Marriage & Family
On 26 November 1892, the Prince Kaya Kuninori married Daigo Yoshiko ( 7 December 1865 – 21 November 1941), the daughter of Marquis Daigo Tadayori, the last kuge of that line of court nobles. Prince and Princess Kaya had four children:
- Princess Yukiko (由紀子女王?, 23 November 1895–1946); married Viscount Machijiri
- Prince Tsunenori (恒憲王?, 7 January 1900 – 3 January 1978); married Kujō Toshiko, fifth daughter of Prince Kujō Michizane and niece of Empress Teimei, the consort of Emperor Taishō.
- Princess Sakiko (佐紀子女王?, 30 March 1903 – 1 September 1923); married her second cousin Prince Yamashina Takehiko; no issue. She was residing with her husband at their home in Yuigahama, Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake. The building collapsed, killing the princess and her unborn child. The unborn child was named Prince Yamashina Taha (山階宮他派王, Yamashina-no-miya Taha-ō), born on August 30, 1923, and Taha and his mother were both killed in the earthquake.
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