IMPERIAL JAPAN

 
TITLE: HIM Emperor (Tenno) RELIGION: Shinto
CAPITAL: Tokyo DYNASTY:
   
PRESENT RULER: HIM Emperor HEISEI [Akihito], 125th Emperor of Japan (1989/-)
born 23rd December 1933 in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, originally titled Tsugu-no-miya Akihito, Heir Apparent from birth, formally invested as Crown Prince on 10th November 1951, married 10th April 1959 in Imperial Palace, Tokyo, HIM Empress Michiko [Shoda Michiko], born 20th October 1934 in Tokyo, daughter of Shoda Hidesaburo, and has issue.
  • HIH Crown Prince Naruhito [Kotashi], born 23rd February 1960 in Tokyo, originally titled Hiro-no-Miya Naruhito, Heir Apparent from 7th Jan 1989, formally invested as Crown Prince on the 23rd Feb 1990, married 9th June 1993 in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Princess Masako [Owada Masako], born 9th December 1963 in Tokyo, and has issue.
    • HIH Princess Toshi [Toshi-no-miya Aiko Naishinno], born 1st December 2001.
  • HIH Prince Fumihito [Akishino], born 30th November 1965 in Tokyo, originally titled Aya-no-Miya Fumuhito, 1st Prince Akishino-no-Miya [cr.1990], married 29th June 1990 in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Kawashima Kiko, born 11th September 1966 in Shizuoka, and has issue. 
    • HIH Princess Mako Akishino, born 23rd October 1991 in Tokyo.
    • HIH Princess Kako Akishino, born 1994.
    • HIH Prince Hisahito, born 6th September 2006.
  • HiH Princess Sayako Nori, born 18th April 1969.
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)
  • HIM Emperor KOMEI120. 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)
  • HIM Emperor MEIJI122. 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)
 
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