, born , was the fourteenth child and ninth daughter of
Emperor Meiji
, also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...
of
Japan
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, and the seventh child and fifth daughter of
Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine.
Biography
Toshiko was born in Japan, the daughter of
Emperor Meiji
, also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...
and Lady
Sachiko
is a feminine Japanese given name that means "''child of bliss''." It also means "''happiness''" when it is written with the kanji characters 幸子. One common short form of the name is ''Sachi''.
People
* Sachiko, Princess Hisa (久宮祐子 ...
. She held the childhood appellation "Yasu no miya" (Princess Yasu).
She married
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
General was a Japanese imperial prince, a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945, a period of 54 days. An uncle-in-law of Emperor Hirohito twice over, Prince H ...
on 18 May 1915.
Emperor Meiji
, also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...
granted Prince Naruhiko the title ''Higashikuni-no-miya'' and permission to start a new branch of the imperial family before their marriage on 3 November 1906. The couple had four sons:
#; married his first cousin
Princess Shigeko, the eldest daughter of
Emperor Shōwa
Emperor , commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was ...
and
Empress Kōjun
, born , was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and the mother of Shigeko Higashikuni, Princess Sachiko Hisa-nomiya, Kazuko Takatsukasa, Atsuko Ikeda, the Emperor Emeritus Akihito, Prince Masahito ...
.
#; died in the
Great Kantō earthquake
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.
#; renounced imperial title and created
Marquis
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Awata Akitsune, 1940
#; relocated to
Lins, São Paulo
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São Paulo (, ...
,
Brazil
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, 1950 after being adopted and becoming the heir to Kinu, widow of Tetsusuke Tarama.
In October 1947, the Higashikuni and the other branches of the Imperial Family were divested of their titles and privileges during the
American occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the victorious Allies of World War II from the 1945 surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of the war until the
Treaty of San Francisco took effect in 1952. The occupation, led by the United States wi ...
and became commoners. Toshiko died on 5 March 1978, aged 81. She was the last surviving child of Emperor Meiji.
Ancestry
References
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1896 births
1978 deaths
Japanese princesses
People from Tokyo
Grand Cordons (Imperial Family) of the Order of the Precious Crown
19th-century Japanese women
19th-century Japanese people
20th-century Japanese women
20th-century Japanese people
Daughters of emperors