Imperial Princesses IV

[Shirakawa] Six Daughters

¶(Note: This entry has no text on the six daughters of Emperor Shirakawa; the source merely repeats the entry title "[Shirakawa] Six Daughters".)

[Horikawa] Two Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Teishi was born to the Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Fusō Ryakki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imakagami). In the third year of Jōhō (1076) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the second year of Jōryaku (1078) she became a Jun-sangū, Honorary Equal of the Three Empresses (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden), and was chosen by divination as Saiō, High Priestess of Ise. In the first year of Ōtoku (1084), she suffered the death of her mother, the Empress, and resigned as Priestess (Note: following the entry for the second year of Jishō in the Gyokukai, and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Kanji (1087) she became the Jun-bo, Honorary Mother, of Emperor Horikawa (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). In the fourth year (1090) she fell ill, and the Retired Emperor Shirakawa performed the Godan rite of the Five Altars to pray for her (Note: following the Chūyūki). In the fifth year (1091) she was installed as Kōgō, Empress (Note: following the Chūyūki. However, the Ichidai Yōki, the Fusō Ryakki, and the entry on the conferral of the court title in the Go-Nijō Kanpaku-ki all call her Chūgū. But since the text of the imperial proclamation recorded in the entry on the presentation of the title in the Kanpaku-ki says Kōgō, the account here follows that record). In the seventh year (1093) she was presented with the court title Ikuhōmon-in (Note: following the Go-Nijō Kanpaku-ki, the Fusō Ryakki, and the Ichidai Yōki), her fief households were left as before, and she was granted the annual appointments of provincial governors (Note: following the Fusō Ryakki). In this year, at the Tango festival, the Imperial Lady gathered a great many poets and held a contest of matching iris roots. It was a grand occasion that was long told in the world (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Imakagami). In the first year of Kahō (1094) she fell ill, and the Retired Emperor performed the Fudō rite within the palace to pray for her. The following year, accompanying the Retired Emperor, she went to the round hall of Hosshōji, worshipped the image of Aizen Myōō, and made a visit of thanks for her recovery (Note: following the Chūyūki). In the eighth month of the first year of Eichō (1096) she died at the Rokujō-in, at the age of twenty-one (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki. The location of the Rokujō-in follows the Ichidai Yōki. ○ The Shōun Yakuryaku and the Renchūshō give her age at death as twenty-two, which is mistaken). The Retired Emperor cherished the Imperial Lady deeply; they always lived in the same palace, and when they went out they rode in the same carriage (Note: following the Eiga Monogatari). When the Imperial Lady fell ill, it was rumored in the world that it was the curse of the monk Raigō. The Retired Emperor commanded the most eminent monks of the day to exorcise it, but there was no effect (Note: following the Gukanshō). At her death the Retired Emperor grieved and lamented profoundly, and shaved his head within that same year (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Gukanshō, the Hyakurenshō, and the Imakagami). Emperor Horikawa did not attend to government for three days (Note: following the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku). That summer, dengaku was wildly popular in the capital. The people of the city, high and low, vied with one another in extraordinary costumes and spared no expense. They made merry day and night without pause, and filled the streets. The Imperial Lady was especially fond of it and often summoned dengaku troupes into the Retired Emperor's palace, so for a time everyone followed suit. Civil and military ministers alike competed to devise novel fancies and exceeded the limits set by the regulations, and the people of the time took this as an ill omen (Note: consulted the "Account of Dengaku in Rakuyō" contained in the Chōya Gunsai, and the Imakagami). The following year Emperor Horikawa held the dedication ceremony of the Hokke-in of Onjōji, fulfilling the Imperial Lady's wish made in her lifetime. The Retired Emperor held the dedication of the Enkō-in, and also converted the Imperial Lady's former residence into a Buddhist hall, offering prayers for her repose (Note: following the Hyakurenshō).

