was the second concubine of Emperor Meiji, and the mother of his first daughter Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto (稚高依姫尊). Wakatakayori-hime no Mikoto was stillborn, and Natsuko died of complications from her delivery.
Natsuko was a daughter of the noblewoman Hashimoto Reiko (橋本麗子, 1835–1889), and she entered Meiji's service as a concubine in 1872. Natsuko's tomb is at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery at Gokoku-ji in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
See also Empress Shōken, primary consort of Emperor Meiji, later Empress Dowager Hamuro Mitsuko, first concubine Yanagihara Naruko, third concubine of Emperor Meiji, mother of Emperor Taishō Chigusa Kotoko, fourth concubine Sono Sachiko, fifth concubine
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