Imperial Princesses VI

[Go-Saga] Sixth Daughter

¶(Emperor Go-Saga, sixth daughter)

[Go-Fukakusa] Fifth Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Sōshi was born to a Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kijoshō). She was adopted by Anka Mon'in (Note: following the Hyakurenshō). In the first year of Hōji (1247) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Hyakurenshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). Soon afterwards she was granted First Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the third year of Kōchō (1263) she became a Jusangū, holder of the honorary rank of the Three Empresses (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden), and the court title of Gekka Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). She had secret relations with Minamoto-no-Hikohito, Sakonoe-no-chūjō, Middle Captain of the Left Guards, and with Fujiwara-no-Motoaki. In the third month of the sixth year of Bun'ei (1269) she died suddenly (Note: following the Masukagami; the Ichidai Yōki gives the second month, and the Kōgū Ryakuden the sixth month). She was twenty-three (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

[Kameyama] Twelfth Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Etsushi was born to a Kyūjin, Palace Lady, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the seventh year of Kōan (1284) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess and became a Jusangū (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). The court title of Ensei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the eighth year (1285) she left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden), taking the Buddhist name Henjōkaku (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the second month of the second year of Genkō (1332) she died. She was seventy-four (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

[Go-Uda] Fourth Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Ekishi was born to a Naishi-no-jō, Handmaid, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōgū Ryakuden, and the Nyoin Shōden). In the second year of Shōō (1289) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess, became a Jusangū, and the court title of Gojō In was bestowed on her (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden; the Kijoshō places this in the third year of Shōō). In the eleventh month of the second year of Einin (1294) she died (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku). She was thirty-three (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). She had once secretly borne a daughter to Emperor Kameyama (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Masukagami).

[Fushimi] Fourth Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Gaishi was born to a Kōi, Consort, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Keizu and the Masukagami). In the second year of Kōchō (1262) she became the Saiō, High Priestess of Ise (Note: following the Saigūki and the Ruijū Daibunin). In the first year of Bun'ei (1264) she went down to Ise (Note: following the Ruijū Daibunin). In the fourth year (1267) she became a Jusangū. When Emperor Kameyama died, she was relieved of her post as High Priestess. In the eleventh year (1274) she returned to the capital and lived at Kinugasa. Her form and features were lovely and radiant, so that her brightness dazzled the eye. Emperor Kameyama once secretly had relations with her. She was also involved with Fujiwara-no-Morotada, Minister of the Left, and with Fujiwara-no-Sanekane, Gon-dainagon, Provisional Major Counsellor (Note: following the Masukagami). In the second month of the seventh year of Kōan (1284) she died (Note: following the Masukagami and the Rekidai Kōki). She was thirty-six (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki).

[Go-Fushimi] Seventh Daughter

¶A certain Imperial Princess was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Ekishi by the same mother. She became an Imperial Princess and was known as Yanagidono (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

[Go-Nijō] Fourth Daughter

¶A certain Imperial Princess was a child born in secret to Emperor Go-Nijō and Imperial Princess Taishi (Note: following the Masukagami; even after consulting the Kōin Shōunroku and the various other books, no order of birth among the sisters is given, so there is nothing by which to examine the matter). Because her mother was of high standing, she received special favor. Her appearance was of unrivaled beauty. The emperor once said, "If a foreign country were to ask for a portrait of a beautiful woman, we ought to paint this child and send it." Later she lived in the house of Fujiwara-no-Takayuki, Gon-chūnagon, Provisional Middle Counsellor, the husband of her wet nurse, and became pregnant by Takayuki's son, Takayasu, Sangi, Counsellor. In the fourth year of Kōan (1281) she died in childbirth (Note: following the Masukagami; the office of Gon-chūnagon is according to the Kugyō Bunin).

[Hanazono] Fifth Daughter

¶(Emperor Go-Fukakusa, fifth daughter)

[Go-Daigo] Nineteenth Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Reishi was born to a Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). She became Empress of Emperor Go-Uda (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki).

[Go-Murakami] First Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Kyūshi was born to the Kyūjin, Palace Lady, Fujiwara-no-Onshi (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). She cultivated the virtues proper to a woman (Note: following the Entairyaku). In the fourth year of Shōō (1291) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the second year of Einin (1294) she became a Jusangū (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōgū Ryakuden; the Nyoin Shōden places this in the fourth year of Shōō), and the court title of Eiyō Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki, the Nyoin Shōden, the Kōgū Ryakuden, and the Kijoshō). In the second year of Kagen (1304) she left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden), taking the Buddhist name Shinnyochi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Nyoin Shōden), which she later changed to Shinshōchi (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the fourth month of the first year of Shōhei (1346) she died at the convent of imperial nuns at Sagano. She was seventy-five (Note: following the Entairyaku; the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden give seventy-four. Here the account of this book is followed, on the basis of a record in a certain work that she was twenty-three in the second year of Einin).

