Tsukiyama Tomoko

Tsukiyama Tomoko (月山知子, 19 February 1876 – 9 February 1944) was the 15th Imperial Grand Marshal of Yamatai, serving as the head of government from 9 June 1936 until her death on 9 February 1944. Before becoming Imperial Grand Marshal, Tsukiyama had been the Minister of Colonial Affairs and was a strong believer in Izoku Kyowa. After she became Imperial Grand Marshal in 1936, she presided over the Yamataian conquests in the Second Escar-Varunan War. As the war's tide increasingly turned against Yamatai, Tsukiyama suddenly suffered a stroke and died on February 9, 1944.

She was succeeded as Imperial Grand Marshal by Takagi Hidenori, who oversaw the closing months of the war and attempted several futile counterattacks before committing suicide upon the signature of a ceasefire by a pro-peace faction within the Imperial government.

Early life
Tsukiyama Tomoko was born in Yuki on 19 February 1876, as the second daughter and third child of Tsukiyama Hiroki, a colonel in the Yamatai Imperial Army, and Tsukiyama Yuno, the daughter of a businessman. Tsukiyama's father Hiroki was in command of the Okayama Arsenal, an arms manufacturing factory owned by the Imperial Army that, as was typical for the era, also produced some civilian goods on the side, bringing in a steady income. The Tsukiyama family was wealthy and respectable, and lived in a large mansion on the outskirts of Yuki.

Tsukiyama had an education typical of the Imperialist era, and was trained to believe that she was a crucial component of an infallible whole, and that the greatest honour for a Yamataian person was to die for the Empress and the nation. As a youth, Tsukiyama was known for her stubbornness, lack of a sense of humour, and for being a perfectionist prodigy also skilled in martial arts. Due to her high intelligence, perfectionism, and clear favouritism from her father, she often got into fights with her siblings. In 1886, when she was ten years old, her oldest brother Tsukiyama Hirofumi was killed in action during the Phuong Hoa Rebellion in Yamataian Nanyōkuni, driving her mother into a depression.

In 1899, Tsukiyama entered the Kuromorimine Military Academy. When she graduated as the top cadet in March 1905, she was commissioned as a Junior Lieutenant in the Yamatai Imperial Army's artillery corps. In 1909, she married Morito Hideki, a fellow officer in the 34th Artillery Division, with whom she had two children. Angered by the ongoing attempts by Chisei to contain Yamataian colonial expansion, particularly in various ongoing bush wars in Valeya, Tsukiyama was one of many vocal supporters of the so-called "Homeland Strike Strategy", a plan to end Chiseian interference once and for all by invading Chisei itself, considered near-impossible at the time.

Early military career
Tsukiyama spent the early years of her military career in the 34th Artillery Division, seeing no action in the Valeyan Bush Wars until late 1917, when she spent a few weeks in Valeya as an artillery observer for the 7th Cavalry Division. She, along with thousands of Yamataian troops, were urgently recalled to Yamatai shortly after due to the outbreak of the First Escar-Varunan War and the invasion of the Chiseian mainland.

Imperial Grand Marshal and the Endwar
Following her

Wakizashi Night was done by Tsukiyama to eradicate her rivals and stage the nation for war.