Princess Masako Takeda

{{Short description|Japanese princess}} {{More citations needed|date= September 2017}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Masako | title = Princess Takeda | image = HIH Princess Takeda Masako 2.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Masako, Princess Tsune<br>({{lang|ja|常宮昌子内親王}}) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|9|30|df= y}} | birth_place = Tokyo Prefecture, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|3|8|1888|9|30|df= y}} | death_place = Tokyo Prefecture, Japan | occupation= | spouse = {{marriage |Prince Tsunehisa Takeda|30 April 1908|23 April 1919|reason= died}} | issue = Prince Tsuneyoshi of Takeda<br>Princess Ayako of Takeda | full name = {{nihongo|Masako|昌子}} | house = Imperial House of Japan | father = Emperor Meiji | mother = Sono Sachiko }}

{{nihongo|'''Masako, Princess Takeda'''|恒久王妃昌子内親王|Tsunehisa Ōhi Masako naishinnō}}, born {{nihongo|'''Masako, Princess Tsune'''|常宮昌子内親王|Tsune-no-miya Masako Naishinnō|extra= 30 September 1888 – 8 March 1940}}, was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the third child and second daughter of Sono Sachiko, the Emperor's fifth concubine.

==Biography== [[File:Princess Masako and Fusako.jpg|thumb|left|Princess Masako (right) and Princess Fusako (left). Princess Masako is wearing the uniform for women of the Navy.]] Masako was born in Tokyo Prefecture, the daughter of Emperor Meiji and Lady Sachiko. She held the childhood appellation "Tsune no miya" (Princess Tsune).

Her future husband, Prince Tsunehisa Takeda, was the eldest son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and thus the brother of Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa. Emperor Meiji authorized Prince Tsunehisa to start a new princely house in March 1906, largely to provide a household with suitable status for his sixth daughter Princess Tsune. Prince Takeda married Princess Masako on 30 April 1908, by whom he had a son and a daughter:

# {{nihongo|Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda|竹田宮恒徳王|Takeda-no-miya Tsuneyoshi Ō|extra=4 March 1909 – 11 May 1992}} # {{nihongo|Princess Ayako Takeda|禮子女王|Ayako Joō|extra=4 July 1913 – 3 September 2003}}, married Count Sano Tsunemitsu.

She died on 8 March 1940, aged 51.

==Honours== * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Precious Crown

==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center|ref=<ref name=descent>{{cite web|url=https://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E5%A4%A9%E7%9A%87%E5%AE%B6|title=Genealogy|website=Reichsarchiv|access-date=6 September 2017}} {{in lang|ja}}</ref> |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Masako, Princess Takeda''' |2= 2. Emperor Meiji (1852–1912) |3= 3. Lady Sono Sachiko (1867–1947) |4= 4. Emperor Kōmei (1831–1867) |5= 5. Lady Nakayama Yoshiko (1836–1907) |6= 6. Count Sono Motosachi (1833–1905) |7= 7. Koide |8= 8. Emperor Ninkō (1800–1846) |9= 9. Lady Ōgimachi Naoko (1803–1856) |10= 10. Marquess Nakayama Tadayasu (1809–1888) |11= 11. Matsura Aiko (1818–1906) |12= 12. Sono Motoshige (1793–1840) |13= 13. Matsura Kiko |14= 14. Koide Fusaoki, 8th Lord of Sonobe (1810–1862) |15= 15. Matsudaira Minematsu |16= 16. Emperor Kōkaku (1771–1840) |17= 17. Lady Kanshuuji Tadako (1780–1843) |18= 18. Ōgimachi Sanemitsu (1777–1817) |19= 19. Lady Yotsuji Chieko |20= 20. Nakayama Tadayori (1778–1825) |21= 21. Ōgimachisanjō Tsunako (d. 1858) |22= 22. Matsura Seizan, 9th Lord of Hirado (1760–1841) |23= 23. Mori |24= 24. Nakayama Tadaosa (1756–1809) |25= 25. Sanjō Narakimi |26= 26. Matsura Seizan, 9th Lord of Hirado (1760–1841) |27= 27. Mori |28= 28. Koide Fusatake, 7th Lord of Sonobe (1775–1821) |29= 29. Wakebe |30= 30. Matsudaira Yasutō, 8th Lord of Hamada (1779–1841) |31= 31. Matsudaira (d. 1805) }}

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