and kasuga's position of power is fundamentally based on being treated as her true mother by Iemitsu, which she made many contributions to Iemitsu's ascension and consolidation of her rule by doing her best to work as a nursing mother and even beyond this range.
Bronze statue of Kasuga Bureau in Tokyo's Gravegawa Park
From the orphan of the "reverse thief" to the "mother" of the shogun, the life of The Lady of Kasuga Bureau is a shocking legend in the Edo period relative to the Japanese Sengoku period, and her identity as a female professional has also infected future generations, and the average rating of the 1989 Japanese NHK Okawa drama "Kasuga Bureau" is 32.4%, which is one of the three highest-rated dramas in the history of Ōkawa drama, the key of which is because of the support of a large number of female audiences.