PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- 107. HIM Emperor GO
YŌZEI [Kazuhito, Katahito, Chikahito]
1586/1611, born 31st December 1572, son of Prince Masahito, fifth-born
son of Emperor Ōgimachi; Crown Prince [cr.5.11.1586], succeeded his
grandfather on 7th November 1586; abdicated in 1611 in favor of his
third son; a patron of literature and art; he married (a),
Furuichi Taneko, married (b), daughter of Chūtō Tokohiro, and had
issue, as well as further issue by concubines, (a), Konoe Sakiko, a
Court Lady, later became the Empress Dowager
Chūka, (b), Nakayama Chikako, a Lady-in-Waiting, (c), Hino Teruko, a
Lady-in-Waiting, (d), Jimyōin Motoko, a Lady-in-Waiting, (e), Niwata
Tomoko, a Lady-in-Waiting, (f),
Hamuro Nobuko, Lady-in-Waiting, (g), Nishinotōin Tokiko, an Imperial
Handmaid. He died 25th September
1617.
- HIH Princess Shōkō (eldest daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Princess Bunkō (2nd daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Princess Seishi (3rd daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Prince Kotohito (3rd son, by Konoe Sakiko), succeeded
as HIM Emperor GOMINO-O
(qv)
- HIH Princess Son'ei (4th daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Prince Konoe Nobuhiro (4th son, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Prince Yoshihito (7th son, by Konoe Sakiko), born
29th April 1603 in Kyoto, 1st
Prince
Takamatsu-no-miya
(later changed to Arisugawa), died 14th
July
1638 (1640) in Kyoto.
- HIH Prince Ichijō Akiyoshi (9th son, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Princess Teishi? (5th daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Prince Morochika (10th son, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Princess Son'ren? (11th daughter, by Konoe Sakiko)
- HIH Prince Katahito (eldest son, by Nakayama Chikako),
became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Prince (name unknown)
(2nd son, by Nakayama Chikako), became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Prince Toshiatsu (5th son, by Hino Teruko) became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Prince Gyōnen (6th son, by Jimyōin Motoko) became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Prince Ryōjun (8th son, by Niwata Tomoko) became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Princess Sonsei (10th daughter, by Hamuro Nobuko)
- HIH Princess Eishū (6th daughter, by Nishinotōin Tokiko)
- HIH Prince Kō'un'in-no-miya (11th son, by Nishinotōin
Tokiko)
- HIH Prince Rei'un'in-no-miya (12th son, by Furuichi
Taneko)
- HIH Prince Dōkō (13th son, by Furuichi Taneko), became a
Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Kūkain-no-miya (9th daughter, by Furuichi Taneko)
- HIH Prince Dōshū (14th son, by the daughter of Chūtō
Tokohiro), became a Buddhist Priest.
- HIH Prince Ji'in (15th son, by the daughter of Chūtō
Tokohiro), became a Buddhist Priest.
- 108. HIM Emperor GOMINO-O
[Kotohito] 1611/1629,
born 1596, married (amongst others), 1620, HIH Princess Tokugawa Kazuko
[Tofuku Monin], born 1607, died 1678, daughter of HIH Prince Tokugawa Hidetada, the second Shogun, and had
issue. He died 1680.
- HIH Prince Takahito (by Kazuko), born 1621, died 1628.
- HIM Empress Meioshi/Myosho [Okiko] (by Tokugawa
Kazuko)(qv)
- HIM Emperor GO KOMYO [Tsuguhito] (qv)
- HIM Emperor GO SAI [Nagahito] (qv)
- HIM Emperor REIGEN [Satohito] (qv)
- 109. HIM Empress Meioshi
[Myosho]
1629/1643, born 1623, died 1696.
- 110. HIM Emperor GO
KOMYO [Tsuguhito]
1643/1654, born 1633, died 1654.
- 111. HIM Emperor GO
SAI [Takamatsu-no-miya Nagahito Shinnō]
1654/1663 (abdicated), born 1637, 2nd Prince Takamatsu-no-miya 1647,
married and had
issue.
He died 26th March 1685.
- HIH Prince Yukihito, born 9th April 1656, 3rd Prince Arisugawa-no-miya,
married and had issue. He died 20th August 1699.
