Kasuga no Tsubone: Kefuzo Kataku wo

Also known as: 春日局 けふぞ火宅を, Kasuganotsubone: Kefuzo Kataku wo, 春日局

by Riyoko Ikeda

A girl born with the name Fuku of the Saitō clan of samurai. She soon learned of the tragic and treacherous world she was born into when her father Saitō Toshimitsu was executed for his involvement in the Honnō-ji Incident which took the life of Oda Nobunaga. Navigating the world of the new Tokugawa shogunate she is employed as the wet nurse of future shogun Iemitsu, and would go on to make significant political decisions under the name Lady Kasuga no Tsubone. This is her story