sanjo-kawara

Updated: May 7, 2025

Moreover, when it became known that an illegitimate son of Hideyori, called Kunimatsu, had been carried from the castle by some common soldiers and secreted at a farmhouse in Fushimi, Ieyasu caused this child of six to be seized and beheaded by a common executioner at Sanjo-kawara in Kyoto. This episode reflects no credit whatever on the Tokugawa leader.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era