PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Fushimi-no-miya is the oldest of the four shinnōke, branches of the
Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the
Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out. It
was founded by Prince Yoshihito, son of the Northern Emperor Sukō.
The sesshu shinnōke and ōke households, along with the kazoku (Japanese peerage), were
reduced to commoner status during the American occupation of Japan, on
14th October 1947.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Yoshihito shinnō 1409/1416, born
1351, married and had issue. He died 1416.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Haruhito shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadafusa shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Haruhito shinnō 1416/1417, born
1370, died 1417.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadafusa shinnō 1425/1447, born
1372, married and had issue. He died 1456.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadatsune shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadatsune shinnō, 4th Prince
Fushimi-no-miya 1456/1474,
born 1425, married and had issue. He died
1474.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunitaka shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunitaka shinnō 1474/1516, born
1456, married and had issue. He died 1532.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadaatsu shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadaatsu shinnō 1516/1545, born
1488, married and had issue. He died 1572.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunisuke shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunisuke shinnō 1545/1563, born
1513, married and had issue. He died 1563.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadayasu shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadayasu shinnō 1563/1568, born
1547, married and had issue. He died 1568.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninobu shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninobu shinnō 1575/- , born
1566, married and had issue. He died 1622.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadakiyo shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadakiyo shinnō 1605/- , born
1596, married and had issue. He died 1654.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninari shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadayuki shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunimichi shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninari shinnō 1626/- , born
1615, married and had issue. He died 1654.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunimichi shinnō 1649/- , born
1641, died 1654.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadayuki shinnō 1660/- , born
1632, married and had issue. He died 1694.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninaga shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuninaga shinnō 1695/- , born
1676, married and had issue. He died 1726.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadatake shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadatake shinnō 1715/- , born
1701, married and had issue. He died 1754.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunitada shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuniyori shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kunitada shinnō 1743/1754, born
1732, married and had issue. He died 1759.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadamochi shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadamochi shinnō 1763/1772, born
1760, son of HIM Emperor Momozono, 116th Emperor of Japan, died sp 1772.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Kuniyori shinnō 1774/1791, born
1733, married and had issue. He died 1802.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadayuki, born 1765, died 1831.
- HIH Prince Fushimi-no-miya Sadayoshi shinnō (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadayoshi, 19th Prince
Fushimi-no-miya 1791/1817, born
1775/1776, married and had issue. He died 1841.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Kuniye (qv)
- HIH Prince Yamashina Akira, born 22nd October 1816 in
Kyoto, 1st Prince
Yamashina-no-miya [cr.1864], married HIH Princess Katsura Sumiko, born
1848, died 1881, and had issue. He died
17th February 1898 in Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Yamashina Kikumaro, born 1873, 2nd Prince
Yamashina-no-miya 1898/1908; married and had issue. He died 1908.
- HIH Prince Yamashina
Takehiko, born 1898, 3rd Prince
Yamashina-no-miya 1908/-, married 19th July 1922 in Tokyo, HIH Princess
Kaya Sakiko, born 30th March 1903 in Kyoto, died 1st September 1923 in
Kamakura, daughter of HIH Prince Kuni Kuninori, and his wife, Lady
Tadashige Yoshiko (see below).
- HIH Prince Yamashina Yoshimaro, born 1901.
- HIH Prince Yamashina Fujimaro, born 1905.
- HIH Prince Yamashina Hagimaro, born 1906.
- HIH Prince Yamashina Shigemaro, born 1908.
- HIH Prince Nashimoto Moriosa, born 1st December 1819,
1st Prince Nashimoto-no-miya, died sp
September
1881.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Kuniye, 20th Prince
Fushimi-no-miya
1817/1848,
born 24th October 1802, married and had issue, at least 17 sons and 4
daughters. He died 5th August 1872.
- HIH Prince Kuni Asahiko, born 27th February 1824 in
Kyoto, 1st Prince
Kuni-no-miya
[cr.1871], married (amongst others) Harada Mitsue, and had issue, the
Kuni,
Kaya, Asaka, Higashikuni and Nashimoto Imperial Families. He died 29th
October 1891 in Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Kuni Kunihiko
- HIH Prince Kuni Kuninori, born 1st June 1867 in Kyoto,
1st Prince Kaya-no-Miya, married 26th November 1892 in Kyoto, Lady
Tadashige Yoshiko, born 7th December 1865 in Kyoto, daughter of
Marquess Tadashige Daigo, and had
issue. He died 8th December 1909 in Kyoto.
