Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (born 1552)

Lady Saigō

Consort of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1552–1589)

Lady Saigō, also known as Oai, was one of the concubines of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and then ruled as shōgun. She was also the mother of the second Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Hidetada. Her contributions were…