Kazuko Takatsukasa
| Kazuko 孝宮和子内親王 |
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| Princess Taka | |||||
Takatsukasa Wedding, 1950
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30 September 1929 Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo City, Japan |
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| Died | 26 May 1989 (aged 59) Tokyo, Japan |
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| Burial | Nison-in, Ukyō-ku, Kyoto | ||||
| Spouse | Toshimichi Takatsukasa (m. 1950; d. 1966) |
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| Issue | Naotake Takatsukasa (adopted) | ||||
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| House | Imperial House of Japan | ||||
| Father | Emperor Shōwa | ||||
| Mother | Empress Kōjun | ||||
| Religion | Shinto | ||||
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| Kazuko (和子?) |
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Styles of Kazuko, Princess Taka (before her marriage) |
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| Reference style | Her Imperial Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Imperial Highness |
| Alternative style | Ma'am |
Kazuko Takatsukasa (鷹司和子 Takatsukasa Kazuko?, 30 September 1929 – 26 May 1989), formerly Kazuko, Princess Taka (孝宮和子内親王 Taka-no-miya Kazuko Naishinnō?), was the wife of Toshimichi Takatsukasa and third daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. As such, she was an elder sister to the present Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito.
Princess Taka was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Her childhood appellation was Taka-no-miya (孝宮?). As was the practice of the time, she was not raised by her biological parents, but by a succession of court ladies at a separate palace built for her and her younger sisters in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo. She graduated from the Gakushuin Peer’s School in March 1948, and spent a year in the household of former Chamberlain of Japan Saburo Hyakutake learning skills to be a bride. On 21 May 1950, she married Toshimichi Takatsukasa, the eldest son of ex-Duke and guji of Meiji Shrine, Nobusuke Takatsukasa. The marriage received much publicity as it was the first marriage of a member of the imperial family to a commoner.
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