Fujiwara no Kenshi (994–1027)

In 1004, she joined to the court and first was a lady-in-waiting for her older sister, Empress Shoshi.

Kenshi was reportedly the beautiful, spoiled favorite of her father, [3] and has been described as "willfully extravagant".

[4] Kenshi had no son, she only had a daughter, who was born in 1013, Imperial Princess Teishi.

Kenshi became the Empress Dowager but she was childless so she was not powerful as her sister, Shoshi.

[5] Unless otherwise noted (as BC), years are in CE / AD 1 individuals that were given the title of empress posthumously 2 individuals elevated to the rank of empress due to their position as honorary mother of the emperor 3 Shōshi served briefly as honorary empress for her younger brother Emperor Go-Daigo Unless otherwise noted (as BC), years are in CE / AD 1 individuals that were given the title of empress dowager posthumously 2 title removed in 896 due to a suspected affair with head priest of the Toko-ji Temple; title posthumously restored in 943 3 was made High Empress or de jure empress dowager during her husband's reign