Jabarkan Keluarga dari Kaisar Kōtoku

Kakek: Pangeran Oshisako no Hikohito

Kakek buyut: Kaisar Bidatsu (敏達天皇, Bidatsu-tennō, 538 – 14 September 585)

Permaisuri: Hashihito (間人皇女), putri Maharani Kōgyoku (皇極天皇, Kōgyoku-tennō), saudari kandung Kōtoku

Hi: Abe no Otarashi-hime (阿部小足媛), putri Abe no Kurahashi-maro

Hi: Saga no Chi-no-iratsume (蘇我乳娘), putri Soga no Kura-no-Yamada no Ishikawa-no-maro

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