Fujiwara no Otomuro

In this Japanese name, the surname is Fujiwara.
Fujiwara no Otomuro
藤原乙牟漏
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure23 May 783 – 790
Born760
Japan
Died28 April 790
Japan
Burial
Nagaoka Mausoleum, Kyoto Prefecture, Mukō, Japan
SpouseEmperor Kanmu
Issue
HouseFujiwara clan (by birth)
Imperial House of Japan (by marriage)
FatherFujiwara no Yoshitsugu
MotherAbe no Komina

Fujiwara no Otomuro (藤原乙牟漏; [ɸu͍ʑiwaɽa no otomuɽo], 760 – April 28, 790) was a Japanese noblewoman and empress consort of Japan.[1] Her sister was Fujiwara no Moroane.

Fujiwara no Otomuro was a daughter of a noble called Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu;[2] her mother was the granddaughter of general Fujiwara no Umakai, who died in 737.[3]

She married Emperor Kanmu.[4] Their children included:

She also had a daughter, Princess Koshi.

Her daughter-in-law was Lady Tachibana no Kachiko.[7]

  1. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, page 62.
  2. ^ Varley, p. 151; Brown, p. 279.
  3. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujiwara no Umakai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 211, p. 211, at Google Books; Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 203., p. 203, at Google Books
  4. ^ Religion in Japanese History by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
  5. ^ Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5; OCLC 59145842
  6. ^ Boroff, Nicholas. (2006). National Geographic Traveler Japan. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
  7. ^ Adolphson, Mikael S., Edward Kamens and Stacie Matsumoto. (2006). Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824830137; OCLC 71542885