Fujiwara no Kishi

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|name = Saionji Kishi
{{lang|ja|西園寺嬉子}}

|succession = Empress consort of Japan

|reign = 16 September 1261 – 9 January 1269

|consort = yes

|spouse = Emperor Kameyama

|issue =

|royal house = Fujiwara clan (by birth)
Imperial House of Japan (by marriage)

|father = Saionji Kinsuke

|mother =

|birth_date = 1252

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|death_date = {{death date and age|1318|5|26|1252|df=yes}}

|death_place = Heian-kyō (Kyōto)

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Fujiwara no Kishi (藤原(西園寺)嬉子; 1252 – 26 May 1318), (also called Senshi) later Imadegawa-in (今出川院), was an empress consort of Japan.{{Cite book |last1=Marra |first1=Michele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xasb6fgkoZIC&dq=kameyama+consort&pg=PA113 |title=The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature |last2=Marra |first2=Michael F. |date=1991-01-01 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-1364-2 |language=en}} She was one of the consorts of Emperor Kameyama. She was Saionji Kinsuke's daughter. The emperor did not show her high favour.

In 1283 she was ordained as a Buddhist nun and was given the Dharma name Busshōkaku (仏性覚).{{cite book |last1=Wispelwey |first1=Berend |title=Japanese Biographical Index |date=2013 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3110947984}}

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Category:Fujiwara clan

Category:Japanese empresses consort

Category:Japanese Buddhist nuns

Category:13th-century Buddhist nuns

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