[Toba] Nine Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Zenshi was born to the Nyōgo, Consort, Fujiwara-no-Michiko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Chūyūki, and the Eiga Monogatari). In the third year of Jōryaku (1079) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). In the first year of Kanji (1087) she was chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Teiō Hennenki. ○ The Eiga Monogatari gives the second year of Ōtoku, and the Kijoshō gives the fourth year of Jōhō). In the third year (1089) she went to Ise (Note: following the Saigū-ki). With the death of Emperor Horikawa she left the Priestess's office, and afterwards became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). In the twelfth month of the first year of Chōshō (1132) she died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, and the entry for the second year of Jishō in the Sankaiki). She was fifty-six years old (Note: following the Chūyūki). She was called the Rokkaku Saigū, the Rokkaku Priestess (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Saigū-ki, the Kijoshō, and the Renchūshō).

[Go-Shirakawa] Six Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Reishi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Teishi by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Imakagami, and the Eiga Monogatari). In the third year of Jōryaku (1079) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Suisaki). The following year she was granted a separate fief of five hundred households. In the first year of Ōtoku (1084) she became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). In the third year of Kanji (1089) she was chosen by divination as Saiin, High Priestess of Kamo (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Saiin-ki, and the Kijoshō. ○ The Eiga Monogatari gives the second year). In the third year of Jōtoku (1099) she left the Priestess's office (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). In the second year of Kajō (1107) she became the Jun-bo of Emperor Toba (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Chūyūki). At the emperor's accession she would properly have been installed as Empress, but the Retired Emperor, bearing in mind that the Jun-bo Ikuhōmon-in had been added to the rank of empress as a precedent and had not lived long, had his ministers debate the matter. Some said that it was improper to install an empress during the period of imperial mourning. Fujiwara-no-Munetada, Gon-chūnagon, Provisional Middle Counsellor, said, "The present emperor is still young and cannot be made to ride the palanquin alone. Moreover, since there is no Empress Dowager, what objection could there be to installing the Jun-bo as Empress?" In the end she was installed as Kōgō. In the first year of Tennin (1108) she withdrew to the Nijō mansion and lived there (Note: following the Chūyūki). In the third year of Chōshō (1134) she became Grand Empress Dowager (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Ichidai Yōki. ○ The Teiō Hennenki gives the fifth year). Her passing directly from Empress to Grand Empress Dowager was the first such instance (Note: following the Chūyūki). In the fifth year of Daiji (1130) she shaved her head and became a nun (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Rekidai Kōki). In the fourth month of the first year of Ten'yō (1144) she died (Note: following the Taiki, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Rekidai Kōki). She was sixty-seven years old (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Rekidai Kōki). She was buried at Sekiin (Note: following the Taiki). She was called the Nijō Ōmiya, the Great Lady of Nijō (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Kijoshō). The Retired Emperor Toba put on mourning garb and grieved deeply (Note: following the Taiki, and the entry for the fifth year of Bunji in the Gyokukai).

¶Imperial Princess Teishi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Teishi by the same mother (Note: following the Kijoshō and the Eiga Monogatari). She was brought up as an adopted daughter of the Empress Fujiwara, consort of Emperor Go-Reizei (Note: following the Suisaki and the Heihanki). In the second year of Eihō (1082) she was made an Imperial Princess. In the second year of Ōtoku (1085) she was granted a separate fief of three hundred households. In the first year of Jōtoku (1097) she became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki. ○ As to the time she became Jun-sangū, this work notes one account giving the first year of Ōtoku). In the first year of Kōwa (1099) she was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Saiin-ki, the Kijoshō, and the entry for the first year of Kaō in the Heihanki). In the second year of Kajō (1107) she resigned because of illness (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki). She had deep faith in the Buddhist law and often invited monks to hear them preach. She also loved waka (Note: following the Imakagami). In the first month of the first year of Hōgen (1156) she died at the Hōjūji-dono, at the age of seventy-six (Note: following the Heihanki and the Ichidai Yōki. The location of the Hōjūji-dono follows the Ichidai Yōki). She was called the Tsuchimikado Saiin (Note: following the Saiin-ki, the Ichidai Yōki, the Kijoshō, and the Renchūshō), and also the Biwa Saiin (Note: following the Heihanki).

