Princess Yasuko, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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[媞子] daughter of Japanese emperor Shirakawa. She was titled empress
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About Princess Yasuko
- Princess Yasuko or Princess Teishi (?????, Teishi (Yasuko) Naishino; 1076–1096), later Ikuhomon’in (????) was an Honorary Empress of Japan to her brother Emperor Horikawa. She was the first daughter of Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Kenshi (1057-1084), and the sister of Emperor Horikawa.
- She served as the Saio of her father Emperor Shirakawa.
- In 1087, her father abdicated in favor of her brother Emperor Horikawa. In 1091, she was appointed Honorary Empress to her twelve-year-old brother the Emperor.
- It was rare for a sister to be appointed Empress of her own brother, but she was actually his nurse and adoptive mother, their mother having been dead since he was five.
- She retired as her brother's Empress in 1093.
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