Prince Fushimi Kuniie
伏見宮邦家親王
Prince Fushimi
Reign1841–1842
PredecessorPrince Fushimi Sadayuki
SuccessorPrince Fushimi Sadanori
Reign1864–1872
PredecessorPrince Fushimi Sadanaru
SuccessorPrince Fushimi Sadanaru
Born(1802-10-24)24 October 1802
Died5 August 1872(1872-08-05) (aged 69)
FatherPrince Fushimi Sadayuki
Emperor Kōkaku (adoptive father)

Prince Fushimi Kuniie (伏見宮邦家親王, Fushimi-no-miya Kuniie-shinnō, 24 October 1802 – 5 August 1872) was Japanese royalty. He was the 20th/23rd prince head of the House of Fushimi and the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Sadayuki (1776–1841)[1] and his concubine Seiko,[note 1] which made him an 11th cousin of Emperor Sakuramachi. Despite being merely a distant cousin to the emperors, he was adopted by Emperor Kōkaku as a son in 1817, which made him a full prince of the blood just like an emperor's natural-born son.[1]

Prince Kuniie became head of the Fushimi-no-miya after the death of his father in 1841. But soon, in 1842, his eldest (natural) son, Zaihan (later Prince Yamashina Akira) ran away with his aunt Princess Takako, while Zaihan was a monk in Kajū-ji. Because of this scandal, the prince soon had to abdicate in favor of the only son of his wife, Prince Sadanori, who was the sixth out of 17 sons of his father. Prince Kuniie took the name Zengaku (禪樂) as a monk afterwards. In 1864, Kuniie succeeded as Prince Fushimi-no-miya again. After Emperor Meiji moved the capital of Japan to Tokyo, Prince Kuniie left Kyoto and moved to Tokyo with his family in 1872. He abdicated again to his second son (or 14th), Prince Sadanaru, lived in seclusion, and died the same year.

He was the father of 17 princes and 14 princesses (9 of which were born before his marriage to Karatsukasa Hiroko in 1836), including Prince Kuni Asahiko, Prince Yamashina Akira, Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Prince Kan'in Kotohito, the grandfather of Japan's first post-World War II Prime Minister Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, the great-grandfather of Empress Kōjun, and the great-great grandfather of Emperor Akihito. He was the common ancestor of the Ōke.

Marriage and Children

On January 9, 1836, Prince Kuniie married Takatsukasa Hiroko (1814–1892), daughter of Takatsukasa Masahiro (also, a second cousin of Emperor Ninkō paternally) and had had 7 children.Beside his legal wife, the prince had nine concubine with whom he fathered 24 children.

Consort and issue(s):

Among 12 surviving sons of Prince Kuniie, 2 of them succeeded Fushimi-no-miya, other 9 were granted with Shinnōke and the other one became a count.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ a b While Fushimi Sadayuki's official wife was Ichijo Teruko (1795–1828, daughter of Ichijō Teruyoshi), it's known that Seiko was an adopted daughter of Niwata Shigeyoshi.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "『 親 王 ・ 諸 王 略 傳 』 邦 ［邦家］". Archived from the original on 2006-05-06. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
  2. ^ Father of Empress Shōken
  3. ^ She became a Buddhist nun of Zenkō-ji in 1835
  4. ^ "久我誓円". WEB版新纂浄土宗大辞典. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  5. ^ Adopted by Takatsukasa Masamichi, and reduced from Imperial status to nobility
  6. ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 December 2020.
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