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family and the wife of Ishikawa Munetaka. Her father was

Date Masamune was a Japanese ''daimyō'' during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he w ...

, and her mother was his concubine, Oyama-no-Kata.

Life

She was born in Sendai Castle as the second daughter – ninth child overall – of Masamune in 1608, and her mother was the daughter of Shibata Muneyoshi. On March 25, 1619, at the age of twelve, she was married to Ishikawa Munetaka. During the wedding, Masamune celebrated the Ishikawa family coming to the Sendai house, he stayed overnight and went home the next day. Thereafter, Michitaka Ishikawa was awarded three sons and two daughters – Munehiro, Munenobu, Sadahiro, Chiyotsuruhime, and Kahokuhime. Masamune would worry about Muuhime, and he would write letters that addressed to her as "Omuu". After Masamune died, Muuhime's mother, Oyama-no-Kata, left Sendai Castle. Muuhime built a mi-dō for her mother, and the latter spent the rest of her life there. In September of 1646, her husband, Michitaka, elected Munehiro's child to lead the Ishikawa clan and retired, living in the rice preservative in the territory. On September 30, 1668, Oyama-no-Kata died. The following November 20, Munetaka died as well. On March 17, 1683, Muuhime died at 76. The precept name given to her was .

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1608 births 1683 deaths 17th-century Japanese women People of the Edo period Date clan {{Japan-bio-stub