Princess Minabe

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| spouse = Prince Takechi

| issue = Prince Nagaya
Prince Suzuka

| father = Emperor Tenji

| mother = Soga no Mei-no-iratsume

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{{nihongo|Princess Minabe|御名部皇女|Minabe no himemiko}} (? – ?) was a member of the royal family in Japan during the Asuka period. She was a daughter of Emperor Tenji.{{Cite book |last=Ebersole |first=Gary L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc3xDwAAQBAJ&dq=Minabe+tenji&pg=PA76 |title=Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan |date=2020-09-01 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-21829-8 |language=en}} Her mother was Lady Mei (姪娘), daughter of Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa no Maro {{Nihongo|2=蘇我倉山田石川麻呂}}. She was the elder sister of Princess Abe.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eMIUAAAAIAAJ |title=The Manyosu Translated and Annotated Book 1 |publisher=Brill Archive |pages=219 |language=en}}

She married Prince Takechi and had two sons: Prince Nagaya and Prince Suzuka.{{Cite book |last=Ebersole |first=Gary L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc3xDwAAQBAJ |title=Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan |date=2020-09-01 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-21829-8 |pages=76 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Farris |first=William Wayne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCNioYQ1HfsC |title=Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan |date=1998-05-01 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-2030-5 |pages=294 |language=en}} The two princes were successful in Japan's aristocratic society several decades later.