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, was a member of a collateral branch of the

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and a career officer in the

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who was killed in the line of duty in

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Biography

Born as , the 4th son of

Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941. Early life Prince Hiroyasu was born in Tokyo as Prince Narukata, the eldest son of Prince F ...

, he was the younger brother of

Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi was the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, and heir-apparent due to inherit the position of 24th head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (collateral branch of the Imperial Family of Japan), and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. ...

Prince Kachō Hirotada of Japan, was a member of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. Biography Prince Hirotada was the second son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu. His mother was Tokugawa Tsuneko, the 9th daughter of the last Tokugawa Shōgun, Tokugawa Yo ...

and Marquis

Kachō Hironobu , was a descendant of the Fushimi-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family. Biography Born as Prince Fushimi Hironobu, the third son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu with Tokugawa Tsuneko (1882–1939), he was also the younger bro ...

. In October 1932, he served as a member of the House of Peers in the

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. On 1 April 1936, by order of Emperor

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, he was allowed to establish his own household after renouncing his imperial title, and was created a count (''hakushaku'') under the ''

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'' peerage system. The same year, he married Toyoko Yanagisawa (29 October 1917 – 14 November 1939), younger daughter of Count Yanagisawa Yasutsugu, with whom he had three daughters. After the death of his wife, he remarried in 1942 to Sadako Kuroda (born 1 June 1915), only daughter of Baron Kuroda Nagatoshi, with whom he had another daughter. A graduate of the 62nd class of the

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, Fushimi Hirohide opted to pursue a military career, and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. During World War II, on 21 August 1943 while serving with the IJN 3rd Combined Communications Brigade, he was killed in action when his aircraft was shot down over the

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in the

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. His grave is located at

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Descendants

# (by Toyoko) Fushimi Mōtoko, born 11 August 1937; married Dōmoto Taizō. # (by Toyoko) Fushimi Kazuko, born 1 December 1938; entered holy orders and assumed the name Seikan, 1952; head of Tokujōmyōin, Kyoto; styled Abbess Fushimi Seikan. # (by Toyoko) Fushimi Junko; died in infancy. # (by Sadako) Fushimi Yoshiko, born 7 June 1943; married Ino Kazou (born 1 January 1941), who assumed the surname of Fushimi upon marriage, eldest son of Ino Noburo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fushimi, Hirohide 1912 births 1943 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Indonesia Kazoku Fushimi-no-miya Imperial Japanese Navy officers Imperial Japanese Navy personnel killed in World War II Members of the House of Peers (Japan) Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1943 Burials at Aoyama Cemetery