- HIH Princess Kaya Yukiko, born 23rd November 1895 in
Kyoto,
- HIH Prince Kaya Tsunenori, born 27th January 1900 in
Kyoto, 2nd Prince Kaya-no-miya 1909/-, married
3rd May 1921 in Tokyo, Princess Kujo Toshiko, born 16th May 1903,
daughter of Prince Kujo Michizane,
and had issue.
- HIH Prince Kaya Kuninaga, born 21st April 1922 in
Tokyo
- HIH Princess Kaya Michiko, born 29th July 1923 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Kaya Harunori, born 3rd July 1926 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Kaya Akinori, born 17th August 1929 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Kaya Fuminori, born 12th July 1931 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Kaya Munenori, born 24th November 1935
in Himeji.
- HIH Princess Kaya Sakiko,
born 30th March 1903 in Kyoto, married 19th July 1922 in Tokyo, HIH
Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 3rd Prince Yamashina-no-miya (see above). She died 1st September 1923 in Kamakura.
- HIH Princess Kaya Kochiko, born 29th June 1904.
- HIH Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi, born 1873, married and had
issue. He died 1929.
- HIH Prince Kuni Asaakira, born 1901, married and had
issue. He died 1959.
- HIH Prince Kuni Kuniaki, born 1929.
- HIH Prince Kuni Asatake, born 1940.
- HIH Prince Kuni Kunihisa
- HIH Prince Kuni Kunihide, born 1910.
- HIH Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, born 1874, 2nd Prince
Nashimoto-no-miya [cr.1890], married 1900, Lady Nabeshina Itsuko, born
1882, died 1976, daughter of Marquess Nabeshina Naohiro, and had issue,
two daughters. He died 1951.
- HIH Princess Nashimoto Masako, born 1901, married
1920, HIH Prince YI UN of Korea, and had issue. She died 1989.
- HIH Prince Kuni Taka, born 1875, married and had issue.
He died 1937.
- HIH Prince Kuni Iehiko, born 1920.
- HIH Prince Kuni Norihiko, born 1922.
- HIH Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, born 1887, 1st Prince
Asaka-no-Miya [cr.1906]; married 1906, HIH Princess Nobuko
[Fami-no-Miya], daughter of HIM
Emperor MEIJI of Japan, and Imperial
Concubine Sono Sachiko, and had issue.
- HIH Princess Asaka Kikuko, born 1911.
- HIH Prince Asaka Takahiko, born 1912, married and had
issue.
- HIH Prince Asaka Tomohiko, born 1914.
- HIH Prince Asaka Tadahiko
- HIH Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, born 3rd December 1887
in Kyoto, 1st Prince
Higashikuni-no-miya [cr.1906]; married 18th May 1915, HIH Princess
Toshiko
[Yasu-no-Miya], born 11th May
1896, died 5th
March 1978, daughter of HIM
Emperor MEIJI of Japan, and Imperial
Concubine Sono Sachiko, and had issue. He died 20th January 1990 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Higashikuni Morihiro, born 6th May 1916,
married 13th October 1943 in Tokyo, HIH Princess Shigeko
[Teru-no-Miya], born 6th
December 1925
in Tokyo, died 23rd July 1961, daughter of HIM Emperor SHOWA of
Japan, and his wife,
HIM Empress Nagako. He died sp
1st February 1969.
- HIH Prince Higashikuni Akitsune, born 13th May 1920
in Tokyo, 2nd
Prince Higashikuni-no-miya 1990/-, Marquess Awata.
- HIH Prince Higashikuni Toshihiko, born 24th March
1929 in Tokyo, died
1965.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Nagahisa
- HIH Prince Fushimi Naruhisa, died 1927.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Kuninori
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadanori (qv)
- HIH Prince Kwacho Hirotsune, born 1840, 1st Prince
Kwacho-no-miya
[cr.1868],
married and had issue, the Kwacho Imperial Family. He died 1894.
- HIH Prince Kwacho Hiroatsu
- HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Toshinori, born 1844, 1st Prince
Kitashirakawa-no-miya
[cr.1872], died sp 1872.
