The great wealth and changing fortunes of her family affected Yodo-dono's life as well. She was the founder of the temple Yogen-in ( 養源院). After the death of Hideyoshi, she took the tonsure, becoming a Buddhist nun and taking the name Daikōin (大広院). Due to the attempt to exalt the Tokugawa Shogunate, Yodo-dono was frequently portrayed as a "wicked and wanton" woman who planned the Toyotomis' death. The relationship of Tokugawa and Toyotomi has been falling steadily since Hideyoshi's death, so it led both clans to the Battle of Sekigahara and later to the siege of Osaka. Her sister, Oeyo, was the wife of the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, and matriarch of the successive shoguns' lineage, thus receiving the political title Omidaidokoro. When her two younger sisters became prominent members linked to the Tokugawa clan, Oichi's three daughters were vital to maintaining a diplomatic relationship between the two most powerful clans of the time, Toyotomi and Tokugawa. Alongside her son, Yodo-dono led the last anti- Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.
She actively acted in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, as Hideyori's guardian. Her time period being that of large turmoil and overhaul, Yodo-dono had an interest toward both politics and administration.
She also became the mother of his son and successor, Hideyori. She was a concubine and second wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was then the most powerful man in Japan. She was the daughter of Oichi and sister of Ohatsu and Oeyo. Yodo-dono ( 淀殿) or Yodogimi ( 淀君) (1569 – June 4, 1615) was a prominently placed figure in the late- Sengoku period.
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