Prince Fushimi Kuniie, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Prince Fushimi Kuniie

Japanese prince

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1802

Date of Death: 07-Sep-1872

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Prince Fushimi Kuniie

  • Prince Fushimi Kuniie (???????, Fushimi-no-miya Kuniie-shinno, 24 October 1802 – 5 August 1872) was Japanese royalty.
  • He was the 20th/23rd prince Fushimi-no-miya and the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Sadayuki (1776-1841) and his concubine Seiko, which made him an 11th cousin of Emperor Sakuramachi.
  • Despite being merely a distant cousin to the emperors, he was adopted by Emperor Kokaku as a Yushi in 1817, which was able to make him a Shinno just like an emperor's son.Prince Kuniie succeeded Fushimi-no-miya after his death of his father in 1841.
  • But soon, in 1842, his eldest (natural) son, Zaihan (later Prince Yamashina Akira) ran away with his aunt Princess Takako, by the time Zaihan was a monk in Kaju-ji.
  • Because of this scandal, the prince soon had to abdicate in favor of the only son of his wife, Prince Sadanori; Sadanori was alternatively the sixth out 17 sons of his father.
  • Prince Kuniie took the name Zengaku (??) as a monk afterwards.
  • In 1864, Kuniie succeed as Prince Fushimi-no-miya again; after Emperor Meiji moved the capital of Japan to Tokyo, Prince Kuniie left Kyoto and moved to Tokyo with his family as well in 1872.
  • He abdicated again to his second son (or 14th), Prince Sadanaru, lived in seclusion, and died at the same year. He was the father of 17 princes and 14 princesses (9 of which were born before his marriage to Karatsukasa Hiroko in 1836), including Prince Kuni Asahiko, Prince Yamashina Akira, Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Prince Kan'in Kotohito, the grandfather of Japan's first Post World War II Prime Minister Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, the great-grandfather of Empress Kojun, and the great-great grandfather of Emperor Akihito.
  • He was the common ancestor of Oke.

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