1. Saionji Kishi, or more formally Fujiwara no Kishi, was an empress consort of Japan.
10 Facts About Saionji Kishi
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Saionji Kishi was the consort of Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan.
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Saionji Kishi was given the regnal name Reiseimon-in in 1332 when her husband was banished, but it was abolished when he returned to the chrysanthemum throne in 1333.
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Saionji Kishi was an excellent poet, 14 of whose waka poetry are included in chokusen wakashu.
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Saionji Kishi was born as the 3rd daughter of Saionji Sanekane.
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Saionji Kishi eloped with then-Crown Prince Takaharu in 1313 and officially got married with him in 1314.
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Prince Takaharu acceded to the throne as Emperor Go-Daigo in the 2nd lunar month, 1318 and Kishi was made semi-Empress consort in the 4th lunar month of the same year.
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Saionji Kishi was made Empress consort in the 8th lunar month, 1319.
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Emperor Go-Daigo was captured and exiled to the Oki Islands by the Kamakura shogunate in the 3rd lunar month, 1332 and Saionji Kishi became a Buddhist nun in the 8th month the same year.
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Saionji Kishi died on the 10th lunar month 12th, 1333.