¶Imperial Princess Junshi was born to a palace attendant of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imakagami. ○ This work writes the name elsewhere always as the character for "Junshi" written with the radical for "person," but here follows the Ichidai Yōki). In the first year of Tennin (1108) she was made an Imperial Princess and chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Imakagami. Her elevation to Imperial Princess follows the Chūyūki. ○ The Renchūshō and the Kijoshō give the first year of Kahō, which is mistaken). In the first year of Ten'ei (1110) she went to Ise (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Ichidai Yōki). In the early years of Hōan she fell ill, and the Retired Emperor offered heihaku to the Grand Shrine to pray for her. In the tenth month of the first year of Chōshō (1132) she died (Note: following the Chūyūki). She was called the Higuchi Saigū, the Higuchi Priestess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kijoshō, and the Teiō Hennenki).

¶Imperial Princess Kanshi was born to a palace attendant of the Minamoto clan (Note: following the Chūyūki, the entry for the second year of Kyūan in the Taiki, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Imakagami. ○ The Kōin Shōunroku writes her name with the character for "Miyako"). In the first year of Tengen she was made an Imperial Princess and chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Kijoshō, and the Chūyūki. Her elevation to Imperial Princess follows the Chūyūki). She was called the Seiwa-in Saiin (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Ichidai Yōki, the Kijoshō, the Saiin-ki, and the Renchūshō. ○ The Imakagami gives Seiga-in).

¶[Horikawa] Two Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Sōshi was born to a palace attendant of the Ō clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Saiin-ki, and the Kijoshō). In the fourth year of Hōan (1123) she was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kijoshō). In the first year of Daiji (1126) she resigned because of the death of her mother (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Teiō Hennenki). In the eleventh month of the second year of Ōhō (1162) she died, at the age of sixty-four (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). She was called the Ōmiya Saiin (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kijoshō, and the Imakagami).

¶Imperial Princess Kishi lacks a record of her mother's clan. In the first year of Ninpei (1151) she was made an Imperial Princess and chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki. ○ One manuscript of the Kōin Shōunroku records among the emperor's daughters an Imperial Princess Kaishi, but since she does not appear in any other work, she is not adopted here).

¶[Toba] Nine Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Kishi was born to the Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Teiō Hennenki). In the third year of Hōan (1122) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Ichidai Yōki), granted First Rank (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Kōin Keizu), and became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Rekidai Kōki). In the first year of Chōshō (1132) she was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kijoshō). In the ninth month of the second year (1133) she resigned because of illness (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Chōshūki), and the following month she died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Imakagami). She was twelve years old (Note: ○ The Ichidai Yōki gives her age as fourteen, but here, reckoning her birth year from this work's own account, that is followed). Emperor Sutoku suspended the conduct of government for three days (Note: following the Imakagami). She was called Ippon-no-Miya, the First Rank Princess (Note: following the Chūyūki, the Chōshūki, and the Kijoshō).