- HIH Prince Arisugawa Masahito
- 112. HIM Emperor REIGEN
[Satohito]
1663/1687, born 1654, married and had issue. He died 1732.
- HIM Emperor HIGASHIYAMA (qv)
- HIH Prince Arisugawa Yorihito, 5th Prince Arisugawa-no-miya
(qv)
- 113. HIM Emperor HIGASHIYAMA
1687/1709, born 1675, married and had issue. He died 1709.
- HIM Emperor NAKAMIKADO [Yasuhito] (qv)
- HIH Prince Kanin Naohito, born 1703/1704, 1st Prince
Kanin-no-miya,
married
and had issue. He died 1752/1753.
- HIH Prince Sukehito, born 1733, 2nd Prince
Kanin-no-miya, married and
had
issue. He died 1794.
- HIM Emperor KOKAKU [Tomohito] (qv)
- HIH Prince Kanehito, born 1765, died 1819.
- HIH Prince Kanin Haruhito, born 1768, 3rd Prince Kanin-no-miya,
married and had issue. He died 1829.
- 114. HIM Emperor NAKAMIKADO
[Yasuhito] 1709/1735, born 1701, married and had issue. He died 1737.
- HIM Emperor SAKURAMACHI [Akihito] (qv)
- 115. HIM Emperor SAKURAMACHI
[Akihito] 1735/1747, born 1720, married and had issue. He died
1750.
- HIM Emperor MOMOZONO [Tohito] (qv)
- HIM Empress Go Sakuramachi [Toshiko] (qv)
- 116. HIM Emperor MOMOZONO
[Tohito]
1747/1762, born 1741, married and had issue. He died 1762.
- HIM Emperor GO MOMOZONO [Hidehito] (qv)
- HIH Prince Fushimi Sadamochi, 17th Prince Fushimi-no-miya (qv).
- 117. HIM Empress Go
Sakuramachi
[Toshiko] 1762/1771, born 1740, died 1813.
- 118. HIM Emperor GO
MOMOZONO
[Hidehito] 1771/1779, born 5th August 1758, Crown Prince [cr.1768], had
issue by Lady Konoe Koreko, one daughter. He died 16th December 1779.
- Shin-Seiwa-In Yoshiko, born 1779, styled Chôgo
Shin-Seiwa-In,
married
HIM Emperor KOKAKU of Kanin House (see above and below).
- (A) HIH Prince
Tomohito, succeeded as HIM Emperor KOKAKU (qv)
- 119. HIM Emperor KOKAKU
[originally
titled Sachi-no-miya Tomohito] 1779/1817, born 1771, married
Chôgo
Shin-Seiwa-In Yoshiko, born 1779, daughter of HIM Emperor GO MOMOZONO
(see
above), and had issue. He died 1840.
- HIM Emperor NINKO [Ayahito] (qv)
- 120. HIM
Emperor NINKO [Ayahito] 1817/1846, born 1800, married and had
issue.
He died 1846.
- HIM Emperor KOMEI [Osahito] (fourth son) (qv)
- HIH Princess Kazu-no-miya, born 1832, styled Kazu no
miya Chikako Naishinnō, married 11th March 1862, HIH
Prince Tokugawa
Yasunori, 14th Shogun. She died 1887.
- HIH Prince Katsura, styled Katsura no miya Misahito
Shinnō,
succeeded as 9th Prince Katsura-no-miya. He died young.
- HIH Princess Katsura, styled Katsura no miya Sumiko
Naishinnō, born 1838, succeeded as the 10th head of the
Katsura-no-miya house, in 1857, married 1869, HIH Prince Yamashina
Akira, and had issue. She died 1881.
- 121. HIM Emperor KOMEI
[Osahito]
1846/1867, born 1831, originally titled Hiro-no-miya Osahito [Shinnō],
married 1stly, Lady Nakayama Yoshiko (Imperial
Concubine),
born 1835, (daughter of Nakayama Tadayasu), died 1907, married 2ndly,
Kujo
Asako [Empress Dowager Eisho], born 1st January 1834, (imperial consort
of the second rank), died 11th January 1898, and had issue. He died 8th
January 1867.
