Yodo-kun: the Noble Concubine of the Warring States Period
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This book tells the story of the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife Chacha (Yodo-kun). The protagonist of this book, Chacha, is the daughter of Oda Nobunaga's sister, Mrs. Aichi. When she was young, she experienced tragic events where the city was captured and her family was destroyed several times. When Xiaogucheng fell, his mother, Ashi, took Chacha and her two younger sisters, Achu and Xiaodu, to escape from the city. Soon after, her mother Aichi remarried, but she and her stepfather died at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Later, she was favored by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and became the concubine of the enemy who killed her mother. She became the concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the most powerful man in Japan, and gave birth to his heir Hideyori. However, Hideyoshi died of illness soon after, and the Toyotomi family lost the battle with the Tokugawa family for the world. Finally, Chacha and Hideyori committed suicide on the day of the fall of Osaka Castle.
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