Prince Kuni Asahiko - Progenitor of New Imperial Families

Progenitor of New Imperial Families

Prince Kuni Asahiko was the father of at least eighteen children (nine sons and nine daughters) by at least five different court ladies: (1) Izumitei Shizue, second daughter of Izumitei Shun'eki, a priest at Kamo Shrine, Kyoto, (2) Izumi Makiko, (3) Harada Mitsue, (4) Tarao Utako, and (5) Tsunoda Sugako.

Emperor Meiji directed Prince Asahiko's second, eighth, and ninth sons to found new collateral branches of the imperial family with the hereditary rank of a minor prince of the blood (ōke): Kaya-no-miya, Asaka-no-miya, and Higashikuni-no-miya. Prince Asakiko's seventh son succeeded to the head of the existing Nashimoto-no-miya house. His fourth born son succeeded him as the second head of the Kuni-no-miya.

  1. Princess Chita (智當宮, Chita-no-miya?), ( 10 April 1864 – 14 September 1866), by Izumitei Shizue.
  2. Prince Muchimaro, ( 25 March 1865 – 10 January 1866) by Izumitei Shizue.
  3. Prince Kaya Kuninori (賀陽宮邦憲王?) ( 1 September 1867 – 8 December 1909), by Izumitei Shizue.
  4. Princess Sakako (栄子女王?), ( 18 February 1868 – 9 January 1949) by Izumi Makiko. Married Viscount Higashizono Motonaru
  5. Princess Akiko (安喜子女王?), ( 6 July 1870 – 19 January 1920) by Izumitei Shizue. Married to Marquis Ikeda Tadamasa.
  6. Princess Hiroko (飛子女王?), by Izumitei Shizue
  7. Princess Ayako (絢子女王?), ( 31 May 1872 – 26 July 1946), by Izumi Makiko. Married Viscount Takenuchi Koritada.
  8. Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi (久邇宮邦彦王?), ( 23 July 1873 – 29 January 1929) by Izumi Makiko
  9. Prince Nashimoto Morimasa (梨本宮守正王?), ( 9 March 1874 – 2 January 1951), by Harada Mitsue
  10. Prince Kuni Taka (久邇宮多嘉王?), ( 17 August 1875 – 1 October 1937), by Izumitei Shizue
  11. Princess Motoko (素子女王?), ( 27 March 1876 – 21 January 1918), by Izumi Makiko. Married Viscount Sengoku Masayuki.
  12. Prince Nobu (暢王?), ( 28 December 1876 – 7 August 1877), by Izumitei Shizue.
  13. Princess Suzuko (篶子女王?), ( 16 October 1878 – 3 January 1947) by Izumi Makiko. Married Count Mibu Moto
  14. Princess Yasuko, ( 21 June 1878 – 16 July 1879), by Izumi Makiko.
  15. Prince Tarashihiko, ( 24 September 1881 – 24 September 1881), by Izumi Makiko,
  16. Princess Atsuko (純子?), ( 8 March 1884 – 13 June 1911), by Terao Utako. Married Viscount Oda Hidezane.
  17. Prince Asaka Yasuhiko (朝香宮鳩彦王?) ( 2 October 1887 – 13 April 1981), by Tsunoda Sugako.
  18. Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko (東久邇宮稔彦王?), ( 3 December 1887 – 20 January 1990), by Terao Utako.

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