Imperial Princesses of the Northern Court

¶Imperial Princess Eishi (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Kijoshō, and the Kōin Shōunroku; the Kōgū Ryakuden and the Ingō Jōbu Ruiki write her name differently) was born to a Jusangū of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the second year of Einin (1294) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess and became a Jusangū (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Kengen (1302) the court title of Yōtoku Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Kijoshō, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the first year of Tokuji (1306) she left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden), taking the Buddhist name Enkakuchi. In the eighth month of the seventh year of Shōhei (1352) she died (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). She was sixty-five (Note: recorded on the basis of the statement in the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden that she was nineteen in the year she left the world).

[Kōgon] First Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Eishi was born to the Kyūjin, Palace Lady, Fujiwara-no-Fusako (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). In the fourth year of Shōō (1291) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the fifth year of Einin (1297) she became a Jusangū (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden; the Kōgū Ryakuden gives the fourth year of Shōō, and the Rekidai Kōki the second year of Enkyō). In the second year of Enkyō (1309) the court title of Shōzen Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the fifth year of Shōwa (1316) she left the world and became a nun, taking the Buddhist name Shinshōjaku. In the third month of the third year of Engen (1338) she died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

[Kōmyō] Second Daughter

¶Imperial Princess Kishi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Reishi by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

[Go-Kōgon] Second Daughter

¶(Emperor Kameyama, twelfth daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Kishi was born to the Naishi-no-suke, Principal Handmaid, Fujiwara-no-Masako (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden; the Ichidai Yōki gives the name Hisako, which is mistaken). In the first year of Einin (1293) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the fourth year (1296) she became a Jusangū (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden), and the court title of Shōkei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the first year of Tokuji (1306) she left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden), taking the Buddhist name Shōjōgen (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Nyoin Shōden). In the third month of the first year of Shōchū (1324) she died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden; the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku gives the eleventh month). She was fifty-two (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden; the Rekidai Kōki gives fifty-five, but this book follows the statement that she was thirty-four in the year she left the world). Emperor Kameyama doted on Joai Mon'in (that is, Imperial Princess Kishi), gave her as her residence a detached palace on the bank of the Ōi River, and supported her generously. She was known in the world as the Kawabatadono Nyoin, Lady Cloistered Princess of Kawabata-dono (Note: following the Masukagami), and was also called the Tsuchimikado Nyoin (Note: following the Teiō Hennenki).

¶Imperial Princess Kenshi was born to an Empress of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Rishi (Note: the Ichidai Yōki gives the name Hanshi) was born to Fujiwara-no-Baishi, of Junior Second Rank (Note: following the Kōin Keizu). She was brought up by Ōmiya In (Note: following the Masukagami).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Nukikawa, a Zōshi, maidservant, in the service of Kyōgoku In (Note: following the Masukagami and the Ichidai Yōki). She was brought up in the house of Azechi-no-Nii-no-Tsubone, the emperor's wet nurse (Note: following the Masukagami), and married Iemoto, Kampaku, Regent (Note: following the Masukagami and the Kōin Shōunroku). When Iemoto died she left the world and became a nun, taking the Buddhist name Henjōkaku (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). In the first year of Gentoku (1329) she died (Note: following the Masukagami).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to a Naishi-no-suke of the Fujiwara clan. She married Morinori, Sesshō, Regent (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Masukagami).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was a child born in secret to Emperor Kameyama and Imperial Princess Ekishi. She was brought up in the household of Azechi-no-Nii-no-Tsubone. Even as a small child she was clever. When people asked who her mother was, she is said to have answered, "That I cannot tell you" (Note: following the Masukagami. Since the order of birth among the sisters cannot be examined, she is provisionally recorded here).

¶The remaining six Imperial Princesses are not known by name, nor is the clan of their mothers recorded (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. Consulting this book and the genealogies of the various monzeki temples, it is recorded that a daughter of Emperor Kameyama had relations with Emperor Go-Daigo and bore the monk Kōshō, but her name is not given. For now there is nothing by which to examine it).

