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English: In 1352 the Southern Court that was going against the Northern Court and the bakufu, attempted to cause the Kanno Disturbance and was able to kidnap the Chiten, Emperor, and Crown Prince of the Northern Court.
Japanese: 1352年（正平7年/観応3年）、北朝・幕府と対立していた南朝は、観応の擾乱に乗じ、北朝側の治天・天皇・皇太子を拉致することに成功した。
English: Since Chiten had to give official approval for making any political decision even though it may be just a formality, the bakufu and the court nobles of Northern Court started working on restoring the Northern Court.
Japanese: 建前であっても、政治決定には治天の裁可を必要としていたため、幕府及び北朝側の公家は北朝の再開に取り組むこととなった。
English: They thought it would be hard to get their Chiten, Emperor, and Crown Prince back, they appointed Imperial Prince Iyahito (Emperor Kogon's son) as Emperor Gokogon, who was in the priesthood, they also decided to appoint Kogimonin (Neishi/Yasuko SAIONJI, Gofushimi's Nyogo (high-ranking lady in the court, Emperor Kogon's birth mother) as Chiten, who had the highest rank in the Imperial Family among those who remained in Kyoto.
Japanese: 治天・天皇・皇太子の奪還は困難と見られたため、出家していた弥仁親王（光厳の子）を後光厳天皇とし、京都に残る天皇家の中で最高位者だった広義門院（西園寺寧子、後伏見の女御・光厳の生母）を治天とすることで対応した。
English: It was the first time to have a female Chiten who was not from Imperial Family, however due to this succession, the Northern Court was able to survive.
Japanese: 女性で、しかも天皇家の出自でない者が治天となるのは前代未聞の事態だったが、これにより北朝は存続することができた。
English: Whatever the political form was, it was necessary to keep the style of Chiten as it was.
Japanese: どのような形であれ、治天という存在が政治上、必要不可欠だったのである。
English: After that although some retired emperor ruled the cloistered government, it was different from the head of the Imperial Family ruling politics, therefore, this type of government could not be called Chiten.
Japanese: その後、院政を行った上皇はいるが、天皇家の家督者としての実権を有していたとは言えず、治天と呼ぶにはふさわしくないと考えられている。
English: For example Emperor Goenyu's son, Emperor Gokomatsu made the unity of the Southern and the Northern Courts happen in 1392, and became the only Emperor since Emperor Godaigo's era, he then passed the Imperial throne to his Prince, Emperor Shoko to start his cloistered government, after Emperor Shoko died in 1428 and there was no one to succeed to the throne, he appointed Emperor Gohanazono from the Fushiminomiya family as a successor to continue to rule his government.
Japanese: 例えば、後円融の子後小松天皇は、1392年（元中9年/明徳3年）に南北朝合一を実現して後醍醐以来の唯一の天皇となり、皇子称光天皇に譲位して院政を行い、1428年（正長元年）に称光が没して皇統が絶えると、伏見宮家から後花園天皇を立てて院政を続けた。
English: This was planned by Shogun, Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA who tried to cancel the mutual agreement of Ryoto tetsuritsu between the Southern and the Northern Courts, and to make the Imperial succession of the Jimyoin Imperial line become an existing fact.
Japanese: これらは、南北朝合一の約束であった両統迭立を死文化し、持明院統による皇位継承を既成事実化するための将軍足利義満の意向であった。
English: After Goenyu died, Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA was the actual Chiten, there was a theory that he planned to appoint his son, Yoshitsugu, as Emperor.
Japanese: なお、後円融の死後、足利義満が事実上の治天となっており、子の義嗣を天皇位に就けようと画策していたとする説もある。
English: It was also presumed that Emperor Gohanazono was appointed to Emperor after Yoshimitsu died from Retired Emperor Gokomatsu's intention as Chiten.
Japanese: また、義満死後に生じた後花園天皇の擁立は、後小松上皇による治天としての行為であるとも考えられる。
English: The former Imperial Family is the colloquial term of Imperial Family members who ceased to be a member of the Imperial Family in 1947, consisted of 51 members of 11 Miyake (house of an imperial prince) and their male descendants.
Japanese: 旧皇族（きゅうこうぞく）とは、1947年（昭和22年）に皇籍離脱した11宮家51名の皇族及びその男系子孫を指す俗称である。
English: Strictly speaking, male descendants who were born after their parents left the Imperial Family, should have been called 'male descendants of the former Imperial Family,' since they were not included as Imperial Family members in the past, however they were generally called as a whole, 'the former Imperial Family.'
Japanese: 離脱後に生まれた男系子孫については、過去に皇族であったことがないため「旧皇族の男系子孫」と呼ぶのが正確であるが、一般には彼らをも一括して「旧皇族」と呼んでいる。
English: According to Tsuneyasu TAKEDA the Imperial Household Agency defines emperors, empresses, princess from out of 51 Imperial members of 11 Miyake who ceased to be members of the Imperial Family in 1947, as 'descendants of the former Imperial Family,' and the head of the Miyake were called 'the former Imperial Family.'
