Empress Nagako

  • Empress Kōjun
  • 香淳皇后
Formal portrait, c. 1928
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure25 December 1926 –
7 January 1989
Enthronement10 November 1928
Empress dowager of Japan
Tenure7 January 1989 –
16 June 2000
BornPrincess Nagako (良子女王)
(1903-03-06)6 March 1903
Tokyo, Japan
Died16 June 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 97)
Fukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Burial25 July 2000
Spouse
(m. 1924; died 1989)
Issue
Posthumous name
Empress Kōjun (香淳皇后)
HouseImperial House of Japan
FatherPrince Kuni Kuniyoshi
MotherChikako Shimazu
Signature

Nagako[a] (6 March 1903 – 16 June 2000),[1] posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun,[b][1] was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She was Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.[2]


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  1. ^ a b "Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun – The Imperial Household Agency". Kunaicho.go.jp. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ Downer, Lesely. Obituary: "Nagako, Dowager Empress of Japan," The Guardian (London). 17 June 2000.