¶(Emperor Go-Uda, fourth daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Jōshi was born to a Naishi-no-suke of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Masukagami, the Rekidai Kōki, the Kōin Shōunroku, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). The emperor doted on her (Note: following the Masukagami). In the first year of Kengen (1302) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden), and in the first year of Tokuji (1306) she became the Saiō, High Priestess of Ise (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the third year (1308), because Emperor Nijō had died, she did not proceed to Ise and was relieved of her post (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the first year of Gen'ō (1319) she was honored as Empress, and the court title of Tatchi Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kōgū Ryakuden, the Rekidai Kōki, and the Nyoin Shōden). Having gone into mourning for her mother, she cut her hair, taking the Buddhist name Shinrikaku (Note: following the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the eleventh month of the third year of Shōhei (1348) she died. She was sixty-three (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden. Her age has been corrected on the basis of the statement in this book that she was thirty-four in the first year of Gen'ō).

¶Imperial Princess Baishi was born to the Princess Rinshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku). As a small child she was brought up by Eika Mon'in. Emperor Go-Daigo took her in as Crown Prince's consort (Note: following the Masukagami; this book lacks the year and month). In the first year of Gen'ō (1319) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Karyaku (1326), when the Crown Prince died, she left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Masukagami). She was called Nyūdō-no-Miya, the Princess in Holy Orders. When she first entered the palace her belly swelled as though she were with child, but after seventeen months it subsided, and in the end she had no child. She cherished the children of the concubines as though she had borne them herself. In the first year of Genkō (1331), because the Retired Emperor Kōgon sought to install his grandson, Prince Yasuhito, as Crown Prince (Note: following the Masukagami), she became a Jusangū and the court title of Sūmei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki; the Jusangū rank is according to the Nyoin Shōden). When Emperor Go-Daigo returned to the capital, she was reduced to the status of Imperial Princess.

¶Imperial Princess Yushi was born to a woman of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to a woman of the Fujiwara clan. She left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki. Since the order of birth among the sisters is not clear in this book, she is provisionally recorded here).

¶(Emperor Fushimi, fourth daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Shukushi was born to Fujiwara-no-Sueko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Rekidai Kōki). In the first year of Einin (1293) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the second year of Enkyō (1309) she became a Jusangū (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Kōgū Ryakuden), and the court title of Sakuhei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the tenth month of the third year (1310) she died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the entry for the second year of Jōwa in the Entairyaku; the Kōgū Ryakuden places this in the preceding year, and the Ichidai Yōki in the first year of Shōwa). She was twenty-four (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden; the Kōgū Ryakuden gives twenty-five).

¶Imperial Princess Yoshi was born to Fujiwara-no-Hideko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Rekidai Kōki). As a small child she was brought up by Eifuku Mon'in (Note: following the Jitsumi-ki as quoted in the Ingō Jōbu Ruiki). In the third year of Einin (1295) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess and became a Jusangū (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the second year of Tokuji (1307) the court title of Shōgi Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kijoshō). In the second year of Shōwa (1313) she left the world (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). Her Buddhist name was Gedatsushin (Note: following the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the tenth month of the first year of Engen (1336) she died (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

¶Imperial Princess Enshi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Shukushi by the same mother (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Ōchō (1311) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess and became a Jusangū (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden; the Rekidai Kōki states that she became a Jusangū in the fourth year of Shōwa). In the fourth year of Shōwa (1315) the court title of Enmei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). In the first year of Bunpō (1317) she left the world and became a nun, taking the Buddhist name Shinshōe (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

¶Imperial Princess Shinshi, whose first name was a certain one, was born to a woman of the Fujiwara clan (Note: the various texts of the Kōin Shōunroku say that she was a daughter of Emperor Go-Fushimi and a younger sister, by the same mother, of Prince Jishin. The Ichidai Yōki, the Teiō Hennenki, the Entairyaku, the Sakusha Burui, and other books all treat her as a daughter of Emperor Fushimi and do not record her mother's clan. One variant of the printed Jōunroku agrees with them. Considering the matter now: it is said that Emperor Go-Fushimi had secret relations with Higashi-no-Onkata, who served in the household of Prince Fushimi, and that she bore Jishin. Therefore, following the various books, she is determined to be a daughter of Emperor Fushimi). She was brought up by a Naishi, Handmaid, of the Fujiwara clan in the service of Eifuku Mon'in (Note: "Fujiwara" is according to the Sakusha Burui). She lived at Kamo-no-shō in Harima province and later cut her hair and became a nun (Note: her Buddhist name is not recorded). Shinshi excelled at waka. When Emperor Hanazono was compiling the Fūgashū, he wished to include her poems, summoned her to the capital, had her presented to the Kōmyō In, and granted her in particular the status of Imperial Princess and her present name (Note: following the Entairyaku).

