Early Life and Education
She is the fourth daughter of Count Yoshitaka Tsugaru, a descendant of the Tsugaru daimyō of Tsugaru Domain (present day Hirosaki, Aomori and a son of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan). Her mother was from the Mōri clan of Chōshū Domain. Her personal crest is a stylized rhododendron.
Tsugaru studied and graduated from the Gakushuin Women's Junior College in 1961.
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