Konoe Iehiro was a son of Konoe Motohiro and Shinanomiya Tsuneko, and was known as a poet, painter, and calligrapher. He served as kampaku beginning in 1707, as sesshô from 1709 to 1712, and as Daijô daijin beginning in 1710.
He married the First Princess (daughter of Emperor Reigen) in 1683.[1]
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 314n69.
- ↑ Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), The Human Tradition in Modern Japan, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 16.