Ōe Iwashiro

Ōe Iwashiro (大江磐代) (1744 – January 11, 1813) was the wife of Sukehito, Prince Kan'in.

[1][2] She was born in 1744 in Kurayoshi, Hōki Province (now Minatomachi, Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture) to father Iwamuro Muneken, a vassal of the Arao clan [ja], a retainer of the Tottori domain, and a mother who was a daughter of an iron wholesaler.

[1][2] At the age of 9, she moved to Kyoto with her father, who had become a Rōnin and a town doctor.

[3] She was adopted and served in the Kushige clan [ja], and by the time she was in her teens, she took the surname Tachibana.

Her eldest son, Prince Morohito,[4] took Princess Yoshiko, the only child of Emperor Go-Momozono, who had no sons, as his empress, by recommendation of his adopted mother, Empress Go-Sakuramachi.