, also known as , was a Japanese empress, the chief consort of

Emperor Saga was the 52nd emperor of Japan,#Kunaichō, Emperor Saga, Saganoyamanoe Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional List of Emperors of Japan, order of succession. Saga's reign spanned the years from 809 through 823 ...

Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' pp. 318-319. and the daughter of .Ponsonby-Fane, p. 319. The empress was a devout Buddhist. She founded the Buddhist

Danrin-ji was Japan's first Zen temple, founded in Saga, Kyōto by order of Tachibana no Kachiko during the Jōwa era. The temple was destroyed by fire in 928, but was restored, and during the Muromachi period the temple was designated as one of Kyōto ...

temple complex, and for this reason, she came to be called Danrin''-kōgō.'' She died in the 4th day of the 5th month of 850.Adolphson, Mikael ''et al.'' (2006).

Genealogy

Lady Kachiko was born to Tachibana no Kiyotomo and his wife, Taguchi Michihime. In june 809, Tachibana no Kachiko married the new emperor. The marriage produced seventh children: two sons and five daughters.Her eldest son would succeed his father as Emperor of Japan and her eldest daughter married Prince Otomo, who later became

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. *Husband:

(嵯峨天皇, Saga-tennō, October 3, 786 – August 24, 842) **Son: Imperial Prince Masara (正良親王) later

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**Daughter: Imperial

Princess Seishi was an Empress consort of Japan. She was the empress consort of her paternal uncle Emperor Junna. She became empress in 827. Her husband abdicated in 833. Either when she was widowed in 840, or when her son was deposed as crown prince in 842, S ...

(正子内親王; 810–879), married to

**Daughter: Imperial Princess Hideko (秀子内親王; d. 850) **Son: Imperial Prince Hidera (秀良親王; 817–895) **Daughter: Imperial Princess Toshiko (俊子内親王; d. 826) **Daughter: Imperial Princess Yoshiko (芳子内親王; d. 836) **Daughter: Imperial Princess Shigeko (繁子内親王; d. 865)

Movies

In the acclaimed 2013 movie '' Avalokitesvara'', a loose adaptation of the

Putuoshan Mount Putuo (, from Sanskrit: " Mount Potalaka") is an island in Putuo District, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. It is a renowned site in Chinese Buddhism and is the bodhimaṇḍa of the bodhisattva Guanyin. Mount Putuo is one of the four sacr ...

genesis story,

Ryoko Nakano is a Japanese actress. Filmography Film * '' Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare'' (1976) * '' Never Give Up'' (1978) * '' Avalokitesvara'' (2013) * ''Yanagawa'' (2021) Television * ''Akai Meiro is a Japanese television series starring Ken Uts ...

starred as the Empress Dowager Tachibana Kachiko.

Notes

References

*Adolphson, Mikael S.,

Edward Kamens Edward Kamens (born 19 April 1952) is Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since 1986. His dissertation focused on the Buddhist setsuwa collection Sanbōe, and more recently he has written on allusiv ...

and Stacie Matsumoto. (2006)
''Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries.''
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
OCLC 71542885
*

Kōjien is a single-volume Japanese dictionary first published by Iwanami Shoten in 1955. It is widely regarded as the most authoritative dictionary of Japanese, and newspaper editorials frequently cite its definitions. As of 2007, it had sold 11 mil ...

, 6th edition * Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959)
''The Imperial House of Japan.''
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society
OCLC 194887
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