Empress Go-Sakuramachi

• Reign: 1762-1770
• Japanese: 後桜町天皇 (Go Sakuramachi tennou)

Empress Go-Sakuramachi was one of the two reigning empresses of the Edo period.

A daughter of Emperor Sakuramachi (r. 1735-1747), she took the throne in 1762 following the abdication of her brother, Emperor Momozono.

Empress Go-Sakuramachi then abdicated in 1770, and was succeeded by her nephew, a son of Emperor Momozono, who took the throne as Emperor Go-Momozono.

Preceded by Emperor Momozono

Emperor of Japan 1762-1770

Succeeded by Emperor Go-Momozono

References

• Evelyn Rawski, Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives, Cambridge University Press (2015), 157.