Prince

Prince

Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...

 , son of Motosaki

Konoe Motosaki

, son of Tsunehiro, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period . He did not hold regent positions kampaku and sessho. His consort was a daughter of Tokugawa Munechika, ninth head of Owari Domain; with her he had a son Konoe Tadahiro and a daughter who later became a consort of Tokugawa...

, was a kugyō

Kugyo

is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The kugyō was broadly divided into two groups: the , comprising the Chancellor of the Realm, the Minister of the Left, and the Minister of the Right; and the , comprising the...

or Japanese court noble of the late Edo period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

 (1603–1868). He held a regent position kampaku

Sessho and Kampaku

In Japan, was a title given to a regent who was named to assist either a child emperor before his coming of age, or an empress. The was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the emperor, but was the title of both first secretary and regent who assists an adult emperor. During the Heian era,...

 from 1862 to 1863. His consort was an adopted daughter of Shimazu Narioki

Shimazu Narioki

was a Japanese feudal lord of the Edo period, the 27th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain 1809-1851. He was the father of Shimazu Nariakira and Shimazu Hisamitsu....

, tenth head of Satsuma Domain. With her he had sons Tadafusa

Konoe Tadafusa

, son of regent Tadahiro, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the late Edo period . He did not hold any regent position kampaku or sesshō. His consort was an adopted daughter of Shimazu Nariakira, eleventh head of Satsuma Domain. The couple adopted a son of Konoe Tadahiro as their son Atsumaro....

 and Atsumaro

Konoe Atsumaro

Prince was a Japanese politician and journalist of the Meiji era. He served as the 3rd President of the House of Peers and 7th President of the Gakushūin Peer's School in Meiji period Japan...

 who was later adopted by Tadafusa as his son. Following the Meiji Restoration, he was granted the title of prince.