Hiro Saga

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Lady Hiro Saga (嵯峨浩, Saga Hiro^?), (April 16, 1914 - June 20, 1987), was the daughter of Marquis Saga and a relative of Japanese Emperor Hirohito. She was married in 1938 to Prince Pujie, brother of the Emperor Puyi (China 1908-1912 and Manchukuo 1934-1945). After her marriage to Pujie, she was known as, and identified herself as, Aisin-Gioro Hiro (愛新覺羅·浩), or Aisin-Gioro Hao in Chinese.

The arranged marriage between the Japanese Hiro Saga and the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo's brother, was most likely aimed at either fortifying relations between the two nations or of introducing Japanese blood into the Manchurian Imperial family. However, she only bore Pujie two daughters, Princess Huisheng and Princess Yunsheng.

After the fall of Manchukuo in 1945, Hiro Saga sought refuge in various places in China before returning to Japan. In 1961, after the release of her husband Pujie from prison, the couple were re-united, and lived in Beijing from 1961.

Hiro Saga died in 1987 and her husband in 1994.

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Princess Huisheng 慧生 (1939-1957) - H. H. Princess (Chün Chu Kung Chu) Huisheng, was born at Hsingking on February 1938 and educated privately and then studied at Tokyo Women's University. She was killed (murdered) at Izu Island, near Tokyo on 10th December 1957. However, she was widely reported to have committed a lovers' suicide at the age of 19 with a boy.

Princess Yunsheng 嫮生 (1941- ) - H.H. Princess (Chün Chu Kung Chu) Yunsheng was educated privately and then studied at Tokyo Women's University. She later married Kosei Fukunaga in Tokyo, who was a Japanese aristocrat and employed in the motor car industry. She has five children.

While being the closest male relative of Puyi, Pujie was not in the line of succession for the Qing throne since Puyi appointed his cousin Prince Yuyan as his heir in 1950.