Prince Kitashirakawa Kasunari
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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.
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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