Princess Yoshiko (Kōkaku)

Princess Yoshiko (欣子内親王, Yoshiko-naishinnō, 11 March 1779 – 11 August 1846) was the empress consort of Emperor Kōkaku of Japan.

Although her own children died in infancy, she functioned as official mother to the heir who would become Emperor Ninkō.

[1] Yoshiko's father, Emperor Go-Momozono, died without a son when she was ten months old.

[2] Shortly after Emperor Kōkaku's death, Dowager Empress Yoshiko became a Buddhist nun.

[3] 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