Jusangu
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- Japanese: 准三后 (jusangou)
Jusangô refers to the three empresses (empress consort, dowager empress, and grand-dowager empress[1]). Others were also granted the title jusangô or jugô as an honorary title, granting that individual an income equal to that of one of the empresses.
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 320.
- ↑ The grandmother of the reigning emperor.
