Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari
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His Imperial Highness Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari (北白川宮智成親王 Kitashirakawa-no-miya Kasunari -shinnō?, 22 July 1850 - 10 February 1872) of Japan, was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.
His Imperial Highness Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari was the thirteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye. In 1866, he entered the Buddhist 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.
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- Lebra, Sugiyama Takie. Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility. University of California Press (1995). ISBN: 0520076028
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