Yamato Hime no Ōkimi
| Yamato Hime no Ōkimi 倭姫王 | |
|---|---|
| Empress consort of Japan | |
| Tenure | 661–671 |
| Born | Unknown Japan |
| Died | Unknown Japan |
| Burial | |
| House | Imperial House of Japan |
| Father | Prince Furuhito-no-Ōe |
Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王) was a poet and Empress of Japan, as the wife of her paternal uncle Emperor Tenji.[1][2][3] This marriage produced no children.[4] 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).
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). After the death of her husband in 671, she wrote a song of mourning about him.[5]
She is believed to have served as a ruler in the interregnum between her husband's death and the ascension of the next emperor.[6]
Notes
- ^ Citko, Malgorzata Karolina (2019). "How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei's Man'yōshū Jidaikō". Monumenta Nipponica. 74 (2): 173–209. ISSN 1880-1390.
- ^ Abad de los Santos, Rafael (2022). "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. ISBN 978-84-1122-640-0.
- ^ Sato, Yasuko (2023), Sato, Yasuko (ed.), "Revolting Against Western Capitalist Patriarchy: Questioning Modernity During the Asia-Pacific War", Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity: A Woman from the Land of Fire, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 193–230, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17909-9_7, ISBN 978-3-031-17909-9, retrieved 2026-01-10
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Hurst, G. Cameron (2019-05-06), "3. Abdication and Abdicated Sovereigns Prior to the Insei Period", Insei Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan 1086–1185, Columbia University Press, pp. 36–100, doi:10.7312/hurs91588-004/html, ISBN 978-0-231-88447-1, retrieved 2026-01-10
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Hiroaki Sato (2008). Japanese women poets: an anthology. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. p. 21.
- ^ 土佐, 秀里; Gallant, Nathaniel (February 2021). "A Portrait of the Lonely Empress : Emperor Genmei in Manyoshu". Kokugakuin Japan Studies. 2: 3–36. doi:10.57529/00002064.
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