Konoe Motohiro
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Konoe Motohiro 近衛 基熈 | |
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 Konoe Motohiro. Illustration by Nishiki-no-koji Yoritsune, housed at Yōmei Bunko. | |
| Chancellor (Daijō-daijin) of Japan | |
| Tenure | 15 November 1709 – 8 January 1710 |
| Successor | Konoe Iehiro |
| Born | 28 April 1648 |
| Died | 13 October 1722 |
| Buried | Daitoku-ji |
| Family | Kujō |
| Father | Konoe Hisatsugu |
| Mother | Lady Yorin-in |
Konoe Motohiro (近衛 基熈[1]; 28 April 1648 – 13 October 1722), Tajimaru (多治丸) in his childhood, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku from 1690 to 1703. Motohiro was also a great-grandson of Emperor Go-Yozei through a junior line.
He was a son of regent Konoe Hisatsugu and a concubine. Motohiro was not considered a legitimate member at first, but his father Hisatsugu and his wife, Princess Shoshi, a daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo, had no child and Hisatsu died in Motohiro's childhood. Thus by an imperial order from Go-Mizunoo, Motohiro was installed in the Konoe lineage, and grew up under imperial protection.
In 1654 he performed his genpuku ceremony and entered adulthood and therefore courtier life. In 1664 he married Princess Joshi, another daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and his consort. With her he had a son, Iehiro, and a daughter, Hiroko, who was a consort of Tokugawa Ienobu, the 6th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
