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On May 25, 1900, Crown Prince Yoshihito married then 16-year-old SadakoEmpress Sadako ( June 25, 1884 May 17, 1951) was married to the Taisho Emperor and was the mother of Emperor Hirohito. She was born in Tokyo When she gave birth to Emperor Hirohito, she was the first wife of a Crown Prince or Emperor to do so since 1750., the daughter of Prince Kujo Mitchitaka [peer], the head of the five senior branches of the Fujiwara clan, and had issue:

1. The future Emperor Showa (Hirohito), ( April 29April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). There are 246 days remaining. Events 1400-1799 1429 Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc relieves Orleans from English siege. 1661 China's Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan., 1901Events January 1 World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide). January 1 The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an act of t - January 7January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining (359 in leap years). The day is Jinjitsu , in Japan. Events 1325 Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 France takes Calais, the last continental possession of, 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra); married Princess Nagako ( March 6March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining. It is Keichitsu in the Japanese calendar. Events 1447 Nicholas V becomes Pope. 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas Portugal gives Castile the Canary Isl, 19031903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. Events January 1 Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India - June 16, 2000), eldest daughter of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi; and had issue.
2. Prince Chichibu (Yasuhito), ( May 26, 1902 - January 4, 1953); married September 28, 1928 Miss Matsudaira Setsuko ( September 9, 1909 - August 25, 1995), eldest daughter of Mr. Matsudaira Tsuneo, sometime Japanese ambassador to Britain and the United States, and imperial household minister; no issue.
3. Prince Takamatsu (Nobuhito), ( March 1, 1905 - February 3, 1987); married February 4, 1930 Tokugawa Kikuko (born December 26, 1911), second daughter of Prince Tokugawa Yoshihisa [peer]; no issue.
4. Prince Mikasa (Takahito), (born December 2, 1915); married October 22, 1941 Yuriko (born June 6, 1923), second daughter of Viscount Takagi Masanori.

Yoshihito had contracted meningitis shortly after birth, leaving him in poor health both physically and mentally. (There are also rumors of lead poisoning.) He was kept out of view from the public as much as possible, even after his ascension to the throne in 1912. On one of the rare occasions he was seen in public, the 1913 opening of the Diet, he famously rolled his prepared speech into a telescope and stared at the assembly through it instead of reading it. After 1919, he undertook no official duties, and Hirohito was named Prince Regent in 1921.

Upon his death, he was succeeded by his son, Hirohito.

See also: Taisho period