Hiding Place of Hosokawa Gracia

This quiet mountaintop clearing is believed to be where Hosokawa Gracia spent two years in hiding after her father, general Akechi Mitsuhide, killed the warlord Oda Nobunaga in the 1582 Honnoji Incident. Gracia, then known as Akechi Tama, was separated from her children and banished for her father's betrayal. She later converted to Christianity and took the name Gracia, and when enemies seized Osaka in 1600, samurai code demanded she die rather than be captured. A stone monument was erected here in 1936 on the upper level of a two-tiered clearing. A second clearing visible in the distance is where historians believe her guards were stationed.