Princess Nori
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Sayako Kuroda (then Princess Nori)
at Expo 2005, 3 August 2005 |
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18 April 1969 Imperial Household Agency Hospital, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Spouse | Yoshiki Kuroda (m. 2005) | ||||
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| House | Imperial House of Japan | ||||
| Father | Emperor Akihito | ||||
| Mother | Empress Michiko | ||||
| Religion | Shinto | ||||
| Occupation | Supreme Priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine Researcher of Tamagawa University Education Museum |
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| Sayako (清子) |
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Styles of Sayako, Princess Nori (before her marriage) |
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| Reference style | Her Imperial Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Imperial Highness |
Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子 Kuroda Sayako, born 18 April 1969), formerly Sayako, Princess Nori (紀宮清子内親王 Nori-no-miya Sayako Naishinnō), is an imperial Shinto priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine, currently serving as the Supreme Priestess. She is the youngest child and only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan.
Kuroda held the appellation "Nori-no-miya" (Princess Nori), until her marriage to Yoshiki Kuroda on 15 November 2005. As a result of her marriage, she gave up her imperial title and left the Japanese Imperial Family, as required by law.
Princess Sayako was born on 18 April 1969 at the Imperial Household Agency Hospital in Tokyo. She studied at and graduated from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University, with the Bachelor of Letters degree in Japanese language and literature in 1992. Later in the year she was accepted as research associate at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, where she specialized in the study of kingfishers. In 1998, she was appointed researcher at the same institute. She contributed articles about birds to various academic works.
Apart from her research, she has traveled extensively abroad and within Japan, as a representative of the Imperial family.
Prior to Sayako's birth, the announcement about the-then Crown Prince Akihito's engagement and marriage to the then-Ms. Michiko Shōda had drawn opposition from traditionalist groups, because Shōda came from a Roman Catholic family. Although Shōda was never baptized, she was educated in Catholic schools and seemed to share the faith of her parents. Rumors also speculated that Empress Kōjun had opposed the engagement. After the death of Sayako's paternal-grandmother Empress Kōjun in 2000, Reuters reported that she was one of the strongest opponents of her son's marriage, and that in the 1960s, she had driven her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to depression by persistently accusing her of not being suitable for her son.
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