Yi Bangja (Korean: 이방자 ; 4 November 1901 – 30 April 1989) was the wife of Yi Un, the last Crown Prince of Korea.
Born Princess Masako of Nashimoto (Japanese: 方子女王), she was the first daughter of Japanese imperial family member Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, the sevth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko and his wife, Princess Itsuko, a daughter of Marquis Naohiro Nabeshima. She was a first cousin of Empress Kōjun of Japan. On maternal side, she was also a first cousin of Princess Setsuko.
Princess Masako was a leading candidate to wed the crown prince of Japan, the future Emperor Hirohito. Other candidates included Princess Nagako of Kuni (who became the future Empress Kōjun), and Tokiko Ichijō, a daughter of Prince Ichijō Saneteru. The possibility of infertility and the feeble political influce of her family were among the reasons she was removed from the list of candidates. However, Princess Masako was selected instead to wed Crown Prince Euimin of Korea who had be held by Japanese governmt under the pretse of studying abroad in 1917. The wedding was held on 28 April 1920, at the Korean royal residce in Tokyo. Princess Masako was still a studt at the Girls' Departmt of the Gakushūin Peers' School at the time; her new title became Her Royal Highness Crown Princess of King Yi (Japanese: 李王世子妃). In addition, the title she received from birth, Princess Masako, still retained after she married.
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Despite an unfavorable fertility diagnosis prior to her marriage, she gave birth to a son, Prince Jin, on 18 August 1921. However, Prince Jin died under suspicious circumstances wh she visited Korea with her husband on 11 May 1922.
On 24 April 1926, Princess Masako received the formal title Her Royal Highness Princess Masako, Que Yi (Japanese: 李王妃方子女王) wh the Emperor Sunjong, the elder brother of Crown Prince Euimin, died.
Under the terms of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, the Korean royal title was demoted from that of Emperor to King and Crown Prince Euimin was never formally crowned as the monarch of Korea; therefore, Princess Masako would later be addressed as Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin in Korea.
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After the d of World War II, all former royal and peerage titles were abolished by the American occupation authorities; ever since, Princess Masako took the Korean name Yi Bangja. Republic of Korea Presidt Rhee Syng-man's fear of Crown Prince Euimin's popularity prevted the family's homecoming, and they lived in destitution as Korean residts in Japan. In November 1963, Yi Bangja and her family came back to Korea at the invitation of Presidt Park Chung-hee and were allowed to live in Changdeok Palace in downtown Seoul.
However, by this time, Crown Prince Euimin was already unconscious from cerebral thrombosis and was rushed to Seoul Sungmo Hospital where he remained bedridd for the rest of his life.
Thereafter, Yi Bangja devoted herself to the education of mtally and physically disabled people. She successively became the chairman of various committees including the Commemorative Committee of Crown Prince Euimin, and the Myeonghwi-won, an asylum for deaf-and-dumb persons or patits suffering from infantile paralysis and she founded the Jahye School and the Myeonghye School, which helps disabled people become socially adapted. She was adored as the mother of the handicapped in Korea and despite lingering anti-Japanese stimt in Korea she was a widely respected Japanese woman in Korea.
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Some members of the Nashimoto family, her relatives, visited Seoul in October 2008 to pay their respects. The Nashimotos have continued supporting her charity foundations for helping Korean physically challged people ev after the Princess died in 1989.
Yi Bangja died on 30 April 1989, aged 87, at the Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace from cancer. Her funeral was held as a semi-state funeral which Prince Mikasa and Princess Mikasa of Japan attded and she was buried beside her husband, Crown Prince Euimin, at the Hongyureung, Namyangju near Seoul.Princess Deokhye of Korea (Korean: 덕혜옹주, Deokhye-Ongju; Japanese: 徳恵姫, Tokue-hime; 25 May 1912 – 21 April 1989) was the last princess of the Korean royal family.
She was born on 25 May 1912, at Changdeok Palace, in Seoul, as the youngest daughter of Emperor Gojong from his concubine, th known as Yang Gwi-in. After her birth, Gojong bestowed the royal title Boknyeong on Lady Yang.
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Deokhye was not formally recognized as a princess by Japan until 1917, because she was not the daughter of a Que. In 1917, her name was formally tered into the Imperial Family's registry. Her father loved her greatly and established the Deoksugung Kindergart for her in Junmyungdang (준명당),
In South Korea, she is called Deokhye Ongju, not Gongju. Gongju refers to the daughters of the Que, and Ongju refers to the daughters of concubines.
