Akahashi Tōshi

Akahashi Tōshi (1306–1365) was the legal wife of Ashikaga Takauji, founder of the Muromachi shogunate. Born into the Hōjō regent house of Akahashi, she married Takauji and bore their eldest son Yoshiakira in 1330. In 1333 she and the boy were held hostage in Kamakura and narrowly escaped when Nitta Yoshisada overthrew the Hōjō.

In 1340 she bore Takauji's son Motouji, the first Kamakura kubō. Widowed in 1358 she took the veil and died in 1365 aged sixty, posthumously granted junior first rank.