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Mego-hime
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was a Japanese noble lady and aristocrat from the Azuchi–Momoyama period to the early Edo period. She is the daughter and only child of Tamura Kiyoaki, the lord of Miharu Castle, and Okita, daughter of Sōma Akitane. She was also the wife of Date Masamune. She was also known as Lady Tamura (田村御前). After fulfilling her pravrajya, her posthumous Buddhist name was Yōtokuin (陽徳院).
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Tokugawa shogunate
- Spouse
- Date Masamune
- Father
- Tamura Kiyoaki
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- 陽徳院.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1568-00-00
- date of death
- 1653-02-21
- Commons category
- Megohime
- place of burial
- Zuigan-ji Temple
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was a Japanese noble lady and aristocrat from the Azuchi–Momoyama period to the early Edo period. She is the daughter and only child of Tamura Kiyoaki, the lord of Miharu Castle, and Okita, daughter of Sōma Akitane. She was also the wife of Date Masamune. She was also known as Lady Tamura (田村御前). After fulfilling her pravrajya, her posthumous Buddhist name was Yōtokuin (陽徳院).
== Life == In 1579, she married her second cousin Masamune at the age of twelve. Her wet nurse was killed by Masamune, who suspected that betrayers from the Tamura clan were involved in the assassination attempt on him. It is said that her marriage got worse for a while because many other handmaidens serving her were executed.
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