- HIM Emperor MEIJI [Mutsuhito] (by Nakayama Yoshiko) (qv)
- 122. HIM
Emperor MEIJI
[Mutsuhito]
1867/1912, born 3rd November 1852 in Kyoto, Shinnō [cr.1860], declared
Crown Prince and made the legal son of Asako Nyogo on the 11th July
1860,
Styled Sachi-no-Miya Mutsuhito from 1860, married 1867, Ichijo Haruko
[Empress
Dowager Shoken], born 28th May 1850, (daughter of Ichijo Tadako), died
19th April 1914, buried in Momoyama, Kyoto, and had issue, as well as
issue
by, Yanagiwara Naruko, born 1855, Imperial Concubine, died 1943, and by
Sono Sachiko, born 1868, Imperial Concubine, died 1947, 5 sons and 9
daughter,
(4 sons and 5 daughters died young). He died 30th July 1912, buried in
Momoyama, Kyoto.
- HIM Emperor TAISHO [Yoshihito] (by Yanagiwara Naruko),
(qv)
- HIH Princess Masako [Tsune-no-Miya] (by Sono Sachiko),
born 30th
September
1888 in Tokyo, married 30th April 1908, HIH Prince Takeda Tsunehisa,
born
22nd September 1882, (son of Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Shimazu
Tomoko),
1st Prince Takeda-no-Miya [cr.1906], died 23rd April 1919 in Tokyo, and
had issue. She died 8th March 1940.
- HIH Princess Fusako [Kane-no-Miya] (by Sono Sachiko),
born 28th January
1890, married 29th April 1909, HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa, born
18th April 1887, (son of Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Shimazu Tomoko),
3rd
Prince Kitashirakawa-no-Miya 1895/1923, died 2nd April 1923 in Paris.
She
died 1974.
- HIH Princess Nobuko [Fami-no-Miya] (by Sono Sachiko),
born 7th August
1891
in Tokyo, married 6th May 1909, HIH Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, born 2nd
October
1887 in Kyoto, (son of Kuni Asahiko), 1st Prince Asaka-no-miya
[cr.1906],
died 13th April 1981, and had issue. She died 3rd November 1933 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Toshiko [Yasu-no-Miya] (by Sono Sachiko),
born 11th May
1896,
married 18th May 1915, HIH Prince (till 1947) Higashikuni Naruhiko,
born
3rd December 1887 in Kyoto, (son of Kuni Asahiko), 1st Prince
Higashikuni-no-miya
[cr.1906], died 26th January 1990 in Tokyo, and had issue. She died 5th
March 1978.
- HIH Prince (till 1947) Higashikuni Morihiro, born 6th
May 1916, married
13th October 1943 in Tokyo, his cousin, HIH Princess Shigeko
[Teru-no-Miya],
born 6th December 1925 in Tokyo, (daughter of HIM Emperor SHOWA and
Kuni
Nagako), died 23rd July 1961, and had issue. He died 1st February 1969.
- HIH Prince Michihito
- HIH Prince Yukihito
- HIH Prince Teruhito
- 123. HIM Emperor TAISHO
[Yoshihito]
1912/1926, born 31st August 1879, originally titled Haru-no-Miya
Yoshihito,
declared Heir Apparent on 31st August 1887 and formally invested as
Crown
Prince on 3rd November 1888, married 25th May 1900, Kujo Sadako,
[Empress
Dowager Teimei], born 25th June 1884, daughter of Prince Kujo Michitaka
(peer), died 17th May 1951, buried in Musahino Imperial Mausoleum, and
had issue. He died 25th December 1926 in Hayama.
- HIM Emperor SHOWA [Hirohito] (qv)
- HIH Prince Chichibu Yasuhito [Atsu-no miya Yasuhito],
born 25th June
1902
in Tokyo, 1st Prince Chichibu-no-Miya [cr.1922], married 28th September
1928 in Tokyo, HIH Princess Matsudaira Setsuko, born 9th September 1909
in Walton-on-Thames, UK, (daughter of Matsudaira Yasuhito and Nabeshima
Nubuko), died 25th August 1995 in Tokyo. He died sp 24th
January
1953 in Kugenuma.
- HIH Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu [Teru-no-miya Nobuhito],
born 3rd January
1905 in Tokyo, 1st Prince Takamatsu-no-Miya [cr.1913], married 4th
February
1930 in Tokyo, HIH Princess Tokugawa Kikuko, born 26th December 1911 in
Tokyo,
(daughter
of HIH Prince Tokugawa Yoshihisa and HIH Prince Arisugawa Miyeko). He
died sp 3rd
February
1987.