¶Imperial Princess Tōshi was at first named Junshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Shōun Yakuryaku, and the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Hyakurenshō, the Renchūshō, and the Imakagami write Tōshi with a different character for "ko." One manuscript of the Shōunroku lists, besides Tōshi, a separate Imperial Princess Junshi and makes her a child of Taikenmon-in, but since she does not appear in any other work, she is not adopted here). She was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Kishi by the same mother (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Chūyūki, and the Imakagami). In the first year of Daiji (1126) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Imakagami). In the second year (1127) she became a Jun-sangū and was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Chūyūki and the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Kijoshō and the Saiin-ki give the third year, and the Gokyū Ryakuden says she was Saigū of Ise, all of which are mistaken). In the first year of Chōshō (1132) she resigned because of illness (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the third year of Hōgen (1158) she was installed as Kōgō as Jun-bo of the emperor (Note: following the Gokyū Ryakuden and the Imakagami. ○ The Nyoin Shōden makes her the Jun-bo of Emperor Nijō, which is mistaken). In the first year of Heiji (1159) she was presented with the court title Jōsaimon-in (Note: following the Yūkaiki). In the first year of Eiryaku (1160) she shaved her head at the Hōkongōin (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Shōun Yakuryaku. The location of the Hōkongōin follows the Gokyū Ryakuden. ○ The Imakagami treats this as an event of the second year), and her Dharma name was Shinnyori (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Renchūshō. ○ The Gokyū Ryakuden gives Kongōkan, which is mistaken). In the seventh month of the fifth year of Bunji (1189) she died at the Rokujō-in, at the age of sixty-four (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Shōun Yakuryaku. The location of the Rokujō-in follows the Rekidai Kōki. ○ The Kōki gives her age as sixty-five, and the Gokyū Ryakuden as sixty-one, both of which are mistaken). Emperor Go-Toba did not attend to government for three days (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku). The Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa put on mourning garb and did not take it off even after ten days had passed. The Sesshō, Regent, Fujiwara-no-Kanezane admonished him, saying: "A sovereign ought to shorten the period of mourning for collateral kin. Now Your Majesty's grief exceeds what the rites require, and even after ten days you have not received your ministers, and the presentation of state business has been held up. I beg you to restrain your feelings and moderate your sorrow, and so answer the hopes of the court." The Retired Emperor followed his advice (Note: following the Gyokukai).

¶Imperial Princess Kenshi was born to a palace attendant of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imakagami). In the first year of Kōji (1142) she was chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Teiō Hennenki) and became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). Later she became a nun (Note: following the Imakagami). In the tenth month of the first year of Ōhō (1161) she died (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). She was called the Yoshida Saigū, the Yoshida Priestess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kijoshō, and the Imakagami).

¶Imperial Princess Eishi was born to the Kōgō, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Taiki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imakagami), and was brought up as an adopted daughter of the Kaya-no-in (Note: following the Taiki, the Imakagami, and the Jikkinshō). In the second year of Hōen (1136) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). In the third year (1137) she became a Jun-sangū. In addition to her original fief, one thousand households were added, and the appointment of household officials and the conferral of court rank were all the same as in earlier precedents (Note: following the Yūhai Shiyōshō). In the twelfth month of the fourth year of Kyūan (1148) she died at the Kaya-no-in, at the age of fourteen (Note: following the Taiki and the Ichidai Yōki. The location of the Kaya-no-in follows the Ichidai Yōki. The Yōki says it was the second month, but here it is corrected on the basis of the Taiki). She was called the Kaya-no-in-no-Miya (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). Emperor Konoe suspended the conduct of government on her account (Note: following the Taiki).

¶Imperial Princess Shōshi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Eishi by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Imakagami). In the fourth year of Hōen (1138) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). The Retired Emperor Toba cherished Shōshi especially and had her brought up within the palace. When Emperor Konoe was still Crown Prince, Shōshi said to the Retired Emperor, "If the young prince becomes Crown Prince, then I shall be the Crown Prince's elder sister." At that time Shōshi was only three years old. The Retired Emperor was delighted by her cleverness and said with a laugh, "How could there be such a title in the world as 'elder sister of the Crown Prince'?" (Note: following the Imakagami). In the second year of Kyūan (1146) she became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Taiki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden), was granted nengan and nenshaku, annual appointments and annual conferrals of rank, and in addition to her original fief received a further one thousand households (Note: following the Taiki). When Emperor Konoe died, the Retired Emperor wished to put Shōshi on the throne, but the Kanpaku, Chancellor, Fujiwara-no-Tadamichi remonstrated with him and dissuaded him (Note: following the Gukanshō and the Kojidan, and consulting also the Imakagami). In the second year of Hōgen (1157) she shaved her head (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden). Her Dharma name was Kongōkan (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Renchūshō. ○ The Teiō Hennenki gives Kongōkaku, and one version of the Nyoin Shōden also gives Kongōshō). When Emperor Nijō ascended the throne, she became his Jun-bo. In the first year of Ōhō (1161) she was presented with the court title Hachijō-in. Her being given a court title without having become Empress was the first such instance (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Imakagami; the Ichidai Yōki and the Kōin Shōunroku have also been consulted). In the sixth month of the first year of Kenryaku (1211) she died (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden). She was seventy-five years old (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Gokyū Ryakuden). She had deep faith in the Buddhist law and once founded the Rengeshin-in (Note: following the Ninna-ji Shodōki).

