Princess Tajima
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Princess Tajima (但馬皇女 Tajima no himemiko?) (? - 708) was a person in Japan during the Asuka Period. She was a daughter of Emperor Tenmu. Her mother was Lady Higami (氷上娘), whose father was Fujiwara no Kamatari, who co-worked with Naka-no-Ōe-no Ōji when they slew Soga no Iruka in the Taika Reform in 645.
She got married with Prince Takechi by the Emperor's order but she was not very happy with him because he was much older than she and looked like her father. She secretly loved her half brother, Prince Hozumi. Some of her poems suggesting her love of him were collected in the Man'yōshū.
However, she could not get married with him until she died in 708. After her death, he produced a lament poem on her, which was also collected in the Man'yōshū.
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