Born a daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide and named Tama.
At Oda Nobunaga's urging she married Hosokawa Tadaoki, son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. She is said to have been beautiful and intelligent.
Her father Mitsuhide staged the Honnō-ji Incident and was defeated. As a "rebel's daughter", Tama was sent by her husband to remote Midono in Tango, living in seclusion for about two years.
With Toyotomi Hideyoshi's permission she returned to the Hosokawa residence in Osaka, but, unable to go out freely, her inner troubles deepened.
While her husband was campaigning in Kyushu she secretly visited a church and learned of Christianity. She was baptized by her lady-in-waiting, taking the name Gracia, meaning "grace".
Just before Sekigahara, Ishida Mitsunari tried to take daimyō wives hostage and demanded Gracia leave her residence. She refused. As Christianity forbade suicide, she died at the hand of a retainer, and the residence was set ablaze. Her death poem says flowers and people are truly themselves only when they know the time to fall.
Akechi MitsuhideOda NobunagaToyotomi HideyoshiIshida MitsunariHosokawa Yūsai (Fujitaka)
Ii NaomasaFukushima MasanoriKatō KiyomasaMaeda ToshinagaKatō YoshiakiHosokawa TadaokiWilliam Adams (Miura Anjin)Ikeda Terumasa
People of the Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.