Sayako Kuroda

Princess Nori at the 2005 Expo

Sayako Kuroda ( Japanese 黒 田 清 子 , Kuroda Sayako ; born April 18, 1969 ) is the third child and the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan. On November 15, 2005, she married Yoshiki Kuroda , which she gave up her imperial title and, as required by statutory provisions from 1947, had to leave the Japanese imperial family .

Previously, according to the imperial tradition, she was addressed as Princess Nori ( 紀 宮 , Nori-no-miya ), usually as Her Imperial Highness Princess Sayako (of Japan) ( 紀 宮 清 子 内 親王 , Nori-no-miya Sayako- naishinnō ).

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Princess Nori studied at the Faculty of Japanese Language and Literature in the Literature Faculty of Gakushūin University and graduated in 1992. In the same year she was accepted as a research assistant at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology .

On December 30, 2004, the imperial court office announced that Princess Nori had become engaged to Kuroda Yoshiki, a 40-year-old city ​​planner who had previously worked for the Tokyo metropolitan government and is considered a close friend of Prince Akishino . By her marriage, which took place on November 15, 2005 in a Tokyo hotel, Princess Nori left the imperial family by taking the surname of her husband, who thereby became the first non-aristocrat to ever marry an imperial Japanese princess.

Kuroda gave up her job as an ornithologist to focus on her family and possible motherhood. Although she is no longer entitled to imperial alimony, it is reported that she received a dowry equivalent to around 1.2 million US dollars.

In May 2012, she became extraordinary high priestess (( 祭主 , rinji saishu ) of the important Ise Shrine to support her 81-year-old aunt Atsuko Ikeda . She became the Ordinary High Priestess ( saishu ) of the shrine in June 2017 after Atsuko Ikeda retired.

Web links

• BBC report on the Marriage (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emperor's daughter becomes supreme priestess at Ise Jingu Shrine. (No longer available online.) In: The Mainichi. June 21, 2017, archived from the original on June 21, 2017 ; accessed on June 22, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.