Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu

Nobuhito Prince Takamatsu (Japanese高 松 宫 宣仁 亲王Takamatsu -no- miya Nobuhito - shinnō, * January 3, 1905; † 3 February 1987) was the third son of Emperor Taishō ( Yoshihito ) and Empress Teimei and the younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa ( Hirohito ).

He was head of the Prince House ( shinnōke ) Takamatsu -no- miya (formerly Arisugawa -no- miya ), one of the four imperial branch families were entitled to inherit the Chrysanthemum Throne, in the case of a missing successor of the main house. Until the end of the First World War served from the mid- 1920s, Prince Takamatsu, the Imperial Japanese Navy. He left with the rank of captain lieutenant. After the war, the Prince of volunteers from different organizations for international cultural exchange in the arts, sports and medicine was. Because of his work as a member of the Imperial household he stays in Japan's memory.