Princess Hasihito - Princess Hasihito

Japanese: 間人皇女 - はしひとのひめみこ

Year of death: 4th February 25th, 665 (3rd March 16th, 665)
Year of birth: Unknown
She was the daughter of Emperor Jomei and Empress Takara no Hime (later known as Empress Kogyoku and Empress Saimei) in the 7th century, and was the Empress of Emperor Kokutoku. She was also known as Empress Majin. Her elder brother was Emperor Tenchi, and her younger brother Emperor Tenmu. An article about her becoming empress appears in the seventh year of the Taika era (645). In the fourth year of the Hakuchi era (653), when the Emperor was at odds with Crown Prince Nakano Oe (Tenchi) over moving the capital from Naniwa Palace to Yamato-kyo, the Empress followed Nakano Oe to Yamato with her mother Kogyoku and her younger brother Prince Oama (Tenmu), which made the Emperor resentful and sent a poem to her: "I cannot pull out the horse I keep in my care, will anyone look at the horse I keep in my care?" In October of the following year, the Empress, together with Kogyoku, Nakano Oe, and Oama, visited the dying Emperor at Naniwa Palace. In March of the 4th year of the Tenchi era (665), Emperor Tenchi granted 330 alms to the deceased empress. In February of the 6th year, the empress was buried together with her mother, Empress Saimei, in the Koichiokakami Mausoleum. There is a theory that the reason for Tenchi's long reign as empress was due to his love affair with his half-sister (Princess Hajime), which was taboo at the time.

(Keiko Umemura)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：天智4.2.25(665.3.16)
生年：生年不詳
7世紀の舒明天皇と皇后宝皇女(のちの皇極・斉明天皇)の皇女で,孝徳天皇の皇后。間人大后ともいう。同母の兄は天智天皇,弟に天武天皇がいる。大化1(645)年7月に立后記事がみえる。白雉4(653)年,天皇が皇太子中大兄皇子(天智)と難波宮から倭故京への遷都を巡って対立したとき,皇后は母皇極や弟大海人皇子(天武)らと共に中大兄に従って倭へ移ったために,天皇はこれを恨んで,「鉗着け吾飼ふ駒は引出せず吾飼ふ駒を人見つらむか」の歌を送った。翌年10月,皇后は皇極,中大兄,大海人らと臨終の天皇を難波宮に見舞っている。天智4(665)年3月天智天皇は亡くなった皇后のために,330人の度者を許した。6年2月皇后は母の斉明天皇と共に小市岡上陵に合葬された。天智称制の長期化の理由を,当時タブーとされていた同母兄妹(間人皇女)との恋愛関係に求める説がある。

(梅村恵子)

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