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Extended imperial family members gathered at Kyoto Imperial Palace
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Emperor Shōwa and members of the extended imperial family (c. 1937)

The Template:Nihongo were branches of the Japanese imperial family (皇族 Kōka) created from branches of the Fushimi-no-miya house, the last surviving Shinnōke cadet branch. All but two (the Kan'in-no-miya and Nashimoto-no-miya) of these ōke (王家 "Royal Houses") were founded by the descendants of Prince Fushimi Kuniie, even if later those two were also descendants of Prince Kuniee genetically as his descendants were adopted into those families. The ōke were stripped of their membership in the imperial family by the American Occupation Authorities in October 1947, as part of the abolition of 11 collateral branches (imperial houses) with 51 members.<ref name="nip">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After that point, only the immediate family of Emperor Shōwa and those of his three brothers retained membership in the imperial family. However, unofficial heads of these collateral families still exist for most and are listed herein.

In recent years, as a solution to the Japanese succession controversy, conservatives have proposed to reinstate several of the former imperial branches or else to allow the imperial family to adopt male members of the former imperial princely houses.

List of ōke

The member houses until 1947 were, in order of founding:

Unless otherwise stated, all princes listed herein are the sons of their predecessor.

Fushimi-no-miya

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Fushimi-no-miya house was formed in 1409 by Prince Yoshihito.

The Fushimi-no-miya house is the ancestor of all the kyū-miyake families except Kan'in-no-miya.

Kan'in-no-miya

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Kan'in-no-miya house was formed in 1718 by Prince Naohito.

Nashimoto-no-miya

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:Multiple image The Nashimoto-no-miya house was formed by Prince Moriosa, son of Prince Fushimi Sadayoshi (father of Prince Fushimi Kuniye)

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1819 1870 1885
2 Template:Nihongo 1873 1885 1885 1908 grand-nephew of Moriosa; resigned to return to the Yamashina household
3 Template:Nihongo 1874 1885 1947 1951 cousin of Kikumaro and fourth son of Kuni-no-miya Asahiko

Kuni-no-miya

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The Kuni-no-miya house was formed by Prince Asahiko, fourth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1824 1863 1891 became shinnō in 1871
2 Template:Nihongo 1873 1891 1929 father of Empress Kojun
3 Template:Nihongo 1901 1929 1947 1959
4 Template:Nihongo 1929 1959

Yamashina-no-miya

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Prince Yamashina Akira (1816—1891), 1st head of the house of Yamashina-no-miya

The Yamashina-no-miya house was formed by Prince Akira, eldest son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye.

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1816 1864 1898
2 Template:Nihongo 1873 1898 1908
3 Template:Nihongo 1898 1908 1947 1987

The Yamashina-no-miya became extinct with the death of Yamashina Takehiko.

Kitashirakawa-no-miya

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The Kitashirakawa-no-miya house was formed by Prince Satonari, thirteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye.

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1844 1872 1872
2 Template:Nihongo 1847 1872 1895 brother of above
3 Template:Nihongo 1887 1895 1923
4 Template:Nihongo 1910 1923 1940
5 Template:Nihongo 1937 1940 1947 2018 Kitashirakawa Michihisa after 1947

The Kitashirakawa-no-miya became extinct with the death of Kitashirakawa Michihisa without heirs on 20 October 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Higashifushimi-no-miya / Komatsu-no-miya

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The Higashifushimi-no-miya or the Komatsu-no-miya house was formed by Prince Yoshiaki, seventh son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye.

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo
Template:Nihongo		 1846
 1867
1872		 1872
1903		 changed name in 1872
2 Template:Nihongo 1876 1903 1922 brother of Akihito
reverted name back to Higashifushimi

In 1931, Emperor Shōwa directed his brother-in-law, Prince Kuni Kunihide, to leave Imperial Family status and become Count Higashifushimi Kunihide (hakushaku under the kazoku peerage system), to prevent the Higashifushimi name from extinction. Dowager Princess Higashifushimi Kaneko became a commoner on 14 October 1947. She died in Tokyo in 1955.

Kaya-no-miya

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The Kaya-no-miya house was formed by Prince Kuninori, second son of Prince Kuni Asahiko (first Kuni-no-miya, see above)

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1867 1896 1909 Kaya-no-miya was a personal title until 1900
2 Template:Nihongo 1900 1909 1947 1978 Kaya Tsunenori after 1947
3 Template:Nihongo 1922 1978 1986 politician; died without heirs.
4 Template:Nihongo 1926 1987 2011 brother of Kuninaga; career diplomat; died without heirs.
5 Template:Nihongo 1959 2011 nephew of Harunori through his younger brother Akinori; career diplomat; with male issue.

