Princess Tashiraka

{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|手白香皇女|date=January 2023}}

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|name = Princess Tashiraka

|succession = Empress consort of Japan

|reign = 507–531

|spouse = Emperor Keitai

|issue = Prince Amekunioshiharakihironiwa
Emperor Kinmei

|royal house = Imperial House of Japan

|father = Emperor Ninken

|mother = Princess Kasuga no Ōiratsume

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Princess Tashiraka (? – fl. 531) was Empress of Japan as the (possibly fictional){{Cite book |last=Bentley |first=John R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uaoLEAAAQBAJ&dq=Princess+Tashiraka+kinmei&pg=PT103 |title=The Birth of Japanese Historiography |date=2020-12-28 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-29569-6 |language=en}} consort of the legendary emperor Emperor Keitai. Anston, W.G. (1896). Transactions and Proceedings of The Japan Society, London. Supplement I. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. Vol. 1. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trüber, & Co.{{Cite book |last1=Jien |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&dq=Princess+Tashiraka+Emperor+Keitai&pg=PA262 |title=愚管抄: A Translation and Study of the Gukanshō, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219 |last2=Brown |first2=Delmer Myers |last3=Ishida |first3=Ichirō |date=1979-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-03460-0 |language=en}} She gave birth to two children, including the future Emperor Kimmei.

She was the daughter of Emperor Ninken and Princess Kasuga no Ōiratsume, and the sister of Keitai's predecessor, Emperor Buretsu.{{Cite book |last=London |first=Japan Society of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jyU2AQAAMAAJ&q=Princess+Tashiraka+Emperor+Keitai |title=Transactions and Proceedings |date=1923 |language=en}}