- Princess Minushi
(? - 737) was a person in
Japan during theAsuka Period and theNara Period . She was a daughter ofEmperor Tenji . Her mother wasLady Kurohime , whose father wasKurikuma no Tokoma . None of her siblings were recorded.Her detailed biography is not recorded. Ishikawa no Myobu's poem collected in the "
Man'yōshū " is all that records on her in the history. In the Man'yōshū, the Empress Dowager Gensho ordered Ishikawa no Myobu to compose it to express her hope of Princess Minushi's recovery from illness. It was a few years before her death.
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