Yamato Hime no Ōkimi
Yamato Hime no Ōkimi was a poet and Empress of Japan, as the wife of her paternal uncle Emperor Tenji. She was a granddaughter of Emperor Jomei and Soga no Hote-no-iratsume, through their son Prince Furuhito-no-Ōe.
Her poetry is collected in the Man'yōshū, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry believed to have been collected by Ōtomo no Yakamochi. After the death of her husband in 671, she wrote a song of mourning about him.
