Yodo-dono (淀殿) or Yodogimi (淀君), also known as Lady Chacha (茶々), was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she actively acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.
Yodo-dono
Yodo Castle
''Yodo no Kimi'' woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
Memorial in place where Yodo-dono and Hideyori committed suicide in Osaka Castle.
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarded as similar, but mutually exclusive.
Ushabti of a concubine, with a naked body, jewelry underlying the breasts, and shaved pubis with visible vulva, wearing a heavy wig with erotic implications (painted wood, 2050–1710 BC)
Statue of Yang Guifei (719–756), the favoured concubine of Emperor Tang Xuanzong of China
Portrait of a concubine, by Chinese painter Lam Qua, 1864
16th-century Samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi with his wives and concubines