was Japanese royalty. He was the 20th/23rd prince

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and the eldest son of

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(1776–1841) and his concubine Seiko, which made him an 11th cousin of

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. Despite being merely a distant cousin to the emperors, he was adopted by

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as a Yūshi in 1817, which made him a Shinnō, or prince, just like an emperor's natural-born son. Prince Kuniie succeeded to the title of Fushimi-no-miya after the death of his father in 1841. But soon, in 1842, his eldest (natural) son, Zaihan (later Prince Yamashina Akira) ran away with his aunt Princess Takako, while Zaihan was a monk in

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. Because of this scandal, the prince soon had to abdicate in favor of the only son of his wife, Prince Sadanori, who was the sixth out of 17 sons of his father. Prince Kuniie took the name Zengaku (禪樂) as a monk afterwards. In 1864, Kuniie succeeded as Prince Fushimi-no-miya again. After

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moved the capital of Japan to

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, Prince Kuniie left

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and moved to Tokyo with his family in 1872. He abdicated again to his second son (or 14th), Prince Sadanaru, lived in seclusion, and died the same year. He was the father of 17 princes and 14 princesses (9 of which were born before his marriage to Karatsukasa Hiroko in 1836), including

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, the grandfather of Japan's first post-World War II Prime Minister

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, the great-grandfather of

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, and the great-great grandfather of

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. He was the common ancestor of Ōke.

Marriage and Children

On January 9, 1836, Prince Kuniie married Takatsukasa Hiroko (1814–1892), daughter of

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(also, a second cousin of

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paternally) and had had 7 children.Beside his legal wife, the prince had nine concubine with whom he fathered 24 children. Consort and issue(s): *Consort ('' Hi'') : Takatsukasa Hiroko (鷹司景子, 15 January 1814– 28 September 1892), daughter of

(鷹司政煕) **Sixth Son: Prince Fushimi Sadanori (伏見宮貞教親王, 26 October 1836 – 16 December 1862) **Fifth Daughter: Princess Fumiko (碌子女王), (1839 – 1853) **Seventh Son: ''Prince Kiku'' (喜久宮 , 1842 – 1851) **Eighth Daughter: Princess Noriko (則子女王), (16 May 1850 – 14 November 1874), wife of Marquis

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(徳川茂承) **Ninth Daughter'': Princess Kayo'' (嘉世宮 , 1852 – 1853) **Eleventh Daughter: ''Princess Toshi (利宮,'' 1856 – 1858) **Fourteenth son:

(伏見宮貞愛親王, 9 June 1858 – 4 February 1923 *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Fujiki Toshiko (藤木寿子) **First Son:

(山階宮晃親王, 22 October 1816 – 29 October 1891) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Ueno Juno (上野寿野) **Second Son: Prince Shōgoin Yoshikoto (聖護院宮嘉言親王, 28 February 1821 – 26 September 1868) **Third Son: Prince Manshuin Jonin (曼殊院宮譲仁親王, 1824 – 1842) **First Daughter: Princess Hisako (恒子女王, 26 February 1826 – 1916) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Torikoji Nobuko (鳥居小路信子) **Fourth Son:

(久邇宮朝彦親王 , 27 February 1824 – 25 October 1891) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Nakamura Soma (中村杣) **Second Daughter: Princess Yoriko (順子女王, 1827 – 1908), Wife of the former

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Ichijō Tadaka (一条忠香) **Third Daughter: Koga Sei'en (久我誓円, 1828 – 1910) – became an adopted daughter of Koga Michiaki (1780-1855) in 1875 *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Furuyama Chie (古山千恵) **Fourth Daughter: Princess Tomoko (和子女王, 19 January 1830 – 4 June 1884), Wife of Otani Mitsukatsu (大谷光勝) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Kazuo Kondō (近藤加寿尾) **Fifth Son: ''Stillborn'' (1832 – 1832) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Horiuchi Nobuko (堀内信子) **Sixth Daughter: ''Stillborn'' (1840 – 1840) **Eighth Son:

Prince Komatsu Akihito was a Japanese career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who was a member of the Fushimi-no-miya, one of the ''shinnōke'' branches of the Imperial Family of Japan, which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Biography Earl ...

(小松宮彰仁親王, 11 February 1846 – 18 February 1903) **Ninth Son:

(北白川宮能久親王 , 1 April 1847 – 5 November 1895) **Tenth Son: ''Prince Aki'' (誠宮 , 1848 – 1853) **Eleventh Son: ''Prince Naru'' (愛宮, 1849 – 1851) **Twelfth Son:

Prince Kachō Hirotsune of Japan, was the founder of a ōke, collateral branch of the Imperial Household of Japan, Japanese imperial family. Biography Prince Hirotsune was the twelfth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye (1802–1875). Hirotsune's father was the twentieth head ...

(華頂宮博経親王 , 19 April 1851 – 24 May 1876) *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Simuko Kimura (木村世牟子) **Seventh Daughter: Princess Bunshū (文秀女王, 29 January 1844 – 15 February 1926) – became a buddhist nun at Enshō-ji *Wife (''Nyōbō''): Itami Yoshiko (伊丹吉子) **Tenth Daughter: Murakumo Nichi'ei (村雲日栄, 3 April 1855 – 1920) – became a Buddhist nun **Thirteenth Son:

Prince Kitashirakawa Satonari was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. Early life Prince Kitashirakawa Satonari was born in Kyoto, and was the thirteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniie (1802–1872), the twentieth head of the Fushimi-no-miya, the ...

(北白川宮智成親王 Kitashirakawa-no-miya Satonari shinnō), (22 July 1856 – 10 February 1872) **Twelfth Daughter: Princess Takako (貴子女王, 4 January 1858 – 1919), Wife of Count Matsudaira Tadataka **Thirteenth Daughter: ''Stillborn (1''859 – 1859) **Fourteenth Daughter: ''Princess Tame'' (多明宮, 1860 –1864) **Fifteenth Son: Count Kiyosu Ienori (清棲家教伯爵, 19 June 1862 – 13 July 1923)Adopted by Takatsukasa Masamichi, and reduced from Imperial status to nobility **Sixteenth Son:

(閑院宮載仁親王, 10 November 1865 – 21 May 1945) **Seventeenth Son:

(東伏見宮依仁親王, 19 September 1867 – 27 June 1922) **Fifteenth Daughter: Princess Machi (萬千宮, 1869 –1872) Among 12 surviving sons of Prince Kuniie, 2 of them succeeded Fushimi-no-miya, other 9 were granted with

Shinnōke was the collective name for the four cadet branches of the Imperial family of Japan, which were until 1947 entitled to provide a successor to the Chrysanthemum throne if the main line failed to produce an heir. The heads of these royal houses h ...

and the other one became a count.

Ancestry

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