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on trumped-up charges of plotting to overthrow the new government. Emperor Meiji pardoned him in
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Prince Kuni
Asahiko was the father of at least eighteen children (nine sons and nine daughters) by at least five different court ladies: (1) Izumitei Shizue, second daughter of Izumitei Shun'eki, a priest at
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