Princess Nakashi

{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|中磯皇女|date=January 2023}}

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|name = Nakashi

|succession = Empress consort of Japan

|reign = 455–456

|spouse = Emperor Ankō

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|royal house = Imperial House of Japan

|father = Emperor Richū

|mother = Princess Kusakanohatabino

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|death_date = after 455

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Princess Nakashi (? – after 455) was Empress of Japan as the consort of Emperor Ankō.黛弘道 (1968-12). “継体天皇の系譜について : 釈日本紀所引上宮記逸文の研究”. 学習院史学 (学習院大学史学会) 5: 1-14. ISSN 0286-1658. NAID 110007562716. Nakashi was previously married to Prince Ōkusaka, son of Emperor Nintoku. According to the Nihongi, Emperor Ankō had Okusaka executed (believing false accusations of disobedience), and, possibly in regret for unjustly executing Okusaka, took Nakashi as his own.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=roEfAAAAYAAJ&dq=Nakashi+anko&pg=PA331 |title=Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 |date=1896 |publisher=Society |isbn=978-0-524-05347-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Yoko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVtUAQAAQBAJ&dq=Nakashi+anko&pg=PA88 |title=Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan |date=2013-10-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-87422-2 |language=en}} She became a concubine of Emperor Ankō in 454 and was appointed empress 455. Emperor Anko came to love her greatly.

Nakashi already had a child with her first husband, Okusaka. This child, Prince Mayuwa, was thereafter raised in the imperial palace.

She was the daughter of Emperor Richū and Princess Kusakanohatabino.