滋賀県長浜市の浅井三姉妹の郷で、お市と三姉妹に出会いました。姉川の戦いの絵図も見つけました。
浅井三姉妹（あざいさんしまい）は、戦国時代の武将浅井長政と正室市との間に生まれた3人の娘、茶々、初、江を指す。それぞれ豊臣秀吉・京極高次・徳川秀忠の妻（正室・側室）となった。天下統一を進めた織田信長の姪という血筋に生まれ、2度の戦国大名家の没落や落城、両親の死を経験し、その後天下をめぐる豊臣家（羽柴家）と徳川家の覇権争いに深く関わったことから、母・市と並んで戦国の女性の代名詞として語られることが多い。
1567年（永禄10年）、市が兄である織田信長の命令で近江国（現在の滋賀県長浜市）の浅井長政に嫁ぎ、三姉妹が生まれる。やがて長政と信長が対立、1573年（天正元年）の小谷城の戦いで小谷城が落城して長政は切腹、市と三姉妹は、織田一族出身の武将である藤掛永勝により救出され織田家に預けられ､織田信次の守山城で暮らすこととなる[1]。信長の死後、市が織田家の重臣であった柴田勝家と再婚したのに従い北ノ庄城に入るが、1583年（天正11年）の賤ヶ岳の戦いで羽柴秀吉に敗れて北ノ庄城が落城。勝家と市は自害し、三姉妹は秀吉に預けられたといわれるが、三姉妹を保護したのは秀吉ではなく織田信雄ともいわれている。その後の三姉妹の運命は分かれることになる。
The Azai Three Sisters (Azai Sanshiai) are the three daughters born to Azai Nagamasa, a warlord in the Sengoku period, and his wife Ichi. They were Chacha, Hatsu, and Go. They became wives (and concubines) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kyogoku Takatsugu, and Tokugawa Hidetada, respectively. Born into a lineage as the niece of Oda Nobunaga, who promoted the unification of Japan, they experienced the downfall and fall of two Sengoku daimyo families and the death of their parents, and were subsequently deeply involved in the struggle for supremacy between the Toyotomi (Hashiba) and Tokugawa families over the country. For this reason, they are often spoken of as synonymous with women in the Sengoku period, along with their mother Ichi. In 1567 (Eiroku 10), Ichi was ordered by her brother Oda Nobunaga to marry Azai Nagamasa of Omi Province (present-day Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture), and three sisters were born to her. Eventually, Nagamasa and Nobunaga came into conflict, and in 1573 (Tensho 1), Odani Castle fell in the Battle of Odani Castle, Nagamasa committed seppuku, and Ichi and her three sisters were rescued by Fujikake Nagakatsu, a military commander from the Oda clan, and were entrusted to the Oda family, living in Oda Nobunaga’s Moriyama Castle.[1] After Nobunaga’s death, Ichi remarried Shibata Katsuie, a senior retainer of the Oda clan, and moved into Kitanosho Castle, but was defeated by Hashiba Hideyoshi in the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583 (Tensho 11), and Kitanosho Castle fell. It is said that Katsuie and Ichi committed suicide, and the three sisters were entrusted to Hideyoshi, but it is also said that it was Oda Nobukatsu, not Hideyoshi, who protected the three sisters. After that, the fates of the three sisters were divergent.
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