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Shigeko Higashikuni

1925 - 1961

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Shigeko Higashikuni (東久邇 成子, Higashikuni Shigeko, 6 December 1925 – 23 July 1961), born Shigeko, Princess Teru (照宮成子内親王, Teru-no-miya Shigeko Naishinnō), was the wife of Prince Morihiro Higashikuni (grandson of Emperor Meiji) and eldest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeko Higashikuni has received more than 492,121 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Shigeko Higashikuni is the 523rd most popular companion (up from 549th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Japan (up from 671st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Companion.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Shigeko Higashikuni ranks 523 out of 784Before her are Iput, Audofleda, Princess Januária of Brazil, Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Lilian, Princess of Réthy, and Beatrice of Castile. After her are Queen Rania of Jordan, Cleopatra of Pontus, Aquilia Severa, Adeliza of Louvain, William V, Marquess of Montferrat, and Świętosława of Poland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Shigeko Higashikuni ranks 131Before her are Alberto Grimaldi, Brian Aldiss, Manos Hatzidakis, Efim Geller, Luis Molowny, and Toshio Iwatani. After her are Louison Bobet, John Guillermin, Henning Larsen, Flannery O'Connor, Maurice Pialat, and Pavel Belyayev. Among people deceased in 1961, Shigeko Higashikuni ranks 47Before her are Fyodor Kuznetsov, Bulbul, Herbert Pitman, Platt Adams, Clark Ashton Smith, and Max Simon. After her are Valentin Bondarenko, Milan Stojadinović, Anna May Wong, Henri Breuil, Robert Garrett, and Maya Deren.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeko Higashikuni ranks 608 out of 6,245Before her are Chōjun Miyagi (1888), Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Hajime Moriyasu (1968), and Yukio Shimomura (1932). After her are Shizo Kanakuri (1891), Isao Tomita (1932), Misao Tamai (1903), Saburo Shinosaki (null), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Hōjō Sōun (1432).

Among COMPANIONS In Japan

Among companions born in Japan, Shigeko Higashikuni ranks 4Before her are Empress Kōjun (1903), Empress Shōken (1849), and Empress Teimei (1884). After her are Olivia Lufkin (1979).