, born , was an empress consort (''
chūgū'') of
Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan. She was the adopted daughter of
Fujiwara no Yorimichi, and biological daughter of .
Life
Genshi's father Atsuyasu died in 1018. Her mother was the younger sister of
Fujiwara no Yorimichi's official wife, Princess Takahime, and so the daughterless Yorimichi adopted her.
In 1036, she acted as a substitute court lady in the purification ceremony at
Emperor Go-Suzaku's first ''niiname-sai'' harvest festival. The next year, she entered his court as a court lady, and received the
rank
Rank is the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level, etc. of a person or object within a ranking, such as:
Level or position in a hierarchical organization
* Academic rank
* Diplomatic rank
* Hierarchy
* ...
of . Two months later she was made ''chūgū'', displacing the existing empress consort
Princess Teishi
, also known as , was an empress consort of Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan. She was the second cousin of her husband.
Life
She was the third daughter of Emperor Sanjō and the mother of Emperor Go-Sanjō. In 1023, she had her coming of age ceremo ...
to ''
kōgō'' and souring relations between Teishi and Yorimichi. Favored by the Emperor, Genshi bore him two girls, but died in childbirth at the age of 23 without giving birth to a prince.
According to the , when Genshi was bathing ten days after giving birth, there was a great storm. Amidst the lightning and thunder and heavy rain, Genshi died on the spot. At the time, there was a rumor that the Fujiwara family god of
Kasuga-taisha was angered that Genshi had been made Empress through adoption into the
Fujiwara clan
was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until ...
, despite blood ties to the
Minamoto clan
was one of the surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility from 1192 to 1333. The practice was most prevalent during th ...
.
Issue
* Imperial Princess ''Yūshi''/Sukeko (祐子内親王) (1038–1105) - (Sanpon-Jusangū, 三品准三宮)
* Imperial Princess ''Baishi'' (禖子内親王) (Rokujō Saiin, 六条斎院) (1039–1096) -
Saiin at
Kamo Shrine 1046–1058
Notes
Fujiwara clan
Japanese empresses
1016 births
1039 deaths
Deaths in childbirth
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