Teruko, Princess Ake
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was a Japanese imperial princess and artist. She was the eighth daughter of
Emperor Go-Mizunoo , posthumously honored as , was the 108th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional List of Emperors of Japan, order of succession. Go-Mizunoo's reign spanned the years from 1611 through 1629, and he was the first emperor to reign entirely d ...
. After her father's death in 1680, she shaved her head and took the name Genyo, then entered . She founded Linkyuji Temple. The Kosetsu Memorial Museum held a special exhibition on Japanese female artists, in which her work was also exhibited.


See also

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Kiyohara Yukinobu Kiyohara Yukinobu (清原雪信, 1643–1682) was a Japanese painter and one of the foremost women identified with the Kanō school. Her father Kusumi Morikage was also a painter and her mother Kuniko was the niece of his longtime teacher and pat ...
(1643–82) * Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727/8–84) * Ema Saikō (1787–1861)


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1634 births 1727 deaths 17th-century Japanese artists Daughters of Japanese emperors Buddhist clergy of the Edo period Japanese women artists 18th-century Japanese artists 17th-century Japanese women 18th-century Japanese women {{japan-royal-stub