Chikako, Princess Kazu


Chikako, Princess Kazu was the wife of 14th shogun Tokugawa Iemochi. She was renamed Lady Seikanin no miya after she took the tonsure as a widow.

She was the eighth and youngest daughter of Emperor Nink and his concubine, Hashimoto Tsuneko renamed Kangyouin after she took the tonsure. She was the younger sister of Emperor Kmei. A few months after her birth, her father, Emperor Nink, died unexpectedly. Born onAugust 1846, her official birth date was changed toJuly because the actual birth date was a bad omen date, and a double bad omen with the death of her father a few months later.

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