¶Imperial Princess Maishi (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, the Gokyū Ryakuden, and the Shōun Yakuryaku. ○ The Taiki and the Renchūshō write her name with a different character) was at first named Hisako (Note: following the Taiki). She was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Eishi by the same mother (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden, the Gokyū Ryakuden, and the Shōun Yakuryaku). She became the Chūgū of Emperor Nijō (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Gokyū Ryakuden).

¶Imperial Princess Shōshi (Note: following the Kōtei Kishō, the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kōin Shōunroku. ○ One version of the Shōunroku gives Tenshi, and the Imakagami and the Kōin Keizu give Kōshi) was born to a palace attendant of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Taiki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Imakagami). In the first year of Jōan (1171) she was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Kōtei Kishō and the Ichidai Yōki). In the eighth month she resigned because of illness (Note: following the Kōtei Kishō and the Teiō Hennenki). In the ninth month of the second year of Jōgen (1208) she died, at the age of sixty-four (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). She was called the Itsutsuji Saiin (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki and the Hyakurenshō), and also the Kasuga Himemiya, the Princess of Kasuga (Note: following the Imakagami and the Renchūshō).

¶Ayano-gozen (Note: following the Imakagami) was born to a palace attendant of the Ki clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Imakagami, and the Genealogy of the Ki Clan). She shaved her head and lived at Sōrinji (Note: following the Imakagami), and was called the Sōrinji-no-Miya (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Genealogy of the Ki Clan, and the Imakagami).

¶The Takamatsu-no-Miya has lost her name, and was born to a palace attendant of the Fujiwara clan (Note: consulted the Kōin Shōunroku, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Imakagami. ○ On consideration: the Imakagami mentions a Seiga-in Himemiya and a Saiin Himemiya, but neither can be confirmed in any other work. Further, the Hennenki mentions a Hanazono-no-Miya and says she became Saigū of Ise, but it does not record her mother's clan or the year and month she became Priestess. These are appended here for reference).

¶[Go-Shirakawa] Six Daughters

¶Imperial Princess Ryōshi was born to Fujiwara-no-Nariko, of Junior Third Rank (Note: following the Kikki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōin Keizu, and the Imakagami). In the first year of Hōgen (1156) she was made an Imperial Princess and chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise. In the third year (1158), at the emperor's abdication, she never went to Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Eiju she was installed as Kōgō, since she was the emperor's Jun-bo (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). At the accession of Emperor Go-Toba she again became Jun-bo (Note: following the entry for the third year of Bunji in the Gyokukai; the Ichidai Yōki and the Nyoin Shōden have also been consulted). In the third year of Bunji (1187) she was presented with the court title In'pumon-in (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden). In the third year of Kennin (1203) she shaved her head and became a nun (Note: ○ The Teiō Hennenki gives the second year of Kenkyū, and the Gokyū Ryakuden gives the third year of Kenkyū), and her Dharma name was Shinnyokan (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Gokyū Ryakuden gives Shinshōri). In the fourth month of the fourth year of Kenpō (1216) she died, at the age of seventy (Note: following the Ninna-ji Hinamiki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden. ○ The Rekidai Kōki gives her age as seventy-four). She was buried in the East New Hall of the Hōkongōin (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Ninna-ji Hinamiki gives the Yasui Hokkedō). She once founded the Rengekō-in (Note: following the Ninna-ji Shodōki).

