Hashimoto Natsuko

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{{Nihongo|Hashimoto Natsuko|橋本 夏子||March 19, 1856 – November 14, 1873}} was the second concubine of Emperor Meiji, and the mother of his first daughter Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto (稚高依姫尊). Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto was stillborn, and Natsuko died of complications from her delivery.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMuPzoc23QMC&q=Hashimoto+Natsuko&pg=PA235|title=Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912|last=Keene|first=Donald|date=2005-06-14|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231518116|language=en}}

Natsuko was a daughter of the noblewoman Hashimoto Reiko (橋本麗子, 1835–1889), and she entered Meiji's service as a concubine in 1872. Natsuko's tomb is at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery at Gokoku-ji in Bunkyo, Tokyo.