Higashifushimi Kunihide
Count Higashifushimi Kunihide | |
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Born | |
Died | 1 January 2014 | (aged 103)
Other names | Kuni Kunihide Higashifushimi Jigō |
Citizenship | Japan |
Occupation | Buddhist monk |
Title | Count (until 1947) |
Spouse |
Yasuko Kamei (died 2009) |
Children | 4, including Jiko Higashifushimi |
Parent(s) | Kuni Kuniyoshi Shimazu Chikako |
Relatives | Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito (great uncle) Empress Kōjun (sister) Emperor Shōwa (brother-in-law) Emperor Emeritus Akihito (nephew) |
Count Higashifushimi Kunihide (
Life
[edit]Count Higashifushimi Kunihide was born as Prince Kuni Kunihide (
After taking a degree in history from Kyoto Imperial University, he taught as a lecturer at the university until 1952, when he took his vows as a Buddhist priest in the Zenkō-ji daikanshin in Nagano, becoming the abbot of the Tendai Buddhist Shōren'in Temple in Kyoto the following year, taking the Buddhist name Jigō (慈洽). He took a PhD in Asuka period art from Kyoto University in 1956. He was appointed chairman of the Kyoto Association of Buddhist Temples in 1985, serving until his death. As chairman, he led the opposition to a ¥50 temple admission fee imposed by the city of Kyoto, denouncing it as "contrary to the principle of separation of church and state and freedom of religion." The fee was subsequently repealed.[3]
In 2004, he passed the position of abbot of the Shōren'in to his second son, Jiko Higashifushimi, becoming its emeritus abbot. His wife, Yasuko, died on 29 September 2009, aged 91.[5] He had been bedridden since 2006, due to orthostatic hypotension and he died on 1 January 2014, aged 103.[6][7] As of 4 July 2012, when he surpassed Naruhiko, by reaching the age of 102 years and 49 days, he remains the longest-lived member, of the Imperial House of Japan.[8]
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Genealogy of the House of Fushimi-no-miya In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ^ Coke, Hope (21 April 2021). "The top 10 longest-living royals in history". Tatler. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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