Fujiwara no Otomuro (藤原乙牟漏; �u͍ʑiwaɽa no otomuɽo 760 – April 28, 790) was a Japanese noblewoman and

Empress consort of Japan The Empress of Japan is the title given to the wife of the Emperor of Japan or a female ruler in her own right. In Japanese, the empress consort is called . The current empress consort is Empress Masako, who ascended the throne with her husband o ...

. Her sister was Fujiwara no Moroane. Fujiwara no Otomuro was a daughter of a noble called

Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu was a Japanese statesman, courtier, and politician of the Nara period. He was the second son of the founder of the Shikike branch of the Fujiwara, Fujiwara no Umakai. His original name was . He was the maternal grandfather of the emperors Heizei a ...

; her mother was the granddaughter of general Fujiwara no Umakai, who died in 737.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Umakai" in ; Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). She married

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. Their children included: *

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She also had a daughter, Princess Koshi. Her daughter-in-law was Lady

Tachibana no Kachiko , also known as , was a Japanese empress, the chief consort of Emperor SagaPonsonby-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 ...

.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 allusive ...

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