Marriage
On February 4, 1930, Prince Takamatsu married Tokugawa Kikuko (December 16, 1911 - December 17, 2004), the second daughter of Prince Tokugawa Yoshihisa (peer). The bride was a paternal granddaughter of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last ShÅgun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the maternal granddaughter of the late Prince Arisugawa Takehito. Prince and Princess Takamatsu had no children.
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