- Count Kiyozumi Ienori
- HIH Prince Fushimi Tomonori
- HIH Prince Fushimi Satonori
 Hon. Field Marshal HIH Prince Fushimi Yoshiaki (seventh
son), Diplomat and Military tactician, born 11th February 1846 in
Kyoto,
educated privately and later in Great Britain 1870/1872 studying
military tactics, he adopted the title Ninnaji-no-miya and entered the
Buddhist
priesthood in 1858, returning to secular life in 1867, he led the
imperial forces
to Osaka, Yamato, Shikoku and Aizu against partisans of the Tokugawa
Shogunate during the Boshin War; he was instrumental in quelling the
Saga Rebellion of 1874, and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877; he was
granted the rank of Lieutenant General in Imperial Japanese Army and
rose to the rank of General, recieving command of the First Imperial
Guard Division in 1890, nominal commander of the expeditionary forces
to China in the First
Sino-Japanese War 1894/1895, became a member of the Supreme Military
Council, chief of the General Staff, with the honorary rank of Field
Marshal; as a diplomat he was sent to the Ottoman Empire to mark the
inaugural step in
relations between Turkey and Japan in 1887 and presented the Ottoman
Emperor a
message of good will from the Meiji Emperor, he and his consort
represented Emperor Meiji at the coronation of King Edward
VII in July 1901; 1st Prince
Higashifushimi-no-miya
[cr.1867], 1st Prince Komatsu-no-miya [cr.1872] (styled HIH Prince
Komatsu-no-miya
Akihito shinnō); awarded the Order of the Golden Kite (2nd class),
Order of the Rising Sun (1st class), Order of the Chrysanthemum;
married 6th November 1869, Lady Arima Yoriko, born 18th June 1852,
died sp 26th June 1914,
daughter of Lord Arima Yorishige, the former daimyo of Kurume,
(Chikugo).
He died sp 18th February 1903
in Tokyo.- HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, born 1st January 1847
in Kyoto, 2nd
Prince Kitashirakawa-no-miya, in succession to his elder brother,
married
April 1886, Princess Shimazu Tomoko, born 8th August 1862, died 1935,
and had
issue,
the Kitashirakawa, Takeda, Futara, Ueno and Komatsu Imperial Families.
He died 5th November 1895.
- HIH Prince Takeda Tsunehisa, born 1882, 1st Prince
Takeda-no-miya [cr.1906]; married and had issue. He died 1919.
- HIH Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, born 1909, 2nd Prince
Takeda-no-miya.
- HIH Prince Takeda Ayako
- HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa, born 1887, 3rd
Prince Kitashirakawa-no-miya 1895/1923, married and had issue. He died
1923.
- HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa, born 1910, 4th
Prince Kitashirakawa-no-miya 1923/1940, married HIH Princess Fusako
[Kane-no-Miya], daughter of HIM
Emperor MEIJI of Japan, and Imperial
Concubine Sono Sachiko, and had issue. He died 1940.
- HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Michihisa, born 1937, 5th
Prince Kitashirakawa-no-miya 1940/-
- HIH Princess Kitashirakawa Hatsuko, born 1939.
- Count Ueno Masao
- Count Futara Yoshiyuki
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadanaru (fourteenth son) (qv)
- HIH Prince Kanin Kotohito, born 10th November 1865 in
Kyoto, married
19th
December 1891 in Tokyo, Princess Sanjo Chieko, born 25th May 1872, died
1953, and had issue, the Kanin Imperial
Family.
He died 21st May 1945 in Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, born 19th September
1867, educated
at Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese
Navy, succeeded his elder brother as the 2nd Prince
Higashifushimi-no-miya in 1903; married 10th February 1898,
Princess
Iwakura Kaneko, born 26th August 1876, died sp 1948 in Tokyo, daughter of
Prince Iwakura Tomosada. He died sp
27th June 1922 in Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Fumihide, born 1844.
- Daughter, married HIH Prince Ichijo Tadako, and had issue.
- HIH Princess Ichijo Haruko, born 28th May 1850,
married 9th February 1869, HIM Emperor MEIJI. She died 11th April 1914.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadanori, 22nd Prince
Fushimi-no-miya 1848/1862, died 25th October 1862.