- HIH Prince Takahito Mikasa [Sumi-no-Miya Takahito], born
2nd December
1915
in Tokyo, 1st Prince Mikasa-no-Miya [cr.1935], married 27th October
1941
in Tokyo, HIH Princess Takagi Yuriko, born 4th June 1923, daughter of
Viscount
Takagi Masanori, and has issue.
- HIH Princess (till 1966) Yasuko Mikasa, born 26th April
1944, married
16th
December 1966, Konoe Tadateru Konoe (grandnephew of Konoe Fumimaro
1895-1945).
- HIH Prince Tomohito Mikasa, born 5th January 1946,
married 7th November
1980 in Tokyo, Aso Nobuko, born 9th April 1955, and has issue.
- HIH Princess Akiko Mikasa, born 20th December 1981 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Princess Yoko Mikasa, born 25th October 1983 in
Tokyo.
- HIH Prince Yoshihito Katsura, born 11th February 1948,
1st Prince
Katsura-no-Miya
[cr.1986].
- HIH Prince Norihito Takamado, born 29th December 1954,
1st Prince
Takamado-no-Miya
[cr.?], married 6th December 1984, Tottori Hisako, born 10th July 1953
in Tokyo, and had issue. He died 21st November 2002.
- HIH Princess Tsuguko Takamado, born 6th March
1986.
- HIH Princess Noriko Takamado, born 21st July
1988.
- HIH Princess Ayako Takamado, born 15th September 1990.
- HIH Princess Masako Mikasa, born 23rd October 1951,
married Sen
Masayuki.
- 124. HIM Emperor SHOWA
[Michi-no-Miya
Hirohito] 1926/1989, born 29th April 1901, married 26th January 1924 in
the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, HIH Princess Kuni Nagako [HIH Crown
Princess Nagako 1924/1926, HIM Empress Nagako 1926/1989, HIM Empress
Dowager Nagako 1989/2000,
posthumously
known as HIM Empress Kojun (2000)], born 6th March 1903 in Tokyo,
(daughter of
HIH Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi and HIH Princess Shimazu Chikako), died 16th
June 2000 in Tokyo,
buried
25th July 2000 in the Musahino Imperial Mausoleum, and had issue. He
died
7th January 1989, buried 24th February 1989 in the Musahino Imperial
Mausoleum.
- HIH Princess (till 1947) Shigeko [Teru-no-Miya Shigeko],
born 6th
December 1925
in Tokyo, married 13th October 1943 in Tokyo, her cousin, HIH Prince
(till
1947) Higashikuni Morihiro, born 6th May 1916, died 1st February 1969,
and had issue. She died 23rd July 1961.
- HIH Princess Sachiko [Hisa-no-Miya Sachiko], born 11th
September
1927, died 8th
March 1928.
- HIH Princess (till 1950) Kazuko [Taka-no-Miya Kazuko],
born 30th
September
1929
in Tokyo, married 20th May 1950, Mr. Takatsukasa Toshimichi, born 26th
August
1923, died 28th January 1966. She died 28th May 1989 in Tokyo.
- HIH Princess (till 1952) Atsuko [Yori-no-Miya Atsuko],
born 7th
March 1931 in
Tokyo, married 10th October 1952, Mr. Ikeda Takamasa.
- HIM Emperor HEISEI [Akihito] (qv)
- HIH Prince Masahito Hitachi [Yoshi-no-miya Masahito],
born 28th
November 1935 in
Tokyo, 1st Prince Hitachi-no-Miya [cr. 1.10.1964], married 30th
September
1964,
HIH Princess Tsugaru Hanako, born 19th July 1940, 4th daughter of Count
Tsugaru Yoshitaka.
- HIH Princess (till 1960) Takako [Suga-no-Miya Takako],
born 2nd
March 1939 in
Tokyo, married 10th March 1960, (HIH Prince) Shimazu Hisanaga, and has
issue.
- (HIH Prince) Shimazu Yoshihisa,
born 5th
April 1962.
- 125. HIM Emperor HEISEI
[Akihito]
(see above)
|