Inside the Ooku: 8 Concubines of Japan Shogun | Tokugawa Iemitsu

During the last Shogunate regime in Japan, Tokugawa shogunate, the shogun’s mother, his wife, his concubines and thousands of female servants lived in a place called the Ooku (大奥). After Tokugawa Iemitsu succeeded as the third shogun, he did not have any concubines for a long time. Rumor has it that he liked man instead of women. But everything changed when his first concubine entered the Ooku. #Ooku the inner chamber Next Recommended Story: 36 Years of Despair | Oichi, Sister of Oda Nobunaga    • Tragic Life as Sister of a Famous Warlord ...   She Made the End of the Shogunate Bloodless | Untold Story of Atsuhime/ Princess Atsu    • She Made the End of the Shogunate Bloodles...   Why Japan's Beautiful & Powerful Concubine Hanged Herself in the end? | Yodo-dono (Lady ChaCha)    • Why Japan's Beautiful & Powerful Concubine...   Japan's Famous Comfort Woman Lived in the Street? | Yokohama Mary    • Japan's Famous Comfort Woman Lived in the ...   Tragic Love Story of a Japanese Geisha | Nakanishi Kimio    • Tragic Love Story of a Japanese Geisha | N...   Japan's Lonely Princess | Princess Aiko    • Why She is Japan's Loneliest Princess? | P...   Dramatic Life of Korea's Evil Queen | Consort Jang Hee-Bin    • Dramatic Life of Korea's Evil Queen | Cons...