Tsugaru Tadako

Tsunomatsu Yukiko (January 5, 1849 – June 6, 1900), was the secondary wife of Tsugaru Lord Tsugaru Nobuakira during the late Edo period in Japan. She was known by the courtesy name "Shin-kun." She was the sixth daughter of Kanpaku Konoe Tadahiro. Due to the close relationship between the Konoe family and the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain, she was initially arranged to be engaged to Toraemon, the legitimate heir of Shimazu Shigehisa. However, Toraemon died young in the fifth year of Ansei (1854), and the engagement was broken off. In May of the second year of Keio (1866), Yukiko became engaged to Tsugaru Nobuakira. Nobuakira had lost his first wife, Jōhime, in the first year of Bunka (1861), and Yukiko became his second wife. The couple married in the second year of Meiji (1869). In the 18th year of Meiji (1885), she changed her first name from "Shin" to "Yukiko." She passed away in 1900 (the 33rd year of Meiji) and was buried at Kan'ei-ji in Ueno, Tokyo. Nobuakira's heir, Tsugaru Iemaru, was the second son of her brother, Konoe Tadaka.