Japanese: 竹田恒泰によれば、宮内庁は1947年に皇籍離脱した11宮家51人の王、王妃、女王を「元皇族」、その中で当時宮家の当主だった王を「旧皇族」と定義しているという。
English: All the former Imperial Family members were the male descendants of the fourth Fushiminomiya Imperial Prince Sadatsune, who was the head of the successive Imperial hereditary family since the Muromachi period, and were also descendants of the third Emperor, Emperor Suko of the Northern Court during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts.
Japanese: 旧皇族は、すべて室町時代以来続く世襲親王家の筆頭であった伏見宮の第4代伏見宮貞常親王の男系子孫にあたり、南北朝時代の北朝第3代崇光天皇の末裔でもある。
English: The former 11 houses of Miyake originated from Fushiminomiya family, the children of the nineteenth Fushiminomiya Imperial Prince Sadayoshi and the twentieth Imperial Prince Kuniie, left the Fushiminomiya family and made branch families during the period before and after the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 旧宮家11家は、いずれも明治維新前後の時期、伏見宮第19代伏見宮貞敬親王・第20代伏見宮邦家親王の子どもたちが分家して多くの宮家を興したことに起源を有する。
English: But most of those families were considered to last for just one generation starting from the head of the family, and they were not considered as hereditary families.
Japanese: ただし、そのほとんどは元来本人1代限りの宮家とされ、世襲は想定されていなかった。
English: The Fushiminomiya family succeeded to the throne from generation to generation since Imperial Prince Sadatsune and of course this influenced their branch families however, it must be noted that the Fushiminomiya family's right to succeed the throne was not just due to the fact they had a close blood line to the main family.
Japanese: 伏見宮家は、貞常親王以来連綿として皇位継承権を保持してきており、それは当然、そこから派生した各宮家にも及んでいるものであるが、伏見宮家が保持した皇位継承権は、単に本家との血縁の近さに基づくものではないことには留意しなければならない。
English: It is commonly known that other hereditary Imperial Families such as; Katsuranomiya, Arisugawanomiya, Kaninnomiya, and including Fushiminomiya, were able to succeed to positions of Imperial princes and maintain the Imperial succession, because they enjoyed the special privilege of the family, not because they had close blood lines to the main family.
Japanese: 伏見宮家のほか、桂宮・有栖川宮・閑院宮の各世襲親王家に共通することであるが、これら4家が親王の地位を世襲し皇位継承権を維持できたのは、血縁によるものではなく、あくまでも家の特権としてである。
English: The successive head of the family or the successors to the family created fictitious relationships to emperors and retired emperors of each era, by being adopted as their children, then they were able to receive title of Imperial Prince by the Imperial Order which secured their position to succeed to the Imperial throne.
Japanese: 歴代の当主・継嗣は、そのときどきの天皇または上皇の猶子となることによって擬制的な親子関係を構築し、そのことを根拠にして親王宣下により親王の地位と称号を与えられて、皇位継承権を保障されてきたのである。
English: Also, Cloistered Imperial Princes and Priestly Imperial Princes who entered a monzeki temple (a high-ranking temple where members of the Imperial Family and nobility entered the priesthood) were supposed to be given the title of Imperial Prince as an adopted child of the Emperor.
Japanese: また、門跡寺院に入寺する法親王・入道親王は天皇の養子として親王宣下を受けることになっていた。
English: This was done to ensure that former priests of a monzeki temple were granted the honor befitting their rank even after they returned to secular life as a result of the movement to abolish Buddhism in the early Meiji period, and because of this, one-generation Miyake (house of an imperial prince) sprung up one after another around the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 明治維新前後に次々に設置された1代限り宮家は、明治初年の廃仏毀釈の風潮に乗って続々と還俗した元門跡たちに、その身分にふさわしい礼遇を与えるためのものであった。
English: After Emperor Shoko died without having any children to succeed his position, the former Imperial family was succeeded by Imperial Prince Sadatsune's older brother, Prince Hikohito, (the hundred and second Emperor Gohanazono) since the family was not succeeded by the original Imperial blood line, there was no direct continuity of the blood line from male side of the Imperial Family.
Japanese: 旧皇族は、貞常親王の兄彦仁王が、皇子を遺さずに死去した称光天皇の跡を継いで天皇（第102代後花園天皇）となって以後、現在の皇室とは血統が完全に分岐しているため、男系での血縁は非常に遠い。
English: However the family was still succeeded by male descendants of Emperor Jinmu, the main condition for Imperial succession, and the five members of four Miyake married to the Princess of Emperor Meiji or Emperor Showa, these Imperial members are close relatives on female side of the Imperial Family.
