Fujiwara no Otomuro

Fujiwara no Otomuro
藤原乙牟漏
Fujiwara no Otomuro; 藤原乙牟漏
Empress consort of Japan
Tenure	23 May 783 – 790
Born	760; Japan
Died	28 April 790; Japan
Burial	Nagaoka Mausoleum, Kyoto Prefecture, Mukō, Japan
Spouse	Emperor Kanmu
Issue	Emperor Heizei; Emperor Saga; Princess Koshi;
House	Fujiwara clan (by birth); Imperial House of Japan (by marriage)
Father	Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu
Mother	Abe 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]

Notes

^ Ponsonby-Fane, page 62.
^ Varley, p. 151; Brown, p. 279.
^ 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
^ Religion in Japanese History by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
^ 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
^ Boroff, Nicholas. (2006). National Geographic Traveler Japan. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
^ Adolphson, Mikael S., Edward Kamens and Stacie Matsumoto. (2006). Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824830137; OCLC 71542885

Japanese royalty
Preceded by Princess Inoe	Empress consort of Japan 783–790	Succeeded by Fujiwara no Taishi (granted title posthumously)