Fusako Kitashirakawa Explained

Fusako Kitashirakawa
Birth Date:28 January 1890
Birth Place:Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Death Place:Tokyo, Japan
Children:Nagahisa Kitashirakawa
Mineko Kitashirakawa
Sawako Kitashirakawa
Taeko Kitashirakawa
Relatives:Imperial House of Japan
Father:Emperor Meiji
Mother:Sono Sachiko

, born, was the eleventh child and seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the fourth child and third daughter of Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine.

Biography

Fusako was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Emperor Meiji and Lady Sachiko. Fusako held the childhood appellation "Kane no miya" (Princess Kane).

On 29 April 1909, Princess Kane married Prince Kitashirakawa (1887–1923), the son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Princess Tomiko. Prince Naruhisa succeeded as head of the house of Kitashirakawa-no-miya after the death of his father in November 1895 during the First Sino-Japanese War. Prince and Princess Kitashirakawa had one son and three daughters:

In October 1947, the Kitashirakawa and the other branches of the Japanese Imperial Family other than patrilineal descendants of her half-brother, Emperor Taishō were divested of their titles and privileges during the Allied occupation of Japan and became commoners. The former princess served as custodian and chief priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine until her death on 11 August 1974, aged 84.