| Yasuko Ikenobō | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office3: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term Start3: | 21 October 1996 |
| Term End3: | 16 November 2012 |
| Constituency3: | Kinki proportional representation block |
| Term End2: | 30 |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1942 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo |
| Party: | Komeito |
| Children: | Yuki Ikenobō Mika Ikenobō |
| Alma Mater: | Gakushuin University |
(née Umetani) is a Japanese politician.
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]