Saiō

Saiō atau Itsuki no Miko (斎王code: ja is deprecated ),^[1] adalah seorang anggota perempuan lajang dari Keluarga Kekaisaran Jepang, yang dikirim ke Ise untuk bertugas di Kuil Besar Ise dari akhir abad ke-8 sampai abad ke-14. Kediaman Saiō, Saikū (斎宮code: ja is deprecated ), yang berjarak sekitar 10 km dari barat laut kuil tersebut. Reruntuhan-reruntuhan Saikū berada di kota Meiwa, Prefektur Mie, Jepang.^[2]

• Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c.1220], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
• Farris, William Wayne. (1999). "Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 123–126.
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652]. Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4

Media tentang Saiō di Wikimedia Commons

• Saikū Historical Museum (Japanese)
• Itsukinomiya Historical Experience Hall (Japanese)
• Saio Matsuri (Japanese)