Kitsuno

was a Japanese woman from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. She was a concubine of Oda Nobunaga, a Sengoku Daimyō of the Owari Province. Her posthumous Buddhist name is . Name The name of this woman, who was Nobunaga's concubine and the daughter of Ikoma Iemune, is unknown, as is the case with many women of this period. She is merely listed as a woman in the family tree and her official name has not been passed down to the Ikoma family. She is generally known as , but this name was popularised by Bukō Yawa and does not appear in any of the Ikoma family archives or other historical documents. In recent years, rumours have circulated on the internet and elsewhere that the Ikoma family called her or , but these stories were written in Bukō Yawa, and there is no such mention in the ancient documents left by the Ikoma family. Documents in the Ikoma family from the early to the end of the Edo period list her as or , which seems to be taken from part of her commandment name, and from the Taisho era to the pre-war period, the Ikoma family called her or , which is also taken from part of her commandment name.