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In June of 1582, Akechi betrayed his lord, Oda Nobunaga. Afterwards, Tama became known as a "traitor's daughter." Not wishing to divorce her, Tadaoki accompanied her to a mansion in present Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, where the couple remained under house arrest until 1584. Tadaoki then took Tama to the Hosokawa mansion in Osaka, where she remained in confinement.

While in confinement, Tama befriended a Christian daughter of a prominent samurai. With the help of a Catholic missionary in Osaka, she was baptized in 1587 and received the Christian name Gracia. Tadaoki learned of her conversion and became enraged; he repeatedly demanded that she renounce her new religion, and even had Toyotomi Hideyoshi order her to do so, but Tama refused.

When Tokugawa's rival Ishida Mitsunari attempted to take her hostage, she ordered the family retainer Ogasawara Shosai to kill her; he and the rest of household then committed seppukuSeppuku is a Japanese word that means ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku is better known in English as hara-kiri (literally "cutting the stomach", written with the same kanji in reverse order. Of the two terms, hara-kiri is considered more vulgar. and burned the mansion down. Their sacrifice led to the Hosokawa family joining the war on Tokugawa's side.

A Catholic priest gathered Gracia's remains from the Hosokawa mansion and buried them in a cemetery in SakaiSakai (; -shi) is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of largest and important seaports of Japan since the Medieval era. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 792,497 and the density of 5,793. 53 persons per km². The t. Later, Tadaoki moved the remains to Sozenji , a temple in Osaka.

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