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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~October~~March ~~2012~~2022}} {{Eastern name order\|Kitashirakawa Nagahisa}} {{Infobox ~~royalty~~officeholder \|name=Nagahisa, Prince Kitashirakawa▼ \|~~image~~name=~~HIH~~Nagahisa Kitashirakawa ~~Nagahisa.jpg~~ ▲\|~~name~~image=~~Nagahisa,~~ Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa.jpg \|caption=Japanese Imperial Army Captain Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa \|~~reign~~term_start=1 April 1923 ~~– 4 September 1940~~ \|term_end=4 September 1940 \|predecessor=[[Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa\|Naruhisa Kitashirakawa]] \|successor=[[Prince Kitashirakawa Michihisa\|Michihisa Kitashirakawa]] \|spouse=Sachiko Tokugawa ([[:ja:北白川祥子\|德川祥子]]) \|~~succession~~office=[[Kitashirakawa-no-miya\|Prince Kitashirakawa]] \|birth_date={{birth date\|1910\|2\|19\|df=y}} \|death_date={{death date and age\|1940\|9\|4\|1910\|2\|19\|df=y}} \|birth_place=[[Tokyo]], [[Empire of Japan\|Japan]] ~~\|father=[[Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa]] [[:ja:北白川宮成久王\|北白川宮成久王]]~~ \|death_place=[[Zhangjiakou]], [[Mengjiang\|Mengukuo]] \|mother=[[Fusako Kitashirakawa\|Fusako, Princess Kane]]<br>[[:ja:成久王妃房子内親王\|周宮房子内親王]]▼ \|~~issue~~father=~~Michihisa~~[[Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa]] ([[:ja:北白川道宮成久王\|北白川道宮成久~~]]<br>Hatsuko Shimazu [[:ja:肇子女~~王~~\|島津肇子~~]]) ▲\|mother=[[Fusako Kitashirakawa\|Fusako, Princess Kane]]<br>([[:ja:成久王妃房子内親王\|周宮房子内親王]]) \|children=Michihisa Kitashirakawa ([[:ja:北白川道久\|北白川道久]])<br>Hatsuko Shimazu ([[:ja:肇子女王\|島津肇子]]) \| module = {{Infobox military person \| embed=yes \|nickname= \|allegiance= {{flag\|Japan}} \|branch= {{army\|Empire of Japan}} \|serviceyears= ~~1931-1940~~1931–1940 \|rank=[[Major (rank)\|Major]] \|unit=[[North China Area Army]] \|commands= Line 28 ⟶ 32: }} [[File:Kitasirakawa-no-miya Nagahisa1935-1.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Wedding Photo, 1935]]▼ {{nihongo\|'''Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa'''\|北白川宮永久王\|Kitashirakawa-no-miya Nagahisa-ō\| extra= 19 February 1910 – 4 September 1940}} of [[Empire of Japan\|Japan]], was the 4th head of the [[Kitashirakawa-no-miya]] [[ōke\|collateral branch]] of the [[Imperial Household of Japan\|Japanese imperial family]] and a career officer in the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. Line 35 ⟶ 38: ==Marriage and family== ▲[[File:Kitasirakawa-no-miya Nagahisa1935-1.jpg\|~~right~~left\|thumb~~\|300px~~\|Wedding Photo, 1935]] [[File:Kitashirakawa-no-miya 1935 2.jpg\|left\|thumb\|Wedding Photo, 1935]] On 25 April 1935, Prince Nagahisa married '''Sachiko Tokugawa''', born {{birth date\|1916\|8\|26\|df=y}}, died {{death date and age\|2015\|1\|21\|1916\|8\|26\|df=y}}, the daughter of [[Baron]] [[Tokugawa Yoshikuni\|Yoshikuni Tokugawa]]. Prince and Princess Kitashirakawa Nagahisa had one son and one daughter: #{{nihongo\|[[Michihisa Kitashirakawa\|Prince Michihisa Kitashirakawa]]\|北白川道久\|Kitashirakawa Michihisa-ō\|extra= b.2 ~~{{birth~~May ~~date~~1937 ~~and~~- ~~age\|1937\|5\|2\|df=y}}~~20 October 2018}} #{{nihongo\|Princess Hatsuko Kitashirakawa\|肇子女王\|Hatsuko Joō\|extra= b. {{birth date and age\|1939\|11\|13\|df=y}} }}, married Duke Shimazu ==Military career== Prince Nagahisa graduated from the 43rd class of the [[Imperial Japanese Army Academy]] in 1931, and was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in [[field artillery]]. He was promoted to [[lieutenant]] in 1936 and [[Captain (land and air)\|captain]] in 1939 after his graduation from the 52nd class of the [[Army War College (Japan)\|Army Staff College]]. After the start of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], the Prince was assigned to the [[North China Area Army]]. However, on 14 September 1940, Captain Prince Kitashirakawa died in an [[airplane crash]] while on duty in [[Mengjiang]], thus becoming the first member of the Imperial Family killed in [[World War II]] . The Prince received a posthumous promotion to [[Major (rank)\|major]] and the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Chrysanthemum]]. ==Subsequent history== Prince Nagahisa's widow, Princess Sachiko became a commoner in 1947 with the abolition of the collateral branches of the Japanese imperial family during the [[American occupation of Japan]]. She became a professor at [[Ochanomizu University]], and in 1969 entered the service of the [[Imperial Household Agency]]. She served for many years as the chief of the ladies-in-waiting to [[Empress Kōjun]]. The site of the Kitashirakawa palace in Tokyo is now the [https://web.archive.org/web/20061209121818/http://www.princehotelsjapan.com/newtakanawaprincehotel/ Shin-Takanawa Prince Hotel]. ==References== * Dupuy, Trevor N. ''The [[Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography]]''. New York: ~~Harper Collins~~HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. {{ISBN\|0-7858-0437-4}} * Fujitani,T. ''Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan''. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998). {{ISBN\|0-520-21371-8}} * Lebra, Sugiyama Takie. ''Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility''. University of California Press (1995). {{ISBN\|0-520-07602-8}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitashirakawa Nagahisa, Prince}} Line 59 ⟶ 66: [[Category:Kitashirakawa-no-miya]] [[Category:Japanese princes]] [[Category:Japanese military personnel ofkilled ~~World~~in ~~War II~~action]] ~~[[Category:Japanese military personnel killed in World War II]]~~ [[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in China]] [[Category:Imperial Japanese Army officers]] [[Category:Military personnel from Tokyo]] [[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1940]]