Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa

Nagahisa, Prince Kitashirakawa
Japanese Imperial Army Captain Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa
Prince Kitashirakawa
Reign	1 April 1923 – 4 September 1940
Predecessor	Naruhisa Kitashirakawa
Successor	Michihisa Kitashirakawa
Born	(1910-02-19)19 February 1910
Died	4 September 1940(1940-09-04) (aged 30)
Spouse	Sachiko Tokugawa
Issue	Michihisa Kitashirakawa Hatsuko Shimazu
Father	Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa
Mother	Fusako, Princess Kane

Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa (北白川宮永久王, Kitashirakawa-no-miya Nagahisa-ō^?, 19 February 1910 – 4 September 1940) of Japan, was the 4th head of the Kitashirakawa-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the only son of Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa and Fusako, Princess Kane. He succeeded as the head of the Kitashirakawa-no-miya house upon his father's unexpected death in an automobile accident in France in 1923.

On 25 April 1935, Prince Nagahisa married Sachiko Tokugawa, born (1916-08-26)26 August 1916, died 21 January 2015(2015-01-21) (aged 98), the daughter of Baron Yoshikuni Tokugawa. Prince and Princess Kitashirakawa Nagahisa had one son and one daughter:

Prince Nagahisa graduated from the 43rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1931, and was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in field artillery. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1936 and captain in 1939 after his graduation from the 52nd class of the Army Staff College. After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Prince was assigned to the North China Area Army. However, on 14 September 1940, Captain Prince Kitashirakawa died in an airplane crash while on duty in Mengjiang, thus becoming the first member of the Imperial Family killed in World War II .