Princess Masako Takeda Explained

Masako
Princess Takeda
Birth Name:Masako, Princess Tsune
(Japanese: 常宮昌子内親王)
Birth Date:30 September 1888
Birth Place:Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Death Place:Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Issue:Prince Tsuneyoshi of Takeda
Princess Ayako of Takeda
House:Imperial House of Japan
Father:Emperor Meiji
Mother:Sono Sachiko

, born, was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the third child and second daughter of Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine.

Biography

Masako was born in Tokyo Prefecture, the daughter of Emperor Meiji and Lady Sachiko. She held the childhood appellation "Tsune no miya" (Princess Tsune).

Her future husband, Prince Tsunehisa Takeda, was the eldest son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and thus the brother of Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa. Emperor Meiji authorized Prince Tsunehisa to start a new princely house in March 1906, largely to provide a household with suitable status for his sixth daughter Princess Tsune. Prince Takeda married Princess Masako on 30 April 1908, by whom he had a son and a daughter:

    1. , married Count Sano Tsunemitsu.

She died on 8 March 1940, aged 51.

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