Saji Kazunari Explained

was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period and Edo period.^{[1] [2]}

Family

• Father: Saji Nobukata
• Mother: Oinu, sister of Oda Nobunaga
• Wives:
  • Oeyo (m.1583, div.1592)
  • Oushin daughter of Oda Nobunaga
• Children:
  • Kitahime
  • Nuihime
  • Saji Tamenari

Career

He was warden of a castle in a province under the control of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi caused Kazunari to marry Oeyo, the sister of a favorite concubine. When Kazunari's support for Tokugawa Ieyasu became known, Hideyoshi took back the woman. She later married Ieyasu's son Tokugawa Hidetada and mothered the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu.^[2]

In popular culture

Saji is played by Takehiro Hira in the NHK Taiga drama Gō (2011).^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Abe, Takeshi. Sengoku jinmei jiten. 1987. Shinjinbutsu Ōraisha. Tokyo. 4404014120. 368. Saji Kazunari. Japanese.
2. [Stephen Turnbull (historian)|Turnbull, Stephen R.]
3. Web site: ja:大河ドラマ「江」で最初の夫を演じた平岳大、大野城を訪問. http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0031353. Cinema Today. 5 April 2011 . 9 May 2013. Japanese.