Empress Yamato
Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王) was a poet and Empress of Japan, as the wife of her paternal uncle Emperor Tenji. This marriage produced no children. She was a granddaughter of Emperor Jomei (舒明天皇) and Soga no Hote-no-iratsume (蘇我法提郎女), through their son Prince Furuhito-no-Ōe (古人大兄皇子).
Empress Yamato
- Name
- Yamato Hime no Ōkimi 倭姫王
- Born
- Unknown
- Birthplace
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王) was a poet and Empress of Japan, as the wife of her paternal uncle Emperor Tenji. This marriage produced no children. She was a granddaughter of Emperor Jomei (舒明天皇) and Soga no Hote-no-iratsume (蘇我法提郎女), through their son Prince Furuhito-no-Ōe (古人大兄皇子).
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Empress Yamato (born 650) was a Japanese poet and writer. The poet held the position of Empress of Japan. Languages used include Japanese.
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Her poetry is collected in the Man'yōshū (万葉集), the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry believed to have been collected by Ōtomo no Yakamochi (大伴 家持). She is believed to have served as a ruler in the interregnum between her husband's death and the ascension of the next emperor.
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• Consort — yes • Name — Yamato Hime no Ōkimi 倭姫王 • Succession — Empress consort of Japan • Reign — 661–671 • Royal House — Imperial House of Japan • Father — Prince Furuhito-no-Ōe • Born — Unknown • Birthplace — Japan • Died — Unknown • Place of death — Japan • Burial Place — Ōtsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
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Empress Yamato is recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded as a citizen of Japan.
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Empress Yamato born.
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- 1.Citko, Malgorzata Karolina. How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei's Man'yōshū Jidaikō. Monumenta Nipponica. 74. 2. 173–209. 2019. 1880-1390.
- 2.Abad de los Santos, Rafael. Intermediarias, sacerdotisas y promiscuas: visiones masculinas sobre el poder femenino en la academia japonesa. Misoginia y filoginia: fuerzas discursivas simbólicas en la narrativa internacional, 2022, ISBN 978-84-1122-640-0, págs. 585-597. Dykinson. 585–597. 2022. 978-84-1122-640-0.
- 3.Sato, Yasuko. Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity: A Woman from the Land of Fire. Springer International Publishing. 193–230. 2023. 978-3-031-17909-9.
- 4.Hurst, G. Cameron. Insei Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan 1086–1185. Columbia University Press. 36–100. 2019-05-06. 978-0-231-88447-1.
- 5.Hiroaki Sato. Japanese women poets: an anthology. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 21. 2008.
- 6.土佐, 秀里. A Portrait of the Lonely Empress : Emperor Genmei in Manyoshu. Kokugakuin Japan Studies. 2. 3–36. February 2021. 10.57529/00002064.
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