Hashimoto Natsuko

Hashimoto Natsuko (橋本 夏子, March 19, 1856 – November 14, 1873) was the second concubine of Emperor Meiji, and the mother of his first daughter Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto (稚高依姫尊).

Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto was stillborn, and Natsuko died of complications from her delivery.

[1] Natsuko was a daughter of the noblewoman Hashimoto Reiko (橋本麗子, 1835–1889), and she entered Meiji's service as a concubine in 1872.

Natsuko's tomb is at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery at Gokoku-ji in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

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