Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
| Prince Fushimi Sadanaru | |
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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru in Meiji period postcard
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| Born | June 9, 1858 Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | February 4, 1923 (aged 64) Takagami, Kaijō,(Now Chōshi) Chiba, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Army
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| Years of service | 1875-1923 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Commands held | IJA 4th Division, IJA 1st Division, IJA 10th Division |
| Battles/wars |
First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum Order of the Golden Kite (2nd Class) |
| Other work | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan |
Prince Fushimi Sadanaru (伏見宮貞愛親王 Fushimi-no-miya Sadanaru-Shinnō?, June 9, 1858 – February 4, 1923) was the 22nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (branch of the Imperial Family). He was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Prince Sadanaru was born in Kyoto as the fourteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniie (1802–1875) and was thus the half brother of Prince Yamashina Akira, Prince Kuni Asahiko, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito. He succeeded his father as the head of the Fushimi-no-miya family in 1875.
In 1872, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru married Princess Arisugawa Toshiko (1858–1927), the daughter of Prince Arisugawa Takahito, with whom he had one daughter and three sons.
A career army officer, Prince Sadanaru entered the military academy in 1873 and fought as a lieutenant in the Satsuma Rebellion. Promoted to captain in 1878, he studied military tactics at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in France and later in Germany in the 1870s. Upon his return to Japan, he was promoted to major in 1881 and advocated the establishment of a Japanese version of an army General Staff based on the Prussian model. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1884, colonel in 1887 and to major general in 1889. He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum in 1886.
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