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Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu

Nobuhito
高松宮宣仁親王
Prince Takamatsu
Takamatsunomiya nobuhito.jpg
Prince Takamatsu in December 1940
Born (1905-01-03)3 January 1905
Aoyama Detached Palace, Tokyo City, Japan
Died 3 February 1987(1987-02-03) (aged 82)
Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Burial 10 February 1987
Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery, Bunkyo, Tokyo
Spouse Kikuko Tokugawa
(m. 1930–1987; his death)
Full name
Nobuhito (宣仁?)
House Imperial House of Japan
Father Emperor Taishō
Mother Empress Teimei
Religion Shinto
Full name
Nobuhito (宣仁?)
Styles of
Prince Takamatsu
Imperial Coat of Arms
Reference style His Imperial Highness
Spoken style Your Imperial Highness
Alternative style Sir

Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (高松宮宣仁親王 Takamatsu-no-miya Nobuhito Shinnō?, 3 January 1905 – 3 February 1987) was the third son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako) and a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). He became heir to the Takamatsu-no-miya (formerly Arisugawa-no-miya), one of the four shinnōke or branches of the imperial family entitled to inherit the Chrysanthemum throne in default of a direct heir. From the mid-1920s until the end of World War II, Prince Takamatsu pursued a career in the Japanese Imperial Navy, eventually rising to the rank of captain. Following the war, the prince became patron or honorary president of various organizations in the fields of international cultural exchange, the arts, sports, and medicine. He is mainly remembered for his philanthropic activities as a member of the Imperial House of Japan.

Prince Nobuhito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo to then-Crown Prince Yoshihito and Crown Princess Sadako. His childhood appellation was Teru-no-miya (Prince Teru). Like his elder brothers, Prince Hirohito and Prince Yasuhito, he attended the boy's elementary and secondary departments of the Peers' School (Gakushuin). When Prince Arisugawa Takehito (1862–1913), the tenth head of the collateral imperial house of Arisugawa-no-miya, died without a male heir, Emperor Taishō placed Prince Nobuhito in the house. The name of the house reverted to the original Takamatsu-no-miya. The new Prince Takamatsu was a fourth cousin, four times removed of Prince Takehito.


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