Princess Nakashi

Nakashi
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure455–456
Diedafter 455
SpouseEmperor Ankō
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherEmperor Richū
MotherPrincess Kusakanohatabino

Princess Nakashi (? – after 455) was Empress of Japan as the consort of Emperor Ankō.[1] Nakashi was reviously married to Prince Ōkusaka, son of Emperor Nintoku. According to the Nihongi, Emperor Ankō had Okusaka executed (believing false accusations of disobedience), and, possibly in regret for unjustly executing Okusaka, took Nakashi as his own.[2][3] She became a concubine of Emperor Ankō in 454 and was appointed empress 455. Emperor Anko came to love her greatly.[2]

Nakashi already had a child with her first husband, Okusaka. This child, Prince Mayuwa, was thereafter raised in the imperial palace.[2]

She was the daughter of Emperor Richū and Princess Kusakanohatabino.

Notes

  1. ^ 黛弘道 (1968-12). “継体天皇の系譜について : 釈日本紀所引上宮記逸文の研究”. 学習院史学 (学習院大学史学会) 5: 1-14. ISSN 0286-1658. NAID 110007562716.
  2. ^ a b c Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Society. 1896. ISBN 978-0-524-05347-8.
  3. ^ Williams, Yoko (2013-10-11). Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-87422-2.
Japanese royalty
Preceded by Empress consort of Japan
455–456
Succeeded by