Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Higashifushimi.
Higashifushimi Yorihito
東伏見宮依仁親王
IJN 2nd Fleet
Battles/warsFirst Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
AwardsCollar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class)
Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain[2]
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order[3]
Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito
Prince Higashifushimi
Reign1903-1922
IssueHigashifushimi Kunihide (adopted)
FatherPrince Fushimi Kuniie
Prince Komatsu Akihito (adoptive father)

Japanese imperial family
.

Early life

Born on September 19, 1867, as seventeenth son of

Field Marshal Prince Komatsu Akihito, Prince Kuni Asahiko, General Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Field Marshal Prince Kan'in Kotohito and Field Marshal Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
.

Originally styled "Prince Fushimi Sadamaro", he was adopted into the Yamashina-no-miya household in 1869, followed by the Komatsu-no-miya house in 1885. He was then adopted by Emperor Meiji as a potential heir to the throne in 1886. He succeeded to the Higashifushimi-no-miya title upon the death of the first head, Prince Komatsu Akihito, on February 3, 1903.

Princess Ka'iulani) would marry Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito (then styled Prince Yamashina Yorihito).[4]
Nothing came of the proposal, which might have made a significant impact on the eventual fate of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Military and diplomatic career

Prince Higashifushimi in 1905 postcard
British Royal Navy
units in 1918.

Prince Higashifushimi Yoshihito attended the

Fusō (1901). As captain of the Chiyoda from January 12, 1905, and later as captain of Takachiho (1905), he served in combat during the Russo-Japanese War, for which he was awarded with the Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class). After the end of the war, he served as captain of Kasuga, before joining the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in 1906. He was promoted to rear admiral
on December 1, 1909.

Prince and Princess Higashifushimi represented

IJN 2nd Fleet
in 1917. Promoted to
marshal admiral and the Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
on his death on June 27, 1922.

Marriage and family

Princess Higashifushimi Kaneko

On February 10, 1898, Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito married Iwakura Kaneko (1876–1955), the eldest daughter of Prince Iwakura Tomomi. As the couple remained childless, the Higashifushimi-no-miya lineage became extinct with the death of Prince Yorihito.

In 1931,

Emperor Hirohito directed his brother-in-law, Prince Kuni Kunihide, to leave Imperial Family status and become Count Higashifushimi Kunihide (hakushaku under the kazoku
peerage system), to prevent the Higashifushimi name from dying out.

Dowager Princess Higashifushimi Kaneko became a commoner on October 14, 1947, with the abolition of the cadet branches of the Imperial Family by the

American occupation authorities
. She died in Tokyo in 1955.

Notes

  1. ^ Nishida, Imperial Japanese Navy.
  2. S2CID 253055340
    . Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  3. ^ Visit to London of Admiral His Imperial Highness Prince Yorihito of Higashi Fushimi (Report). Vol. Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/23106.
  4. ^ Armstrong 1904, pp. 62–63; Kuykendall 1967, p. 230
  5. S2CID 253055340
    . Retrieved 16 February 2023.

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