Asaka-no-miya

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Prince Asaka Yasuhiko (1887-1981), 1st chapter of the house of Asaka-no-miya

The Asaka-no-miya house was formed by Prince Yasuhiko, eighth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko.

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1887 1906 1947 1981
X Template:Nihongo 1912 1981 1994
X Template:Nihongo 1944 1994

Higashikuni-no-miya

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The Higashikuni-no-miya house was formed by Prince Naruhiko, ninth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko.

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1887 1906 1947 1990 Prime Minister of Japan (17 August 1945 – 9 October 1945)
X Template:Nihongo 1916 1947 1969
2 Template:Nihongo 1945 1990 2019 grandson of Naruhiko, son of Morihiro
X Template:Nihongo 1973 2019 son of Nobuhiko

Prince Higashikuni Nobuhiko became simply "Higashikuni Nobuhiko" after the abolition of the Japanese aristocracy during the American occupation of Japan in 1947.

Takeda-no-miya

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The Takeda-no-miya house was formed by Prince Tsunehisa, eldest son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (second Kitashirakawa-no-miya).

Name Born Succeeded Retired Died Notes
1 Template:Nihongo 1882 1906 1919
2 Template:Nihongo 1909 1919 1947 1992
3 Template:Nihongo 1940 1992

Proposal for reinstatement

Template:Update In January 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi set up a panel consisting of 10 experts from various fields to discuss the succession law and possible ways to ensure stable succession in the imperial family. At that point, no male heir had been born to the Imperial family in 40 years, prompting concerns that there wouldn't be anyone to succeed Crown Prince Naruhito after he became emperor. The panel recommended giving eligibility to females and their descendants, that the first child, regardless of sex, be given priority in ascension, and that female family members who marry commoners be allowed to retain their imperial family member status. Itsuo Sonobe, deputy chairman of the 10-member government panel and a former Supreme Court justice, said that one of the panel's main concerns had been to find a solution that would win the people's support.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Media opinion polls showed an overwhelming majority favoring the change, but the proposed revision was met with fierce opposition from conservatives, who held that the imperial dynasty, which had survived in an unbroken line stretching for nearly 2700 years, could not be dismissed and ended by a wave of deracinated modernity and uncaring recentism. They proposed instead that the government take recourse to ancient traditions under which such situations had been handled in the past. They pointed out that various branches of the old imperial family do still exist in Japan, and that the constitutional definition of the "imperial family" which prevails today was imposed by the occupying western forces as recently as 1947. They maintained that, rather than ending the ancient imperial dynasty, it would be more sensible and less radical to end the recent, western-imposed restrictions. Template:Ill, a member of the former Takeda-no-miya collateral house (nephew of the current family head Template:Ill and son of Tsunekazu Takeda) and author of a book entitled The Untold Truth of Imperial Family Members, proposed to maintain the male line by restoring the former princely houses or by allowing imperial family members to adopt males from those families. Although Takeda has written that such men should feel a responsibility to maintain the royal house, he said he would find it daunting if asked to play that role himself.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> According to Takeda, the heads of the former court families agreed in late 2004, just before Koizumi's advisory panel started its discussions, not to speak out on the issue and some of them told him to "not get involved in political issues".<ref>Imperial Family/Uncharted terrain: Those who do not want females or their descendants to become emperor feel stymied.</ref> Opponents of the reinstatement of former collateral branches, like Liberal Democratic Party politician Yōichi Masuzoe, argued that it would favor members of families with tenuous blood links to long-ago emperors over contemporary female descendants of recent sovereigns.<ref>Royal Pregnancy Delays Resolution of Japan’s Imperial Succession Dilemma</ref>

During a series of hearings on the succession problem in early 2012, Yoshiko Sakurai and Akira Momochi, conservative members of the panel of experts, rejected proposals for female members of the imperial family to be allowed to retain their royal status after marriage and create new branches of the imperial family, and instead suggested revising the Imperial Household Law so that male descendants of former imperial families which renounced their royal status in 1947 be allowed to return to the imperial family as adoptees.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Another proposal was to reinstate four of the former imperial families,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> a solution opposed by the government on the grounds that it would not enjoy public support.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Government sources told the Yomiuri Shimbun in May 2012 that the suggestion to reinstate men from the former princely houses as imperial family members through adoption had been unexpected.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In September 2021, it was considered to amend the Imperial Household Law and allow the 85-year old Prince Hitachi to adopt a male member of the collateral branches of the imperial family.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

References

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Bibliography

  • Fujitani, T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998). Template:ISBN
  • Lebra, Sugiyama Takie. Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility. University of California Press (1995). Template:ISBN

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