Marriage & Family
On 9 March 1907, Prince Taka of Kuni married Minase Shizuko ( 1 September 1884 – 27 September 1959), the eldest daughter of Viscount Minase Tadasuki. The prince and princess had five children: two daughters who married into kazoku houses, one son who died in childhood, and two other sons who left the imperial family and received peerages upon adulthood:
- Princess Hatsuko (発子女王?, 16 April 1911 – 26 June 1915).
- Prince Yoshihiko (賀彦王?, 28 May 1912 – 18 June 1918).
- Princess Kuniko (恭仁子?, 18 May 1917–1996); m. 2 April 1939 to Prince Nijō Tanemoto ( 10 June 1910 – 28 August 1985) and had issue.
- Prince Iehiko (家彦王?, 17 March 1920 -); renounced imperial title and created Count Uji, October 1942; m. Kazuko ( 26 June 1926 - ), third daughter of Prince Takatsukasa Nobusuke, and had issue.
- Prince Norihiko (徳彦王?, 22 November 1922 - 7 February 2007), renounced imperial title and created Count Tatsuda, 7 June 1943; adopted by Nashimoto Itsuko, the widow of former Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, 28 April 1966, and changed surname to Nashimoto; current head of the former Nashimoto-no-miya house; m. at Tokyo 1945 (div. 1979) Princess Kuni Masako ( 8 December 1926 - ), eldest daughter of Prince Kuni Asaakira; and has issue:
Prince Taka became acting grand custodian and chief priest of the Shrines of Ise in September 1909, due to the illness of his half brother, Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi. He assumed the post on a permanent basis following Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi's death.
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