¶Imperial Princess Shokushi was a younger sister of In'pumon-in by the same mother (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Saiin-ki, and the Kijoshō). She excelled at waka (Note: following the Saiin-ki. ○ The poems of hers that entered the imperial anthologies number about one hundred and fifty-seven. The Shin Kokin Wakashū records one of them, in which she sings that if the thread of her life, her string of jewels, is to break, let it break now, for if she lives on, her strength to endure and keep her hidden love secret may weaken). In the first year of Heiji (1159) she was chosen by divination as Saiin of Kamo (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Saiin-ki) and became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Kōin Keizu, and the Kijoshō). In the first year of Kaō (1169) she resigned because of illness (Note: following the Kōtei Kishō and the Teiō Hennenki). In the eighth year of Kenkyū (1197), she was implicated in the affair of the Kurōdo, Chamberlain, Tachibana-no-Kanenaka and the monk Kanshin, and should have been expelled from the capital, but was left as she was, without further inquiry (Note: following the Kōtei Kishō). Afterwards she shaved her head, and her Dharma name was Shōnyohō. She was called the Ōinomikado Saiin (Note: following the Saiin-ki), and also the Takakura-no-Miya (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōin Keizu).

¶Imperial Princess Kōshi was a younger sister of In'pumon-in by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōin Keizu). In the third year of Hōgen (1158) she was made an Imperial Princess and chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kijoshō. Her elevation to Imperial Princess follows the Ichidai Yōki). In the first year of Eiryaku (1160) she went to Ise (Note: following the Saigū-ki).

¶Imperial Princess Kyūshi was a younger sister of In'pumon-in by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the first year of Nin'an (1166) she was chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kijoshō). In the third year (1168), at the emperor's abdication, she resigned as Priestess. In the third month of the first year of Jōan (1171) she died, at the age of fifteen (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki).

¶Imperial Princess Junshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Hyakurenshō, the Kijoshō, and the Imakagami. ○ The Ichidai Yōki writes Jun with the character for "Sō," the Rekidai Kōki with a character for "Chō," and the Teiō Hennenki with the character for "Jun" meaning "pure." ◎ The proper form of the character "Chō" is written with the heart radical beside the character for "heavy") was born to a palace attendant of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Kōin Keizu). In the third year of Nin'an (1168) she was chosen by divination as Saiō of Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, and the Kijoshō). In the second year of Kaō (1170) she went to Ise (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Saigū-ki). In the fifth month of the second year of Jōan (1172) she died at the Saigū-ryō, the Office of the Priestess (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki. ○ The Rekidai Kōki and the Teiō Hennenki give the sixth month). She was sixteen years old (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki). She was called the Horikawa-no-Miya.

¶Imperial Princess Chikushi was born to Takashina-no-Eishi, of Junior Second Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Hyakurenshō, and the Nyoin Shōden). In the fifth year of Bunji (1189) she was made an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden) and became a Jun-sangū (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden). In the second year of Kenkyū (1191) she was presented with the court title Sen'yōmon-in (Note: following the Gyokukai, the Ichidai Yōki, and the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Renchūshō gives the first year of Kenkyū, which is mistaken), and was granted nengan and nenshaku (Note: following the Ingō Sadame Burui-ki). The Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa cherished her especially and lived together with her at the Rokujō-dono (Note: following the Gyokukai and the Ingō Sadame Burui-ki). In the second year of Genkyū (1205) she shaved her head (Note: following the Meigetsuki, the Rekidai Kōki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Gokyū Ryakuden), and her Dharma name was Shōenchi (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Gokyū Ryakuden). In the sixth month of the fourth year of Kenchō (1252) she died at the Fushimi-dono (Note: following the Hyakurenshō and the Ichidai Yōki). She was seventy-two years old (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Nyoin Shōden. ○ The Gokyū Ryakuden gives sixty, which is mistaken).