Kiko Kawashima was born on 11 September 1966 in Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital in Suga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan, to Tatsuhiko Kawashima and Kazuyo Sugimoto. The family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the following year for her father to attend the famous Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. The family would later become a family of [read more]
Japan’s Princess Kako of Akishino was born as the second child of the now Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko; Kako Naishinnō was born at the Imperial Household Hospital in Tokyo on 29 December 1994. Her older sister is Princess Mako (b. 1991), and her younger brother is Prince Hisahito (b. 2006). Embed from [read more]
As Japan recently enthroned their new emperor, Naruhito, debates have surfaced on female ascension to the Japanese throne. Japan has had empresses regnant in the past, and before Japan was even a country, other women ruled like the legendary Queen Himiko of Yamatai-koku (a country in what is now Japan during the Yayoi period). Queen [read more]
Empress Go-Sakuramachi was the last of eight Empresses Regnant of Japan. Before her accession to the throne, she was known as Toshiko. She was born on 23 September 1740 as the second daughter of Emperor Sakuramachi and Nijō Ieko. Her elder sister Noriko died in childhood in 1746. Her younger half-brother was Prince Toohito, later [read more]
Before Empress Meishō succeeded as Empress Regnant of Japan, she was known as Oki-ko. She was born on 9 January 1624 as the second daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako. She grew up in the Inner Apartments of the Heian Palace. She was one of at least 33 (half) siblings. Het father abdicated in [read more]
Before Empress Kōken succeeded as Empress Regnant of Japan, she was known as Abe. She was born in 713 as the daughter of Emperor Shōmu and Empress Kōmyō. She succeeded her father upon his abdication in 749 and she survived two coup attempts. Her first reign ended in 758 when she abdicated in favour of [read more]
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