Prince Arisugawa Takehito
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Prince Arisugawa Takehito
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| Born |
January 13, 1862 Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | July 5, 1913 (aged 51) Kobe, Japan (actual) Tokyo, Japan (official) |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Years of service | 1874 -1913 |
| Rank | Marshal Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class) Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum. |
Prince Arisugawa Takehito (有栖川宮威仁親王 Arisugawa-no-miya Takehito-Shinnō?, January 13, 1862 – July 5, 1913) was the 10th head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Prince Takehito was born in Kyoto as a scion of the Arisugawa-no-miya (有栖川宮家?) house, one of the shinnōke branches of the Imperial Family of Japan, which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out. As he was born when the country was still under rule by the Tokugawa Bakufu, he was sent as a youth into the Buddhist priesthood, and assigned to serve at the monzeki temple of Myōhō-in in Kyoto. After the Meiji Restoration, he was recalled to secular life, and relocated to Tokyo in 1871.
In 1874, on orders from Emperor Meiji, Prince Arisugawa enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. In 1877, despite his youth, he was sent as an observer to the Satsuma Rebellion, to observe the devastation first hand, and landed in Kagoshima shortly after it was secured by Imperial forces.
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