Count Fushimi Hirohide
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, was a member of a collateral branch
Oke
The , were branches of the Japanese Imperial Family created from branches of the Fushimi-no-miya house. All but one of the ōke were formed by the descendants of Prince Fushimi Kuniye. The ōke were stripped of their membership in the Imperial Family by the American Occupation Authorities in...

 of the Japanese imperial family.

Biography

Born as Prince Fushimi Hirohide, the younger son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
was a scion of the Japanese imperial family and was a career naval officer who served as chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1932 to 1941.-Early life:...

, he was also the younger brother of Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
align=right| was the eldest son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, heir-apparent of the 25nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke , and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.- Early life :...

, Prince Kachō Hirotada
Prince Kacho Hirotada
align=right| of Japan, was a member of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.-Biography:Prince Hirotada was the second son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu. His mother was Tokugawa Tsuneko, the 9th daughter of the last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu...

 and Marquis Kachō Hironobu
Kacho Hironobu
, was a descendent of the Fushimi-no-miya collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.-Biography:Born as Prince Fushimi Hironobu, the third son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, he was also the younger brother of Prince Kachō Hirotada. As Prince Hirotada died without heirs, the Kachō-no-miya...

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Prince Hirohide (Hirohide ō), on active duty in the Southwest Pacific; renounced imperial title and cr. Count Fushimi, 4 April 1931;
m. (1) 1936 Tomiko (b. 29 October 1917, d. 14 November 1939), younger daughter of Count Yaagisawa Yasutsugu by his wife Hisako, sixth daughter of Marquis Nabeshima Naohiro (Hisako was thus a sister of Princess Nashimoto Itsuko), and had issue; (2) 1942 Sadako (b. 1 June 1915), only daughter of Baron Kuroda Nagatoshi, by his wife Hisako, daughter of Viscount Mori Takanori, and had further issue:
  1. ; m. Dōmoto Taizō
  2. ; head of Tokujōmyōin, Kyoto; styled Abbess Fushimi Seikan.
  3. ; m. Ino Kazou (b. 1 January 1941), who assumed the surname of Fushimi upon marriage, eldest son of Ino Noburo.
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