Shigeko Higashikuni

Shigeko 照宮成子内親王
Princess Teru
Shigeko Higashikuni in 1959
Born	(1925-12-06)6 December 1925 Akasaka Palace, Tokyo City, Japan
Died	23 July 1961(1961-07-23) (aged 35) Hospital of the Imperial Household, Tokyo, Japan
Burial	4 August 1961 Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery, Bunkyo, Tokyo
Spouse	Prince Morihiro Higashikuni (m.1943–1961; her death)
Issue	Prince Nobuhiko Higashikuni () Princess Fumiko Higashikuni Naohiko Higashikuni Hidehiko Higashikuni Yūko Higashikuni
Full name Shigeko (成子?)
House	Imperial House of Japan
Father	Emperor Shōwa
Mother	Empress Kōjun
Religion	Shinto

Styles of Shigeko, Princess Teru (before the abolition of titles in 1947)
Reference style	Her Imperial Highness
Spoken style	Your Imperial Highness
Alternative style	Ma'am

Shigeko Higashikuni (東久邇成子, Higashikuni Shigeko^?, 6 December 1925 – 23 July 1961), born Shigeko, Princess Teru (照宮成子内親王, Teru-no-miya Shigeko Naishinnō^?), was the wife of Prince Morihiro Higashikuni and eldest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. As such, she was the eldest sister to the present Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito.

Princess Shigeko was born in Tokyo while her father was still Prince Regent. Her childhood appellation was Teru-no-miya (照宮^?). As was the practice of the time, she was not raised by her biological parents after the age of three, but by a succession of court ladies at a separate palace built for her and her younger sisters in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo from 1930. Emperor Shōwa opposed the move, but was unable to defy court tradition. She entered the girls elementary department of the Gakushūin Peer's School in 1932 and completed the secondary department in 1942, learning cooking and literature.

On 9 May 1939, Princess Shigeko rode on the Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chiba Prefecture from Chōshi to Tōdaimae and back as part of a Gakushūin school outing.