Mochizuki Chiyome

Mochizuki Chiyome (望月 千代女), also known as Mochizuki Chiyojo (望月 千代女) or Mochizuki Chiyo (望月 千代), is said to have been a 16th-century Japanese poet and noblewoman.

Fictional accounts presented her as creating a group of kunoichi in service of the Takeda clan. Her existence has been questioned by modern historians. Inagaki:

Describes the details of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima. Claims that Moritoki Mochizuki was a husband of Chiyome and that he died at this battle. Presents a historical written permission to Chiyome issued by Shingen and claims that, due to this permission, the "miko village" emerged. Claims that the miko of the village became spies. Claims that Chiyome then became a ninja.

However, Katsuya Yoshimaru (吉丸雄哉), an associate professor of Mie University who studies Japanese Edo period literature and the ninja, claims that Chiyome did not actually exist and lists the allegedly erroneous points of Inagaki's book: Puzzle & Dragons, and Toukiden: The Age of Demons.

She is mentioned as a trainer of the playable character Kunoichi in Samurai Warriors, and appears in person in Samurai Warriors 2 as Shingen's mistress and the master and surrogate mother of Kurenai, the protagonist of Red Ninja: End of Honor. Mochizuki appears in Assassin's Creed: Memories, where she is recruited by the Templars after Shingen's death and becomes an enemy of Hattori Hanzō, and in Onimusha Soul, in which she works with the evil Genma and appears in several different forms, ages, and art styles. She is a non-playable character using Ground and Dark type Pokémon in Pokémon Conquest, and elite versions of generic "Kunoichi" enemies in Marvel: Avengers Alliance are named "Chiyome". Innocent World (Japanese version of Aura Kingdom) offered a catgirl version of Chiyome as a player character, and another game has her in a full cat form. In Sangoku Taisen, she is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. She also appears as an Assassin-class Servant in Fate/Grand Order. In the videogame series Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the character Aiko comes from a kunoichi clan run by a "Lady Chiyo".

Yatsuko Tanami played her in the film Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku. She appears as a major character in David Kudler's young-adult historical novel Risuko.