Yuriko, Princess Mikasa was born on 4 June 1923 as the daughter of Viscount Masanari Takagi and Kuniko Irie. She had an older sister, Kinuko, and two younger sisters, Momoko and Sayoko. At the age of five, she enrolled at the Gakushein kindergarten and continued at the Gakushein school until her graduation in 1941. That [read more]
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa has died today at the age of 101. She died in the early hours of Friday morning, local time. The official cause of death has been given as old age. “I cannot help but feel saddened to hear of the loss. I extend my heartfelt condolences along with other Japanese citizens,” Prime [read more]
On 10 April 1959, Michiko Shōda married the future Emperor Akihito of Japan. They had met on a tennis court in 1957, and the engagement ceremony took place on 14 January 1959. Embed from Getty Images Michiko was a commoner, and it was widely rumoured that her future mother-in-law opposed the engagement. However, the couple [read more]
Masako Owada was born on 9 December 1963 as the daughter of Yumiko Egashira and Hisashi Owada in a public hospital in the Tokyo suburb of Toranomon. Two years later, she was joined in the nursery by twin sisters. When Masako was not even two years old, the family moved to the Soviet Union into [read more]
Princess Huisheng was the favourite niece of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China. She was the first daughter of Prince Pujie (Emperor Puyi’s younger brother and heir to the state of Manchukuo) and his Japanese wife, Princess Hiro Saga. She was most well-known for committing a murder-suicide pact with her lover, Okubo Budo, on Mount [read more]
Hiro Saga was the only Chinese Princess from Japan. She was the second wife of Prince Pujie (Emperor Puyi’s younger brother and heir to the puppet state of Manchukuo). In my last article, I have discussed how Princess Hiro Saga was separated from her husband. She would not reunite with him for sixteen years. During [read more]
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