| Following a fire on [[1673]]/5/8 which destroyed large parts of the city, including the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], Emperor Reigen commandeered the [[Konoe family]] mansion, forcing [[Konoe Motohiro]] and his family (including Reigen's full sister, Motohiro's wife, Princess [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]) to relocate elsewhere for a time.<ref>Seigle, 10.</ref> | | Following a fire on [[1673]]/5/8 which destroyed large parts of the city, including the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]], Emperor Reigen commandeered the [[Konoe family]] mansion, forcing [[Konoe Motohiro]] and his family (including Reigen's full sister, Motohiro's wife, Princess [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]]) to relocate elsewhere for a time.<ref>Seigle, 10.</ref> |
− | Reigen abdicated in [[1687]] in favor of one of his sons, who then took the throne as [[Emperor Higashiyama]].<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 157.</ref> | + | Reigen abdicated in [[1687]] in favor of one of his sons, who then took the throne as [[Emperor Higashiyama]].<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 157.</ref> One of his daughters, [[Yasunomiya Yoshiko]], was betrothed in [[1715]], at the age of two, to Shogun [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]] (then seven years of age), though Ietsugu died the following year before the two were wed.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 153-154.</ref> |