Empress Shōken

(9 May 1849 - 9 April 1914) was empress consort of Japan as the wife of Emperor Meiji.Born , she was the third daughter of Lord Tadaka Ichijō, sometime Minister of the Left and head of the Ichijō branch of the House of the Fujiwara. She married Emperor Meiji on 2 September 1867 and she adopted the given name , which was intended to reflect her diminutive size and serene beauty. She was the first imperial consort to receive the title of kōgō (literally, the emperor's wife, translated as "empress consort"), in several hundred years.
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