Princess Ito


Princess Ito was a Japanese imperial princess of the early Heian period.

Biography

Ito's exact date of birth is unknown. Her father was Emperor Kanmu. She became the wife of Prince Abo, and the mother of the waka poets Ariwara no Yukihira and Narihira.
The Kōfuku-ji in Nara houses a document, the Ito-naishinnō Ganmon, which records her donation of incense and sutras to the temple, and is dated to 833.
She died in Kyoto, in 861.

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