Tsubunera no Acha

Background

Tsubunera Acha was born in 1555. Her real name was Suchi Kamio. She also called herself Unkoin.

Career

In the Winter Campaign in Osaka (1614), she performed the important mission of meeting Yodogimi, the wife of Hideyoshi, Ieyasu's enemy, to bring about a truce. Later, she accompanied Kazuko, granddaughter of Ieyasu, to Kyoto when she married Emperor Gomino-o as proxy of her mother. Attended on Kazuko in the Imperial Court when Kazuko gave birth to a princess (Empress Regnant Myojo).

Died in 1637 at the age of 82.

Connections

After her husband died in 1686, she served Ieyasu.

husband:

Tadashige Kamio