Yi Deokhye was born as the daughter of Yang Gwiin (later Lady Boknyeong) and the th-60-year-old Emperor Emeritus Gojong on 25 May 1912, nearly two years after the Japanese annexation of Korea. Immediately after birth, she was called Agi (아기, 阿只, meaning baby) and th named Deokhye. Her mother was a low-ranking court lady working in the kitch of Deoksugung.
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Gojong had 16 childr with his 10 wives, but Deokhye was his first daughter; his four other daughters were not counted as they all died under the age of one. Gojong was delighted with the birth of his first daughter and raised her with meticulous love. In 1916, he established the Deoksugung Kindergart dedicated to her, where Deokhye would attd.
However, apart from her father, because she didn't have an official title, she was ignored and treated like she did not exist. Later, she was nicknamed Boknyeong-dang.
In 1917, her father persuaded Terauchi Masatake, the th-ruling Governor-Geral of Korea, to ter her name into the registry of the Imperial Family, offering her legitimacy and granting her the title of princess.
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In 1919, Emperor Gojong planned a secret gagemt betwe Princess Deokhye and Kim Jang-han, the nephew of Kim Hwang-jin, a court chamberlain. He had sought to protect his daughter through it, but the gagemt failed due to Japan's intervtion and Kim Hwang-jin was not permitted to ter Deoksu Palace again. Emperor Gojong died suddly on 21 January 1919.
In 1925, the Princess was tak to Japan under the pretse of continuing her studies. Like her brothers, she attded the Gakushuin, where Yukika Sohma was among her schoolmates. In Japan she was known as Princess Tokue (徳恵姫, Tokue-hime). According to Yukika, she was untalkative and struggled with exercising.
Upon the news of her mother's death in 1929, Deokhye was finally giv permission to visit Korea temporarily, in order to attd the funeral. However, she was not allowed to wear the proper clothing.
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In the spring of 1930, upon the onset of a psychological condition (manifested by sleepwalking), she moved to King Yi's Palace, the Tokyo house of her brother, Crown Prince Eun. During this period, she oft forgot to eat and drink. Her physician diagnosed her illness as precocious demtia (today called schizophria),
In May 1931, after matchmaking by Empress Teimei, the consort of Emperor Taishō of Japan, Princess Deokhye married Count Sō Takeyuki (武志; 1908–1985), a Japanese aristocrat.
The marriage had in fact be decided in 1930. Her brother had protested against it, and it had be postponed because of her condition, but wh she recovered, she was immediately giv instructions that the wedding was to take place.
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In Korea, on 14 August 1932. In 1933, Deokhye was again expericing mtal illness, and after this, she spt many years in various mtal health clinics.
With the defeat of Japan in World War II, Korea once again became indepdt and her husband lost his noble title, as the Japanese peerage was abolished.
Her daughter, Masae, graduated from Waseda University's Departmt of Literature and met Suzuki Noboru, whom she married in 1955. Her son-in-law would evtually take on her husband’s last name as the heir to the family.
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As Deokhye continued to be in a poor health condition, and after having permission from Crown Prince Uimin, Sō Takeyuki evtually divorced in 1955; he later remarried to a Japanese woman named Yoshie Katsumura who he had three childr with.
Having suffered an unhappy marriage, Deokhye's grief was compounded by the loss of her only daughter, who disappeared on 26 August 1956, reportedly committing suicide due to the stress of her parts' divorce. Her daughter’s suicide note was found in the mountains. As a result, Deokhye's condition deteriorated at a slow yet considerable pace.
At first, the South Korean governmt refused to allow the return of the last royal bloodline, because Presidt Rhee Syng-man wanted to avoid political chaos.
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The princess reunited with her kindergart and elemtary school classmate, Min Yong-ah (민용아, 閔龍兒), and her 72-year-old wet nurse, Byeon Bok-dong (변복동, 卞福童), wh they wt to pick her up at Gimpo Airport.
After meeting her sister-in-law, Empress Sunjeonghyo, the second wife of her older half-brother Emperor Sunjong, she was admitted to Seoul National University Hospital later that day for surgery to remove a polyp in the uterus.
Despite being born in Korea, the princess was able to restore her Korean citizship and finalized her name, Yi Deokhye, on 8 February 1962, and was soon discharged from the hospital as her condition was
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