Nakatsuhime

Nakatsuhime
仲姫命
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure270 – 311
Empress dowager of Japan
Tenureappointed in 311
Burial
Nakatsuyama Kofun
SpouseEmperor Ōjin
IssuePrincess Arata
Emperor Nintoku
Prince Netori
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherHondama-waka no Ō
MotherKanataya-no-hime no Mikoto

Nakatsuhime (仲姫命; Nakatsuhime-no-Mikoto) was the empress consort of Japan from 270 to 311, and then the empress dowager of Japan from 311 until an unknown date of death.[1][2] Her father was Prince Hondama-waka (品陀真若王; Hondama-waka no Ō) and her mother was Princess Kanataya (金田屋姫命; Kanataya-no-hime no Mikoto), and Nakatsuhime was herself a great-granddauguter of Emperor Keikō.[1][2]

Life

Nakatsuhime was born a great-granddauguter of Emperor Keikō.[2] Prior to becoming the empress consort, Emperor Ōjin took her sister as a consort.[2]

According to the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, the empress bore the emperor three children listed in the following order: Princess Arata,[a] Emperor Nintoku, and Prince Netori.[2][4]

Furthermore the emperor then took another sister of the empress as his consort.[4]

Following the death of Emperor Ōjin, she was appointed empress dowager, however, little else is written about her.[2][4] The Imperial Household Agency has designated her tomb as Nakatsuyama Kofun,[5] and it is the second largest tomb in that region after the Konda Gobyoyama Kofun, which is believed to be the tomb of her husband, Emperor Ōjin.[5][6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Listed in the Kojiki as The Lady of Arata in Ki.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 日本人名大辞典+Plus, デジタル版. "仲姫命(なかつひめのみこと)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-08-25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aston, W. G. (William George) (1896). Nihongi : chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. London : Published for the Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübrer & Co., Limited.
  3. ↑ Ō no, Yasumaro. Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Translated by Chamberlain, Basil Hall. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-4-8053-1833-1.
  4. 1 2 3 Ō no, Yasumaro. Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Translated by Chamberlain, Basil Hall. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-4-8053-1833-1.
  5. 1 2 "仲津山古墳(ナカツヤマコフン)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-08-25.
  6. ↑ "応神陵古墳(オウジンリョウコフン)とは？ 意味や使い方". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-08-25.
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