Hatsume no Tsubone (初芽局) is a fictitious Japanese woman from the Sengoku period.[1] She is famous as the main character of the historical novel Sekigahara by Ryōtarō Shiba. In the novel, she is a kunoichi (female ninja) sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu to spy on his political enemy Ishida Mitsunari before the Battle of Sekigahara.[2]
- ^ "「関ケ原」初の映画化 「正義」貫く「新たな三成」描く：時事ドットコム". 時事ドットコム (in Japanese).
- ^ Shiba, Ryōtarō (1966). Sekigahara (in Japanese). Shinchōsha.