go-sekke

Updated: May 12, 2025

Ninety-five out of the total one hundred and fifty-five families of Kuge belonged to it, including the five families, Go-Sekke, from which alone the Emperor was by tradition allowed to choose his Empress. By the close of the seventh century most of the executive power had passed into its hands.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation

She gave birth to two princes and five princesses, and the house of Konoe, which had been instrumental in procuring her summons to the Court, became the leader of the Go-sekke. He died ten years later, at the age of fifty-eight, and was interred at the temple Zojo-ji, in the Shiba district of the eastern capital.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era