¶(Emperor Go-Fushimi, seventh daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Junshi was born to Fujiwara-no-Yasuko, a Jusangū (Note: following the Ichidai Yōki and the Nyoin Shōden). She became Chūgū, Empress, of Emperor Go-Daigo (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden).

¶Imperial Princess Kōshi was born to a Kyūjin, Palace Lady, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku, the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Sonpi Bunmyaku). In the first year of Engen (1336) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess and became a Jusangū (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). On the same day she shaved her head (Note: following the Kōgū Ryakuden; this book lacks her Buddhist name). The court title of Shōtoku Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Junshi by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to a Kyūjin, Palace Lady, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Entairyaku Keizu and the Sonpi Bunmyaku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to the Kyūjin, Palace Lady, Ukyō-no-Daibu-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Another Imperial Princess was likewise born to Ukyō-no-Daibu-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess: the clan of her mother is not recorded (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶(Emperor Go-Nijō, fourth daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Benshi (Note: the character "ben" in her name is originally written with the woman radical beside "ben") was born to a Naishi-no-jō, Handmaid, of the Taira clan (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the second year of Gen'ō (1320) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden), became a Jusangū (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden), and the court title of Jusei Mon'in was bestowed on her (Note: following the Kijoshō, the Nyoin Shōden, and the Kōgū Ryakuden). Soon afterwards she left the world and became a nun, praying for the repose of the emperor (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). Her Buddhist name was Shōjōen (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden).

¶Imperial Princess Minshi was born to Shin-Dainagon-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Eishi was born to a Kyūjin, Palace Lady, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Yōshi (Note: the character "yō" in her name is originally written with the woman radical beside "yō" in the sense of "sun") was born to a Kyūjin, Palace Lady, of the Taira clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Heishi Keizu).

¶(Emperor Hanazono, fifth daughter)

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Fujiwara-no-Saneko. She married a certain Fujiwara (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to a Naishi-no-suke of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Sonpi Bunmyaku).

¶Imperial Princess Jushi was a younger sister of the first Imperial Princess by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Nyoin Shōden). She was taken in as consort by the Retired Emperor Kōgon (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Shigō Zakki).

¶Imperial Princess Gishi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Jushi by the same mother (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku and the Entairyaku Keizu).

¶Imperial Princess Shukushi: the clan of her mother is not recorded (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶(Emperor Go-Daigo, nineteenth daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Kanshi was born to a Chūgū, Empress, of the Fujiwara clan (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Gen'ō (1319) she received the proclamation making her an Imperial Princess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden and the Kōgū Ryakuden) and was granted First Rank (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the second year of Gentoku (1330) she became the Saiō, High Priestess of Ise (Note: following the Masukagami and the Nyoin Shōden). In the first year of Genkō (1331) she became a Jusangū and was soon relieved of her post as High Priestess (Note: following the Nyoin Shōden). In the third year (1333) she was forced by the Retired Emperor Kōgon to become his consort (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki; the Nyoin Shōden was also consulted).

¶Imperial Princess Shōshi was born to an Empress of the Fujiwara clan. In the third year of Genkō (1333) she became the Saiō, High Priestess of Ise (Note: following the Rekidai Kōki). Later she entered Hōan-ji and became a nun (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū).

