Princess Tokushi

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Princess Tokushi (篤子内親王; 1060–1114) was a princess and an Empress consort of Japan. She was the consort of her nephew, Emperor Horikawa.^[1]

Life

She was the fourth daughter of Emperor Go-Sanjō and his cousin Imperial Princess Kaoruko, and the sister of Emperor Shirakawa.^[2][3]

Her father died in 1073 and was succeeded by her brother Emperor Shirakawa, who abdicated favoring his son - Emperor Horikawa - in 1087. In 1093, the fourteen-year-old Emperor married his paternal aunt, Princess Tokushi.

In 1107, she ordained as a Buddhist nun.^[4] She had no children.

At one point, she served as a Kamo priestess.

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