Prince Nashimoto Morimasa

Morimasa
Prince Nashimoto
Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, 1935
Prince Nashimoto
Reign2 December 1885 – 14 October 1947
Head of Nashimoto-no-miya
Reign2 December 1885 – 2 January 1951
Born(1874-03-09)9 March 1874
Kyoto, Japan
Died2 January 1951(1951-01-02) (aged 76)
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
SpouseItsuko Nabeshima (m. 1897)
IssueYi Bangja (Ri Masako), Crown Princess of Korea
Hirohashi Noriko
FatherPrince Kuni Asahiko
MotherHarada Mitsue
Military career
Allegiance Japan
Service / branch Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service1899-1944
Rankfield marshal
Commands1st Brigade
16th Division
Battles / warsRusso-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Awards
Nashimoto family in 1918

Morimasa, Prince Nashimoto (梨本宮守正王, Nashimoto no miya Morimasa ō, 9 March 1874 – 2 January 1951) was a member of the Japanese Imperial Family and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. An uncle-in-law of Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa), an uncle of his consort, Empress Kōjun, and the father-in-law of Crown Prince Euimin of Korea, Prince Nashimoto was the only member of the Imperial Family arrested for war crimes during the Allied occupation of Japan following defeat in the Second World War.