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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako tries out a professional camera at a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako tries out a professional camera at a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako visits a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako visits a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako visits a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako visits a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako tries out a professional camera at a news photo exhibition in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2025, marking the start the following day of a ceramics exhibition at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Over 200 ceramic dogs donated by the princess are on display at the exhibition that runs through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japan Princess Hisako visits ceramic museum

Japanese Princess Hisako looks at ceramic dogs she donated to the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Seto in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 12, 2025. The princess donated over 200 ceramic dogs for the exhibition that will run from Dec. 13 through July 26, 2026.

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Japanese imperial garden party

Japanese Princess Hisako chats with guests at the autumn imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese imperial garden party

Japanese Princess Hisako (L) and her daughter, Princess Tsuguko, attend the autumn imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese imperial garden party

Japanese Princess Hisako (L) and her daughter, Princess Tsuguko, attend the autumn imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese imperial garden party

Japanese Princess Hisako (C) attends the autumn imperial garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Condition of Japanese Princess Yuriko deteriorates

Japanese Princess Hisako leaves St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2024, after visiting her 101-year-old mother-in-law Princess Yuriko, whose condition has been deteriorating. The oldest member of the imperial family was hospitalized in March due to a mild stroke and aspiration pneumonitis.

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Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks during a medical symposium in Tokyo on July 14, 2024.

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Princess Hisako

Japanese Princess Hisako speaks during a medical symposium in Tokyo on July 14, 2024.

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10th anniv. of Prince Katsura's passing

(From front) Japanese Princess Akiko and Princess Yoko visit the Toshimagaoka cemetery in Tokyo on June 8, 2024, the 10th anniversary of the passing of their uncle Prince Katsura. Princess Hisako (2nd from L) and her daughter Princess Tsuguko can also be seen. (Pool photo)

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New Photos Released of Jordan's Royal Wedding - Amman

Japan's Princess Hisako of Takamado poses as she attends Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II’s Royal Wedding Banquet at Al Husseinieh Palace in Amman, Jordan, on June 1st, 2023. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Jordan's Royal Wedding - Amman

Princess Hisako of Takamado and her oldest daughter, Princess Tsuguko attend Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II’s Royal Wedding at Zahran Palace in Amman, Jordan, on June 1st, 2023. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Princess Ayako marries commoner Moriya

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 29 Kyodo - Princess Ayako (C), the youngest daughter of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, bows to her mother Princess Hisako (R) in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2018, as she leaves for her wedding with commoner Kei Moriya at Meiji Shrine. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko arrives in Izumo for wedding ceremony

IZUMO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R) and her mother Princess Hisako, widow of Prince Takamado, arrive at the Izumo airport, western Japan, on Oct. 4, 2014. The wedding ceremony of Princess Noriko and Kunimaro Senge will take place the next day at Izumo-taisha, a grand shrine where the Senge family has been in charge of rituals for generations.

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Prince Takamado's wife, daughter visit Ise Grand Shrine

ISE, Japan - Princess Hisako (L), wife of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, and their second daughter Princess Noriko visit the Outer Shrine at Ise Grad Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 3, 2014. Princess Noriko is due to marry senior priest Takamaro Senge of another shrine on Oct. 5.

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91st anniversary of Great Kanto Earthquake

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Hisako, the widow of Prince Takamado, attends a memorial service in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2014, for the victims of the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit the capital and surrounding areas in 1923, killing over 100,000 people.

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Exhibit of Princess Hisako's bird photos begins in Izumo

MATSUE, Japan - Princess Hisako of Japan (R), a bird watching enthusiast, speaks to visitors at an exhibition of her bird photos that opens in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014.

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Princess Hisako explains sweet boxes at photo exhibit

MATSUE, Japan - Princess Hisako of Japan (L) gives her account for sweet boxes given to guests on special occasion at an exhibition of her bird photos that opens in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014. Her daughter Princess Noriko is engaged to Kunimaro Senge, a senior priest of Izumo-taisha, Japan's major shrine in the western Japanese city.

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo)

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Visitors at Izumo-taisha in Shimane Pref.

MATSUE, Japan - People visit Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture on May 27, 2014. The Imperial Household Agency announced the same day Princess Noriko, second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, has become engaged to Kunimaro Senge, chief priest's eldest son of the shrine.

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Extra in Izumo on Princess Noriko's engagement

MATSUE, Japan - A souvenir shop staffer posts an extra edition of newspaper reporting the engagement between Princess Noriko, second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, and Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Izuomo, Shimane Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. The engagement will become formal after the traditional rite "Nosai no gi."

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Princess Noriko engaged to Izumo shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, is engaged to marry Kunimaro Senge (L), the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, the Imperial Household Agency said May 27, 2014.

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko, the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Kunimaro Senge, the 40-year-old eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, holds a press conference with his fiancee, Princess Noriko, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Princess Noriko is the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, and Senge is a priest at the Izumo grand shrine. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Noriko (R), the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, holds a press conference with her fiance, Kunimaro Senge, at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo on May 27, 2014, after the agency announced their engagement earlier that day. Senge, 40, is the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, and is himself a priest at the shrine. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Noriko engaged to shrine priest

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 11, 2013, shows priest Kunimaro Senge (L) and other priests during a rite at Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture. Princess Noriko, the 25-year-old second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, has engaged to Senge, 40, the Imperial Household Agency said May 27, 2014.

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Princess Noriko engaged

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Princess Noriko, second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, at a spring garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 17, 2014. Princess Noriko has become engaged to Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo-taisha, or Izumo grand shrine, in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, the Imperial Household Agency said May 27.

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Japan princess back home

NARITA, Japan - Japan's Princess Hisako arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2013, as she returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she took part in the capital's presentation on its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo was selected the host city, beating rival candidates Istanbul and Madrid.

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Japan princess back home

NARITA, Japan - Japan's Princess Hisako arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2013, as she returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she took part in the capital's presentation on its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo was selected the host city, beating rival candidates Istanbul and Madrid.

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Tokyo wins 2020 Olympic bid

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Princess Hisako, the widow of Prince Takamado, speaks during a presentation for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics at the International Olympic Committee's general session in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, 2013. Tokyo was chosen as the host city later by the committee.

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Tokyo Olympic bid

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Japan's Princess Hisako (C) enters Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 6, 2013, to attend the opening ceremony of an International Olympic Committee general meeting. A general meeting of the International Olympic Committee will pick the following day the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics from candidates Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Hisako arrives in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Princess Hisako, the widow of Prince Takamado, arrives in Buenos Aires on Sept. 4, 2013. The princess will attend a general meeting of the International Olympic Committee in the Argentine capital on Sept. 7 to give a speech thanking the world for its support after the massive quake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.

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Princess Hisako arrives in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Princess Hisako, the widow of Prince Takamado, arrives in Buenos Aires on Sept. 4, 2013. The princess will attend a general meeting of the International Olympic Committee in the Argentine capital on Sept. 7 to give a speech thanking the world for its support after the massive quake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.

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Princess Hisako leaves for Buenos Aires

NARITA, Japan - Princess Hisako, widow of Prince Takamado, arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2013, to leave for Buenos Aires. The princess will attend a general meeting of the International Olympic Committee in the Argentine capital on Sept. 7 to make a speech thanking the world for supporting northeastern Japan after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Princess Hisako leaves for Buenos Aires

NARITA, Japan - Princess Hisako, widow of Prince Takamado, arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2013, to leave for Buenos Aires. The princess will attend a general meeting of the International Olympic Committee in the Argentine capital on Sept. 7 to make a speech thanking the world for supporting northeastern Japan after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.