Yosotarashi Hime

• Period: Legendary Period
• Occupation: Empress
• Family: Emperor Kōshō (husband) Emperor Kōan (son) Ameoshitarashihiko (son) Amenooshio (father) Okitsuyoso (brother)
• Birth: –
• Death: –

Yosotarashi Hime

Yosotarashi Hime (世襲足媛) was the wife of Emperor Kōshō and together the two of them had two sons; Emperor Kōan and Ameoshitarashihiko.¹²

She is said to have been the daughter of Amenooshio,³ and to have been the younger sister of Okitsuyoso.² However, the Nihongi and Jinnō Shōtōki state that Okitsuyoso was her father and not her brother.¹⁴

She was made Empress on the 29th year, Spring, 1st month, 3rd day of Kōshō‘s reign.¹

Later she was given the title of Kodaigo by her son in the 1st year, Autumn, 8th month, 1st day of his reign.¹

Footnotes

1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Chamberlain, B. H. (1932) “Translation of the Kojiki.” Kobe: J.L. Thompson & Co.
3. Ponsonby, F. (1959) “The Imperial House of Japan.” Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
4. Varley, H.P (1980) “A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.” New York: Columbia University Press.

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