Sayako Kuroda
| Sayako 紀宮清子内親王 |
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Sayako Kuroda (then Princess Nori)
at Expo 2005, 3 August 2005 |
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18 April 1969 Hospital of the Imperial Household, 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 | Shinto 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 |
| Alternative style | Ma'am |
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. 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, she gave up her imperial title and left the Japanese Imperial Family, as required by law.
Princess Sayako 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 Japanese 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.
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