- Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari
of
Japan , was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari was the thirteenth son of
Prince Fushimi Kuniye . In 1866, he entered theBuddhist priesthood under the title of Shogoin-no-miya.Following the
Meiji Restoration ,Emperor Meiji asked him to return to secular status in 1873, and authorized him to start a new princely house, Kitashirakawa-no-miya, which was named after the village where he lived.However, Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari, died within the same year, and the Kitashirakawa-no-miya title passed to his elder half-brother, Yoshihisa-ō.
References
* Jansen, Marius B. "The Making of Modern Japan." Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
* Keane, Donald. "Emperor Of Japan: Meiji And His World, 1852-1912". Columbia University Press (2005). ISBN 0231123418
* Lebra, Sugiyama Takie. "Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility". University of California Press (1995). ISBN 0520076028
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