Princess Inoe

Princess Inoue married her relative, the future Emperor Kōnin, thereby uniting the Tenmu and Tenji line of the Imperial House.

During the last reign of her half sister Empress Kōken (764-770), Inoue and her sister Fuwa where both involved in political plots with ambition to the succession of the throne: Fuwa wished to place her husband and sons on the throne, while Inoue wished to have her son Osabe appointed Crown Prince.

Both Inoue and Osabe was stripped of their titles, banished and imprisoned in house arrest, for having performed curses and practising black magic.

[5] [6] When the Emperor fell ill in 777, Inoue was believed to haunt him, and consequently, she was reinterred in an Imperial grave and rehabilitated; in 800, she was given back her title of Empress posthumously.

[7] Around 800, during the reign of Kammu, former Prince Yamabe, a shrine was built for her in Yamashiro Province (now Gojō, Nara), named Goryō Jinja.