 Field Marshal HIH Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, 22nd
Prince
Fushimi-no-miya 1862/1923,
born 28th April 1858 in Kyoto, styled Fushimi-no-miya Sadanaru-Shinnō,
he studied military tactics at the École Spéciale
Militaire de Saint-Cyr in France and later in Germany in the 1870's,
Commander of the IJA 4th Division [1892], and Commander of the IJA 1st
Division [1895], served as a field Commander of the IJA 10th Division
in the First Sino-Japanese War 1894/1895, represented Emperor Meiji at
the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on 26 May 1896, General
[6.1904], continued to serve as a field Commander in the Russo-Japanese
War 1904/1905, Field Marshal [1905], Member of the Supreme War Council
in 1905, served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (Naidaijin) 1912/1915, represented
Japan at the state funeral of King Edward VII of Great Britain on 20th
May 1910, awarded the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, Order of the
Golden Kite (2nd Class); married 6th October 1876 in Tokyo, HIH
Princess Arisugawa
Toshiko, born 21st May 1858, died 3rd January 1930 (#1),
and had issue. He
died
5th February 1923 in Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi Akinori
- HIH Prince Fushimi Kuniyoshi, born 1880.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Teiko, married Marquis Yamanuchi
- HIH Princess Fushimi Kuniko, born 18th March 1880, died
1st June 1933.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Sachiko, born 27th June 1885.
-
 Fleet Admiral HIH Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, 23rd
Prince
Fushimi-no-miya 1923/1946,
2nd Prince
Kwacho-no-miya [23.4.1883 to 16.1.1904], styled Fushimi-no-miya
Hiroyasu Shinnō, born 16th October 1875 in Tokyo as Prince Narukata
(changing it upon succeeding as 2nd Prince Kwacho-no-miya), educated at
the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, but dropped out to attend the
Naval Academy of the Kaiserliche Marine in Germany in 1889, graduating
in 1895; served as a lieutenant commander in the Russo-Japanese War
1904/1905, he further studied in Great Britain 1909/1910, served as
chief of the Naval General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy
1932/1941; Vice Admiral [1.12.1916], Admiral [1.12.1922], Fleet Admiral
[27.5.1932], member of the Supreme War Council throughout the Pacific
War, retiring in 1945; honourary president of the
Imperial Life Boat Association, the Japan Seamen's Relief Association,
the Cancer Research Society, the Naval Club, the Japan-German Society,
and the Scientific and Chemical Research Institute; he married 9th
January 1896, HIH Princess Tokugawa
Tsuneko,
born 23rd September 1882, died
18th
August 1939, daughter of HIH Prince Tokugawa
Yoshinobu, and had issue. He died 16th August 1946 in Tokyo.
- Col. HIH Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi, born 8th December 1897
in
Tokyo, educated at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, graduating in
1920, Lieutenant Commander [1932], 3rd Destroyer Unit Commander [1937]
in the Battle of Shanghai, 6th Destroyer Unit Commander [1937], became
the instructor of a
Naval War College after the battle; married
23rd December 1919 in Tokyo, Princess Ichijo Tokiko, born 20th June
1902
in Tokyo, daughter of Prince Ichijo Saneteru, and had issue. He died
19th
October 1938 in Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Mitsuko, born 28th July 1929 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Hiroaki (qv)
- HIH Princess Fushimi Yoshiko, born 14th February 1933
in Tokyo, died
25th
October 1937 in Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Ayako, born 11th February 1934 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Yasuko, born 14th November 1898.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Hirotada, born 26th January 1902, 3rd
Prince
Kwacho-no-miya 1904/1924, died sp 19th July 1924.
- Marquis Kwacho Hironobu, born 1905, 1st Marquis Kwacho
[cr.1926],
married
1926 (div. 1951), HIH Princess Kanin Hanoko,
born 30th June 1909, youngest daughter of HIH Prince Kanin Kotohito,
6th Prince
Kanin-no-miya, and his wife, Princess Sanjo Chieko.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Tomoko, born 18th May 1907, married
25th January
1925
in Tokyo, HIH Prince Kuni Asaakira, born 2nd February 1901, died 3rd
December
1959, and had issue. She died 30th June 1947.
- HIH Princess Fushimi Atsuko, born 18th May 1907, married
1926, Count
Kiyozumi.
- Count Fushimi Hirohide, born 4th October 1912 in Tokyo,
1st Count Fushimi
[cr.1936], died
26th
August 1943.
- HIH Prince Fushimi Hiroaki (see above)
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