Yasuko Ikenobō

Japanese politician (born 1942)

Yasuko Ikenobō

池坊 保子

Member of the House of Representatives
In office
21 October 1996 – 16 November 2012
Constituency| Kinki proportional representation block
Personal details
Born| 18 April 1942
Tokyo
Political party| Komeito
Spouse|

Sen'ei Ikenobō

(m. 1963)​

Children| Yuki Ikenobō
Mika Ikenobō
Alma mater| Gakushuin University

Yasuko Ikenobō (池坊 保子, Ikenobō Yasuko, born April 18, 1942) (née Umetani) is a Japanese politician.

## Biography

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She was born in Tokyo the third daughter of Viscount Michitora Umetani, head of a former kuge family and Member of the House of Peers. She enrolled but later left Gakushuin University in 1961. She has been married to Sen'ei Ikenobō (池坊 専永), the Ikenobō family patriarch, since 1963 and has two daughters, Yuki (池坊 由紀), the next head of the family, and Mika (池坊 美佳).

She was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) for the first time in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, which later split into several parties including the New Komeito Party.

She was a Komeito politician, but she was not a member of Sōka Gakkai as former Councillor Kunihiro Tsuzuki and Councillor Shozo Kusakawa.

In 2022, she was appointed in the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, hence being the second woman to be appointed in an organization linked to the Japan Sumo Association.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "Konno and Ikenobo as new members of the Yokoso Council, the first female members since Uchidate". Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). 8 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2022.

## Sources

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* 政治家情報 〜池坊 保子〜. www.senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-16.

## External links

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* Official blog in Japanese.

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