Prince Masahito

Prince Masahito
Yōkōin daijō-tennō
Prince Masahito, also known as Yōkōin daijō-tennō
Born(1552-05-16)16 May 1552
Died7 September 1586(1586-09-07) (aged 34)
Spouse
  • Fujiwara Haruko
  • Naishi No Tsubone
Issue
FatherEmperor Ōgimachi
MotherMadenokōji (Fujiwara) Fusako

Prince Masahito (誠仁親王, Masahito-shinnō, 16 May 1552 – 7 September 1586), also known as Prince Sanehito and posthumously named Yōkōin daijō-tennō, was the eldest son of Emperor Ōgimachi. He predeceased his father.

Masahito's eldest son was Imperial Prince Kazuhito (和仁親王, Kazuhito-shinnō, 1572–1617), who acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne on the abdication of Emperor Ōgimachi. Kazuhito would become known as Emperor Go-Yōzei.[1]

Later, Go-Yōzei elevated the rank of his father, even though his father's untimely death made this impossible in life. In this manner, Go-Yōzei himself could enjoy the polite fiction of being the son of an emperor.

  • 21–25 August 1598 (Keichō 3, 20-24th day of the 7th month): Buddhist rituals were performed in the Seriyoden of the Imperial Palace to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the death of the emperor's father.[2]

The actual site of Prince Masahito's grave is known. This posthumously elevated emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (misasagi) at Kyoto.

The Imperial Household Agency designates this location as Yōkōin's mausoleum. It is formally named Tsuki no wa no misasagi at Sennyū-ji.[1]

Genealogy

Parents

  • Father: Emperor Ogimachi (正親町天皇, 18 June 1517 – 6 February 1593)
  • Mother: Fujiwara Fusako (万里小路 房子; d.1580)

Consort and issue(s):

  • Wife (Nyobō): Fujiwara no (Kajūji) Haruko (藤原勧修寺 晴子, 1553 – 21 March 1660), later Jōtōmon'in (上東門院)
    • Daughter: Princess Eichu (永卲女王, 1569 – 1580)
    • First Son: Imperial Prince Kazuhito (和仁親王, 31 December 1571 – 25 September 1617)
    • Second Son: Imperial Prince Kusei (空性法親王, 1573 – 1650)
    • Third Son: Imperial Prince Priest Ryōjo (良恕法親王, 1574 – 1643)
    • Fourth Son: Unnamed Prince (b.1575)
    • Fifth Son: Imperial Prince Priest Kyo-i (興意法親王, 1576 – 1620)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (b. 1577)
    • Sixth Son: Prince Hachijō Toshihito (八条宮 智仁親王, 3 February 1579 – 29 May 1629)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (b. 1580)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (1581 – 1584)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (b. 1583)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (b.1584)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess
  • Wife (Nyobō): Naishi No Tsubone (典侍局, 1565 – 9 March 1616), daughter of Tamematsu Reizei (冷泉為益)
    • Daughter: Unnamed Princess (d. 1579)
    • Third Daughter: Princess Shigetsu (心月女王, 1580 – 1590)

Ancestry

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). Imperial House, p. 424.
  2. ^ de Visser, Willem Marinus. (1935). Ancient Buddhism in Japan, p. 691, p. 691, at Google Books
  3. ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 January 2018.

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