¶Imperial Princess Hishi was born to the Kyūjin, Palace Lady, Minamoto-no-Chikako. She became a nun and lived at Imabayashi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Ishi (Note: later in this book another Imperial Princess Ishi is recorded, and since the clans of their mothers differ, it is clear they are not the same person. There is probably an error in the writing of the name, but since it cannot now be determined which is correct, both are recorded as they stand) was born to Fujiwara-no-Tameko. She was granted First Rank (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Ishi was a younger sister of Imperial Princess Shōshi by the same mother. She became a nun, lived at Imabayashi, and was called the Washi-ama, the Heron Nun (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Ichijō-no-Tsubone. She became a nun and lived at Imabayashi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Saemon-no-Kami-no-Tsubone. She became a nun and lived at Imabayashi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Keishi was born to Fujiwara-no-Tameko (Note: following the Sakusha Burui). She left the world and became a nun (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was likewise born to Fujiwara-no-Tameko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Gon-Chūnagon-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to a daughter of Mototoki (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku; Mototoki's office and surname are not recorded).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Minbukyō-no-Tsubone. She married Mototsugu, Kampaku, Regent, but later was divorced from him (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to the Kyūjin, Palace Lady, Fujiwara-no-Saneko (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Dainagon-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Bōmon-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to the Chūgū, Empress, Junshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Gon-Dainagon-Sanmi-no-Tsubone (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶The remaining two Imperial Princesses are not known by name, nor is the clan of their mothers recorded (Note: the old manuscript of the Teiō Keizu lists Imperial Princess Yushi as a daughter of Emperor Go-Daigo, and the Sakusha Burui also lists Imperial Princess Kinshi. The Matsuoka Kakochō says that a certain Imperial Princess became a nun and lived at Tōkei-ji at Matsuoka in Kamakura, and was called the Abbess Yōdō; she is said to have died in the eighth month of the third year of Ōei (1396). The clan of the mother of any of them is not clear. They are probably included among the various Imperial Princesses, but for now there is nothing by which to examine the matter).

¶(Emperor Go-Murakami, first daughter)

¶A certain Imperial Princess (Note: examining the Shin'yō Wakashū, when Emperor Go-Murakami died, Shinsen'yō Mon'in exchanged poems with Kaki Mon'in. A poem on the spring moon from the hundred-poem sequence is likewise placed in the section of laments, and in all of them the words are full of deep grief, showing the utmost sorrow. Furthermore, a palace lady of Emperor Go-Daigo also offered a poem to Shinsen'yō Mon'in in mourning for Emperor Go-Murakami. Seen in this light, there is no longer any room to doubt that she was a daughter of Emperor Go-Murakami. Therefore this is now followed) is not known as to who her birth mother was (Note: according to the Kakimon'in-shū and the Shin'yō Wakashū, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year Emperor Go-Murakami died there is a poem composed on an old coverlet, in which something like the feeling between mother and child can be sensed. That she was granted First Rank and finally received a court title may also be because of her mother's high standing. But there is no clear proof, and the point is set aside for now). She was granted First Rank and was called Ippon-no-Miya, the Princess of First Rank. Emperor Go-Kameyama bestowed on her the court title of Shinsen'yō Mon'in (Note: following the Shin'yō Wakashū. According to this book, when Emperor Go-Murakami was at his temporary palace at Sumiyoshi, Shinsen'yō Mon'in was already called Ippon-no-Miya, and in the year after Emperor Go-Murakami died she was still called Ippon-no-Miya. By this, she was granted First Rank before Emperor Go-Murakami died. The Kakimon'in-shū was completed in the third year of Tenju (1377), and in it she is called Ippon-no-Miya. When Prince Muneyoshi presented the Shin'yōshū in the first year of Kōwa (1381), she is called Shinsen'yō Mon'in in the collection. From the third year of Tenju to the first year of Kōwa is a span of five years. The bestowal of the court title probably took place within this period, and so it is recorded as an event of Emperor Go-Kameyama's reign).

¶(Appendix: Imperial Princesses of the Northern Court)

¶(Emperor Kōgon, first daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Kōshi (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku): the clan of her mother is not recorded.

¶(Emperor Kōmyō, second daughter)

¶The remaining two Imperial Princesses are not known by name, nor is the clan of their mothers recorded (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶(Emperor Go-Kōgon, second daughter)

¶Imperial Princess Chishi: the clan of her mother is not recorded. She was called Yanagidono Naishinnō, Imperial Princess Yanagidono (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku).

¶Imperial Princess Kenshi: the clan of her mother is not recorded. She was called Irie Naishinnō, Imperial Princess Irie (Note: following the Kōin Shōunroku. Considering the matter: the entry in the Gogu-maiki on the appointments of the first month of the third year of Eitoku records that, for the conferral of rank on Imperial Princess Chishi, of no rank, Junior Fifth Rank Lower was granted, and that Takashina-no-Tsuneie was granted Junior Fifth Rank Lower for Minamoto-no-Sadachika as that year's conferral for Imperial Princess Shōshi, of no rank. From this it appears that Imperial Princess Shōshi was also a sister of Chishi. But as there is no other clear proof, this theory is not adopted).

¶(Emperor Go-Enyū, second daughter)

¶A certain Imperial Princess was born to Tsūyō Mon'in (Note: following the Gogu-maiki).

¶A certain Imperial Princess: the clan of her mother is not recorded. She became a nun and lived at Daishō-ji (Note: following the Sakkaiki).