Fujiwara no Kimiko

{{family name hatnote|Fujiwara|lang=Japanese}}

{{Infobox royalty

|name = Saionji Kimiko
{{lang|ja|西園寺公子}}

|succession = Empress consort of Japan

|reign = 14 February 1257 – 6 January 1260

|consort = yes

|spouse = Emperor Go-Fukakusa

|issue = Princess Takako
Princess Reishi

|royal house = Imperial House of Japan

|father = Saionji Saneuji

|mother = Shijō Sadako

|birth_date = 1232

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|death_date = {{death date and age|1304|3|6|1232|df=y}}

|death_place = Heian-kyō (Kyōto)

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|burial_place =

|}}

Fujiwara no Kimiko (藤原(西園寺)公子; 1232 – 6 March 1304) was Empress of Japan as the consort of Emperor Go-Fukakusa, her nephew.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4UkhAAAAQBAJ&dq=Fujiwara+no+Kimiko+empress+1304&pg=PA109 Japanese Biographical Index] She was also known as Higashinijō‘in {{Nihongo|2=東二条院}}.{{Cite journal |last=Tonomura |first=Hitomi |date=2006 |title=Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court: Lady Nijō's Memoir |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/203139 |journal=Monumenta Nipponica |language=en |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=283–338 |doi=10.1353/mni.2006.0036 |issn=1880-1390}}

In 1293 (first year of the Einin era) she ordained as a Buddhist nun.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

;Issue:

  • Second daughter: Imperial Princess Takako {{Nihongo|2=貴子内親王}}
  • Third daughter: Imperial Princess Reishi {{Nihongo|2=姈子内親王}}, wife of Emperor Go-Uda

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{{succession box | before= Princess Teruko | title=Empress consort of Japan | after=Fujiwara no Saneko | years=1257–1260}}

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Category:Fujiwara clan

Category:Japanese empresses consort

Category:Japanese Buddhist nuns

Category:13th-century Buddhist nuns

Category:14th-century Buddhist nuns

Category:1232 births

Category:1304 deaths

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