Prince Nashimoto Morimasa

Morimasa
Prince Nashimoto
Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, 1935
Prince Nashimoto
Reign	2 December 1885 – 14 October 1947
Head of Nashimoto-no-miya
Reign	2 December 1885 – 2 January 1951
Born	(1874-03-09)9 March 1874 Kyoto, Japan
Died	2 January 1951(1951-01-02) (aged 76) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Spouse	Itsuko Nabeshima (m. 1897)
Issue	Yi Bangja (Ri Masako), Crown Princess of Korea Hirohashi Noriko
Father	Prince Kuni Asahiko
Mother	Harada Mitsue
Military career
Allegiance	Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1899-1944
Rank	field marshal
Commands	1st Brigade 16th Division
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War World War II
Awards	Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum Order of the Rising Sun Order of the Golden Kite Order of St. Stephen

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.