Prince Yamashina Akira

Prince Yamashina Akira

nihongo|Prince Yamashina Akira|山階宮 晃親王|Yamashina-no-miya Akira shinnō (22 October 1816 - 29 October 1891), was the founder of a collateral line of the Japanese imperial family.

Early life

Prince Akira was born in Kyoto, the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye (24 October 1802 - 5 August 1875), the twentieth head of the Fushimi-no-miya, the oldest of the four branches of the imperial dynasty allowed to provide a successor to the Chrysanthemum throne should the main imperial house fail to produce an heir.

He was thus a half-brother of Prince Kuni Asahiko, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito.

Buddhist priest

From an early age, Prince Akira was groomed to pursue a career as a Buddhist priest, the traditional career path for non-heir sons in the "sesshu shinnoke" during the Edo period. In 1818, Emperor Kōkaku (1779-1817;, died in 1840) adopted Prince Akira as a potential heir.

He entered the priesthood under the title Saihan Hoshinnō and later became prince-abbot of Kaju-ji in Yamashina, outside of Kyoto. In 1842, he angered the Tokugawa bakufu, which stripped him of his post and confined him to the temple of To-ji. In 1864, the "bakufu" reinstated him. Emperor Kōmei (1840-1867), returned him to secular status, adopted him and granted him the title Yamashina-no-miya in 1858.

Marriage and family

Prince Yamashina married Princess Sumiko (1838-1881), a daughter of Emperor Ninko and the half-sister of Emperor Kōmei. Sumiko succeeded to the head of the Katsura-no-miya house in her own right upon the death of the tenth head. The couple had no children, but the Prince had a son by Nakajo Chieko, a concubine.

# Prince Yamashina Kikumaro (3 July 18732 May 1902)

References and further reading

# Keene, Donald. "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-231-12340-X
# Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. "Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) ISBN 0-520-07602-8
# Papinot Edmond. "Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan" (New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1948)


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