Japanese Imperial families in Kyoto Imperial Palace

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The were branches of the Japanese imperial family (皇族 ''Kōka'') created from branches of the

Fushimi-no-miya The is the oldest of the four shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the order of succession. The Fushimi-no-miya was founded by Prince Yoshihito, the son of the Northe ...

house, the last surviving ''

Shinnōke was the collective name for the four cadet branches of the Imperial House of Japan, which were until 1947 entitled to provide a successor to the Chrysanthemum Throne if the main line failed to produce an heir. The heads of these royal house ...

'' cadet branch. All but two (the

Kan'in-no-miya The was the youngest of the four shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out. It was founded by Prince Naohito, the son of Empero ...

and Nashimoto-no-miya) of these ''ōke'' (王家 "Royal Houses") were founded by the descendants of

Prince Fushimi Kuniie was Japanese royalty. He was the 20th/23rd prince head of the House of Fushimi and the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Sadayuki (1776–1841) and his concubine Seiko, which made him the 11th cousin of Emperor Sakuramachi. Despite being merely a d ...

, even if later those two were also descendants of Prince Kuniee genetically as his descendants were adopted into those families. The ''ōke'' were stripped of their membership in the

imperial family A royal family is the immediate family of monarch, monarchs and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or emperor, empress, and the term papal family describes the family of ...

by the American Occupation Authorities in October 1947, as part of the abolition of 11 collateral branches (imperial houses) with 51 members. After that point, only the immediate family of

Emperor Shōwa , posthumously honored as , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigning emperor as well as one of the world's longest-rei ...

and those of his three brothers retained membership in the imperial family. However, unofficial heads of these collateral families still exist for most and are listed herein. In recent years, as a solution to the Japanese succession controversy, conservatives have proposed to reinstate several of the former imperial branches or else to allow the imperial family to adopt male members of the former imperial princely houses.

List of ''ōke''

The member houses until 1947 were, in order of founding: * Fushimi (伏見) * Kan'in (閑院) - extinct in 1988 * Yamashina (山階) - extinct in 1987 * Kitashirakawa (北白川) - extinct in 2018 * Nashimoto (梨本) - extinct in 1951 * Kuni (久邇) * Kaya (賀陽) * Higashifushimi or Komatsu (東伏見 / 小松) - extinct in 1922 * Asaka (朝香) * Higashikuni (東久邇) *

Takeda is a Japanese name, Japanese family name.1990 Census Name Files