two children together: a daughter, , and a son, . However tragedy struck when her son died at the age of three, and five years later in 1626, her husband died of tuberculosis. Her mother, Oeyo (then known as Sūgen'in) died in the same year. As was the tradition for a widow at that time, Senhime cut her hair short and became a Buddhist nun, taking the name , moved back to Edo and spent the rest of her life there. After Tokugawa Ietsuna's adoptive mother, Oman no Kata (known as ) died, Tenjuin become Ietsuna's adoptive mother. Family Father: Tokugawa Hidetada (1581-1632) Mother: Oeyo (1573-1626) Husbands: Toyotomi Hideyori (1593-1615) Honda Tadatoki (1596-1626) Children: Toyotomi Kunimatsu (1608-1615) Katsuhime (b. 1618) married Ikeda Mitsumasa Kochiyo (1619–1621) Impact on culture The dramatic life of Senhime produced many legends. Some legends talk about her tenderness, such as how she saved a daughter of her husband Hideyori and another wife of him at the Siege of Osaka. Some other tell her lecherousness during her later days at Edo. Today, Senhime figures prominently in jidaigeki and taiga dorama (period dramas) in Japan. Senhime is also a beloved figure in Himeji. Shortly after her marriage to Honda Tadatoki, they moved to Himeji Castle, a present-day world heritage site whose west wing was mostly constructed at that time. Most of the west wing is lost now, but a tower called keshō yagura (Dressing Tower) remains, where it is believed that her dressing chambers were. Senhime appeared in the concluding storyline of the semi-fictional video game Kessen. In the final cutscene she laments to Ieyasu about the tragedy of war and the death of Hideyori, Ieyasu comforts her and replies that the people of Japan will once again live in peace and praises Hideyori for his duty as a samurai by committing seppuku. Senhime also appeared in a 1962 movie Senhime to Hideyori, starring Hibari Misora as Senhime. The film begins from the siege and fall of Osaka castle and tells the fictionalized story of Senhime's later years after the death of Hideyori till her final confinement to the Buddhist temple. A more historical film about Senhime and the siege of Osaka Castle appeared in the mid-1950s entitled Princess Senhime, with Machiko Kyō in the title role. Senhime appears in the 1955 historical novel Yodo-dono nikki by Yasushi Inoue. Literature Family tree References External links Japanese nobility 1597