Princess Inoue - Princess Inoue

Japanese: 井上内親王 - いのえないしんのう

Year of death: 27 April 775 (30 May 775)
Year of birth: Yoro 1 (717)
A deposed empress in the Nara period. Daughter of Emperor Shomu and his wife, Inukai Hirotoji. Empress of Emperor Kōnin. Also known as "Ikami." In 721, she was appointed by divination as the Saiō of Ise. Later, she became the wife of Prince Shirakabe (Kōnin) and became empress when the king ascended to the throne in 770, but in 770, she was deposed for high treason by a curse of a shaman or enmei. Her son, Prince Tato, was also deposed as crown prince. After being imprisoned, they both died on the same day in 770. The Hyakukawaden section of "Kugyō Bunin" suggests that Fujiwara Hyakukawa was behind the scenes working for Prince Yamabe (Emperor Kanmu), and it seems that they were poisoned. The "Suikyō" contains a mix of fact and fiction about the incident. She seemed to have survived by skillfully avoiding the fierce political struggles surrounding the throne, such as the death of her younger brother Prince Asaka (possibly poisoned) and the tragic ups and downs of her younger sister Princess Fuwa, but in the end she was placed in the glorious position of being responsible for the transition of the imperial line from the Tenmu line to the Tenchi line, and it was for this very reason that she suffered this tragedy. Perhaps due to fear of her vengeful spirit, she was restored to the throne after her death and was called Empress Dowager Yoshino. <References> Tsunoda Fumiei, "The Dethronement and Dethronement Incident in the Third Year of the Hoki Era" (Tsunoda Fumiei Collected Works, Volume 3)

(Akiko Yoshie)

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Japanese:

没年：宝亀6.4.27(775.5.30)
生年：養老1(717)
奈良時代の廃后。聖武天皇と夫人県犬養広刀自の皇女。光仁天皇の皇后。「いかみ」とも。養老5(721)年,伊勢の斎王に卜定。のち,白壁王(光仁)の妃となり,宝亀1(770)年に王の即位とともに立后するが,同3年には一転して巫蠱・厭魅という呪いによる大逆の罪で廃后。子の他戸親王も廃太子。幽閉ののち,同6年,ふたり同日に没。背後に山部親王(桓武天皇)のための藤原百川の働きがあったことが『公卿補任』百川伝にうかがえ,毒殺らしい。『水鏡』には虚実とりまぜて事件の詳細を記す。弟安積親王の死(毒殺か),妹不破内親王の悲惨な浮沈など,皇位を巡る激しい政争を巧みによけて生き抜いたかにみえたが,最後に天武系から天智系への皇統の転換を担う栄光の座につき,まさにその故にこの悲劇にみまわれた。怨霊への恐れからであろう,死後復位,吉野皇太后と称される。<参考文献>角田文衛「宝亀三年の廃后廃太子事件」(『角田文衛著作集』3巻)

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