Noriko Fukufuji

Onna-bugeisha (female samurai), and First Lady of the Shogunate of Japan. Wife of Daigoro Kabutotsu, and mother of Daisuke, Deiji, and Daiki Kabutotsu.

Background
Born in Kitaakita, Akita, Noriko is the daughter of a samurai. Her father worked for the Daimyo of Akita. Noriko was trained in bushido at Tomoebuke Girls' School in Aomori. Soon after graduating from Tomoebuke and returning to her family's home in Akita, Noriko met her father's new boss, and her future husband, Daigoro Kabutotsu. The two were married that same year, and the following year they had their first child, Daisuke.

In 2005, Daigoro's time as the interim Daimyo of Akita was over, and the family moved to New Edo so that Daigoro could work directly under his father the Shogun. In 2008, the same year as the death of her father-in-law, Noriko gave birth to the family's second child, and only daughter, Deiji. Then in the srping of 2010, the youngest Kabutotsu child, Daiki, was born.

Noriko serves as an advisor to her husband and as the Councilor of Women's Affairs on the Unified Board of Japan.