Higashifushimi Kunihide, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Titular head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an extinct branch of the Imperial House of Japan, and a Buddhist monk
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Higashifushimi Kunihide
- Count Higashifushimi Kunihide (??? ??, 16 May 1910 – 1 January 2014) was the titular head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an extinct branch of the Imperial House of Japan, and a Buddhist monk.
- He was the youngest brother of Empress Kojun and was the maternal uncle of The Heisei Emperor.
- If he had kept his imperial status, at the time of his death he would have been the oldest-ever member of the Japanese imperial family.
- His Dharma name was Jigo (??).
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