When Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Edo shogunate, as a person familiar with history, he must have known that this shogunate would always perish.
But he would not have imagined that it was a young sister from the imperial court who finally saved his Tokugawa family and made the last shogun, Tokugawa Keiki, after becoming a thief of the enemy of the country.
She is the Prince of the Inner, the Princess and the Palace.
Washiomiya was born in 1846 as a widow, and was succeeded by her brother Emperor Hyomaki.
Emperor Xiaoming was very fond of this sister. When he was 6 years old, he promised her to Prince Akihito of Arisugawa Palace. Blazing was 17 years old at the time.
However, this marriage of kinship and kinship can be fulfilled.
When Wasong was 7 years old, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Matthew Perry led a gunboat into Edo Bay, demanding that Japan, which had limited trade with the Qing Dynasty and the Netherlands, open its doors to the world and open ports for trade.
The Tokugawa shogunate was in disarray, and Perry agreed to come back next year.
When Wamiya was 8 years old, Japan and the United States signed a treaty of friendship, and Japan began to end its isolation from the country and become involved in the process of world history.
This also changed the fate of the palace.
Japan soon formed two factions, one was the Emperor Shōjō shōgun, and the other was the Samu faction.
(Wakomiya stills)
Interestingly, Emperor Takamitsu actually refused the kindness of the Emperor's faction, feeling that if the shogunate fell, Japan would not survive.
This is naturally the habit of thinking formed by the emperor for hundreds of years without power. He probably did not want to think that in the era of the shogunate, Japan had also achieved extremely brilliant achievements by studying the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, this is the hindsight of posterity, and the reality is that the emperor of filial piety approves of the marriage between the imperial family and the shogunate, and the integration of public and military affairs.
The combination of public and military is essentially a political marriage.
On the side of the shogunate, it is also very much needed. Theoretically, as long as the princess descends and the curtain is integrated, the fallen faction loses their goal.
So, who's coming?
Everyone thought of The Palace.
But the palace is married.
Easy to do.
On the one hand, the survival of the shogunate and the credit of the imperial court on the other side were not a big problem when the shogunate was still dominant.
As a result, the marriage contract with the palace was dissolved.
There was Some Money in The Palace of Qichuan.
The fourteenth shogun, Tokugawa Ieshige, married Prince Wakanuchi.
At this time, it was 1862, Wamiya was 16 years old, and Ieshige was also 16 years old.
The dowry is quite a lot, the wedding is lively, but the run-in after marriage is a bit difficult.
At that time, Ōo had the mother, the wife of the previous shogun, the side room, or the birth mother of the current shogun, and the Wakaya shrine from Kyoto, and the living habits were incompatible with here.
In Kyoto, she only takes three baths a month, but the women here have to change their clothes several times a day.
It is not clear who is good and who is bad, but anyway, the Edo girls and the Kyoto girls have gone to war.
On the gift list she gave to the former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Miyasu, it was directly written, Tenjo-in Temple, which is equivalent to calling him by his first name.
And their first meeting, the mother-in-law let this honorable daughter-in-law, sitting at the bottom, did not treat her as a princess at all...
Tokugawa Ieshige, 16, carefully balances his mother-in-law, birth mother, and wife. He often gave gifts to Wagyu, and they often wandered among the green mountains and waters of Ōo.
First love is always so beautiful, it can dissolve the estrangement between this couple who have never met, and eventually make there is no knot between Hegong and Tianzhangyuan.
However, the situation outside is changing, Kyoto is bloody, and Edo is even more restless.
(Tianzhangyuan stills)
Everything has not changed because of the marriage to the palace.
It was difficult to get rid of the family woman's family woman, Iemo, had to face the murder and arson of the Fallen Curtain Faction again and again, and at the age of 21, he died of illness while recruiting the disobedient samurai of the Choshu Domain.
Wasong had just enjoyed the sweetness of love and had become a widow. Like the women whose husbands died in the Great Ori, she also fell out of the house.
Not long after, the news came that his brother Xiao Ming emperor had died violently. She was so sad.
For the Tokugawa clan, the tragedy is not over.
Tokugawa Keiki took over, and the great government returned to the imperial court, but they could not satisfy choshu and Satsuma, who had fallen strongly, and they controlled the imperial court and continued to provoke, and the shogunate finally fought with the government army in the Toba Fushimi area, and began the civil war that lasted for more than a year.
The shogunate side was defeated again and again, and Tokugawa Keiki was willing to submit to the imperial court, but was not respected by the Sacho clan.
They want Tokugawa's life.
At this time, Wasong struck.
The Grand Viceroy of Zhengdong was none other than Prince Blazing.
In "Daio Japan", it is said that the shogunate asked Wamiya to be a mobilizer, but she also has self-respect, and she can't be naïve enough to ask for help directly from the man who has been dumped.
Although the supreme commander is Akihito, his forward is Hashimoto Shineyoshi.
His father, is Uncle Hegong, isn't that a cousin?
Things are much more convenient.
But it's not easy.
Washigu's wet nurse Fujiko took the people through all kinds of difficulties before delivering the letter to Hashimoto Ryoshi. After that, she went to Kyoto to meet with the new government figures.
At the same time, Tenjo-in from satsuma domain also wrote to Saigo Takamori, the commander of another official army, asking him to wait.
Thanks to the efforts of the two women, the imperial court, in fact, Satsuma and Choshu, finally softened their position, and Edo, the most prosperous city in the world at that time, was not exposed to war, opened the city without blood, and Tokugawa Keiki was able to save his life.
(Tokugawa Keiki)
So, what was written in the letter from the palace?
There are a few main meanings -
Tokugawa Keiki made a series of mistakes;
We deeply regret that he became a thief of the nation;
I couldn't bear the destruction of the Tokugawa family.
In fact, isn't this the same thing as Tokugawa Keiki's willingness to surrender?
It can be seen that many times, it is still the face of women that plays a more role.
In 1877, Wasomiya died of illness. He was 31 years old and 2 months old.