Empress Go-Sakuramachi
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Empress Go-Sakuramachi was the 117th monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. She was named after her father Emperor Sakuramachi, with the word go before her name translatin
18th century portrait
Imperial Crown of Empress Go-Sakuramachi
Emperor Momozono
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Emperor Momozono was the 116th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Momozono's reign spanned the years from 1747 until his death in 1762. Momozono's reign was mostly qui
Empress Go-Sakuramachi
…Sakuramachi and Nijō Ieko in 1740. She was the middle of three children, Princess Noriko, older, who died age 10 and Prince Toohito, younger, later Emperor Momozono. Her father died when she was young, and so the Tokugawa shogunate granted her mother some land, and gave the princess herself 300 koku of land as there…
Portrait by Hiramatsu Tokiyuki, 1762