Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
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| HIH Prince Fushimi Sadanaru | |
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| 9 June 1858 – 4 February 1923 | |
 His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi Sadanaru in Meiji period postcard |
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| Place of birth | Kyoto, Japan |
| Place of death | Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Years of service | 1875–1923 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Commands | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Battles/wars | First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
| Awards | Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum Order of the Golden Kite (2nd Class). |
| Other work | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan |
His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi Sadanaru (伏見宮貞愛親王 Fushimi-no-miya Sadanaru-Shinnō ?) of Japan (9 June 1858 – 4 February 1923) was the 22nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (branch of the Imperial Family), and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
He was born in Kyoto as the fourteenth son of Prince Fushimi Kuniye (1802-1875) and was thus the half brother of Prince Yamashina Akira, Prince Kuni Asahiko, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, and Prince Kan'in Kotohito. In 1872, he married Princess Arisugawa Toshiko (1852-1930), the daughter of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito.
A career army officer, Prince Sadanaru studied military tactics at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-CyrinFrance and later in Germany in the 1870s. Upon his return to Japan, he advocated the establishment of a Japanese version of an army General Staff based on the Prussian model. He succeeded his father as the head of the Fushimi-no-miya family in 1875.
General Prince Fushimi Sadanaru served as a field commander in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), commanding the Japanese 10th Regiment.
He represented Emperor Meiji at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on 26 May 1896. In June 1904, he was promoted to full general, and continued to serve as a field commander in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Emperor Meiji promoted him to field marshal and a member of the Supreme War Council in 1905.
Prince Fushimi was a close advisor to then-Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho). He served as Naidaijin (Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan) from 1912 to 1915, thus becoming the only imperial prince to have served in that office.
Prince Fushimi represented Japan at the state funeral of Great Britain's King Edward VII 20 May 1910. He met with the new King George V at Buckingham Palace.
The Prince died of influenza on 5 February 1923. Dowager Princess Fushimi (Toshiko) died on 3 January 1930. He was succeeded by his son, Fleet Admiral Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu.
His decorations include the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, Order of the Golden Kite (2nd Class).
[edit] References
- Dupuy, Trevor N. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-7858-0437-4
- Jansen, Marius B. and Gilbert Rozman, eds. Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
- Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
