Prince Tsunehisa Takeda

Prince Tsunehisa Takeda
Prince Tsunehisa Takeda
	Prince Tsunehisa Takeda in formal court dress
Born	September 22, 1882; Kyoto, Japan
Died	April 23, 1919 (aged 36); Tokyo, Japan
Spouses	Masako, Princess Tsune (m. 1908)
Issue	Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda; Princess Ayako Takeda;
Father	Major General
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War
Other work	House of Peers

Prince Tsunehisa Takeda (竹田宮恒久王, Takeda-no-miya Tsunehisa-ō, September 22, 1882 – April 23, 1919) was the founder of the

Imperial Family

.

Biography

Prince Tsunehisa Takeda was the eldest son of

Guards Cavalry Regiment and served with distinction in the Russo-Japanese War. It is commonly stated that he was standing next to Lieutenant Yoshinaga Nanbu, the 42nd chieftain of the Nanbu clan, during the Battle of Mukden when the latter was hit by a Russian bullet and died in combat; however, this incident occurred on March 4, 1905, after Prince Tsunehisa had been recalled to Japan

.

In 1906, he was authorized to take the name of "Takeda" and to start a

Spanish influenza. Due to his death, the coming-of-age ceremony for his nephew-in-law, Prince Hirohito

had to be postponed by one year to 1920.

Decorations

1903 – Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers^[1]
1906 – Order of the Golden Kite, 5th class ^[2]
1913 – Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum^[3]

Family

Prince Tsunehisa Takeda had a son and a daughter:

Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda (竹田宮恒徳王, Takeda-no-miya Tsuneyoshi ō) (1909–1992)^[4]
Princess Ayako Takeda
(禮子女王, Ayako Joō), (1913–2003), married Count Sano Tsunemitsu.

Princess Takeda Masako, wife
Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, son and heir
Princess Takeda Ayako, daughter

Ancestry

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Ancestors of Prince Tsunehisa Takeda

16. Prince Fushimi Kuniyori (1733-1802)

8. Prince Fushimi Sadayuki (1776-1841)

4. Prince Fushimi Kuniie (1802-1872)

2. Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (1847-1895)

10. Horiuchi Mamoru

5. Horiuchi Nobuko

1. Prince Takeda Tsunehisa

3. Saruhashi Sachiko

References

^ 『官報』第5881号「叙任及辞令」February 13, 1903
^ 『官報』号外「叙任及辞令」December 30, 1906
^ 『官報』第378号「叙任及辞令」November 1, 1913
^ Nihon Gaiji Kyōkai. (1943). The Japan Year book, p. 5.
^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2017.

Fujitani, T; Cox, Alvin D (1998). Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press.
ISBN 0-520-21371-8
.

Lebra, Sugiyama Takie (1995). Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility. University of California Press.
ISBN 0-520-07602-8
.

Nihon Gaiji Kyōkai. (1943). The Japan Year Book. Tokyo: Foreign Affairs Association of Japan. OCLC 1782308

External links

Media related to Prince Takeda Tsunehisa at Wikimedia Commons

[1] 『官報』第5881号「叙任及辞令」February 13, 1903

[2] 『官報』号外「叙任及辞令」December 30, 1906

[3] 『官報』第378号「叙任及辞令」November 1, 1913

[4] Nihon Gaiji Kyōkai. (1943). The Japan Year book, p. 5.

[descent-5] "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2017.

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