Japanese: しかし、皇位継承資格の第一条件である神武天皇の男系子孫であるという点では変わりがなく、また4宮家5名の皇族が明治天皇及び昭和天皇の皇女と婚姻しているため、これらの皇族は女系では天皇家と近親に当たる。
English: Nashimotonomiya (Although Nashimotonomiya Prince Morimasa only had daughters, after Prince Morimasa died, his mistress Itsuko NASHIMOTO adopted the third son of Norihiko NASHIMOTO) (the former Count Norihiko Tatsuta)
Japanese: 梨本宮（梨本宮守正王には女子しかいなかったが、守正王の死後、未亡人の梨本伊都子が多嘉王の三男梨本徳彦（元伯爵龍田徳彦）を養子にしている。)
English: Empress Kojun's younger brother, Jigo HIGASHIFUSHIMI (the former Prince Kunihide, the former Count Kunihide HIGASHIFUSHIMI) succeeded the ritual of the family)
Japanese: なお、香淳皇后の弟の東伏見慈洽（もと邦英王、元伯爵東伏見邦英）が同家の祭祀を継承している）
English: The Kuni family is related to the Emperor's family through Empress Kojun, this was because the Empress made a bridal entry into the Imperial Palace, there was no direct male blood line from the Imperial Family in the successors of the Kuni family since Emperor Meiji.
Japanese: 久邇家は香淳皇后を通して天皇家と縁戚関係にあるが、これは香淳皇后が入内したことによるもので久邇家嫡流には明治天皇以降の天皇の男系血統は入っていない。
English: The Higashikuni family is also related to the Emperor's family through Emperor Meiji's Princess, sometimes comments are heard; 'the family who's blood line is the closest to the Imperial Family.'
Japanese: 東久邇家は明治天皇の皇女を通じても天皇家と縁戚であり、「最も天皇家の血が濃い旧皇族」などと評されることがある。
English: As mentioned before, the Higashikuni family is also related to Imperial Family through Emperor Showa's Princess.
Japanese: 東久邇家は前述した通り、昭和天皇の皇女を通じても天皇家と縁戚である。
English: After the War on October 14, 1947, 51 family members of 11 Miyake ceased being members of the Imperial Family since it was hard for the nation to maintain the existing scale of Imperial Families financially, this was because Imperial assets did not belong to the national treasury any longer after receiving the order from the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
Japanese: 敗戦後の1947年10月14日、11宮家51名は、連合国軍最高司令官総司令部の指令により皇室財産が国庫に帰属させられたため、経済的に従前の規模の皇室を維持できなくなったことから皇籍を離脱した。
English: According to "Showa Zaiseishi" (The Financial History of Showa), the financial scale of the Imperial Family before and after the War was presumed to be about twenty five million yen.
Japanese: 『昭和財政史』によれば、敗戦前後の皇室の財政規模は約2,500万円と推定されている。
English: This amount, four million five hundred thousand, was set for expenditures from 1910 to 1947, the difference due to the expansion of the financial scale afterwards was managed out of individual Imperial financial assets such as Mountains and forests, securities, and agricultural land.
Japanese: この450万円という額は明治43年度から昭和22年度まで完全に固定され、その後の財政規模の拡大にともなう差額は山林・有価証券・農地などの皇室独自の財源からまかなわれていた。
English: After the postwar reform, it became impossible for the Imperial Family to manage their finances, increasing expenses several times could not have been practically accepted, especially under the tight financial situation just after the War.
Japanese: 戦後改革により皇室が自らこの差額を調達することは不可能となり、長年固定されていた皇室費を一挙に数倍に増額することは、敗戦直後の極度に逼迫した財政のもとではとうてい合理的な説明がつかなかったのである。
English: It was a natural consequence as was mentioned later, since the government was not keen on letting the scale of expenses for the Imperial family increase unlimitedly.
Japanese: 後述のように、政府が皇族を無制限に増加させることには一貫して消極的であったことからも、この結果は当然のことであった。
English: The concept of the ceasing to be a Imperial Family member was not brought about by the General Headquarters, as mentioned in ' The reinforcement regulations on ceasing to be a member of the Imperial Family' which was explained later, we must understand the concept as an extended policy towards the Imperial Family, which was applied to them since the Meiji period.
Japanese: 皇籍離脱という着想自体は、GHQにより新たに持ち込まれたものではなく、後述の「皇族ノ降下ニ関スル施行準則」に表現されているように、明治以来、皇族たちに対して一貫して採用されてきた政策の延長上に理解すべきものである。
English: Higashikuni Imperial Prince Naruhiko was known for often saying since he was young that he wished to leave his position in the Imperial Family, he also asked Emperor Showa to approve him ceasing to be a member of the Imperial Family, he made his intention clear just after he resigned as Prime Minister in 1945, he also mentioned to it to the media and asked other Imperial members to follow him, and once the Department of the Imperial Household had to make sudden announcement to deny it.
Japanese: 東久邇宮稔彦王は、若いころからしばしば皇族の身分を離れたいと発言してきたことで知られているが、1945年（昭和20年）に内閣総理大臣を辞任した直後にも、自らの臣籍降下を昭和天皇に願い出ており、さらにそのことをマスコミに語り、他の皇族も自分にならうことを求めたために、宮内省があわてて否定の声明を出す一幕もあった。
English: Of course Emperor Showa and some Imperial Family members were against this movement, there was an idea to keep Miyake such as the Kuninomiya family which was the original family Empress Kojun was from, and the Higashikuninomiya family, to which Emperor Showa's first Prince, Shigeko HIGASHIKUNI married into, but finally three families were kept, they were Emperor Showa's younger brother's family, Chichibunomiya, Takamatsunomiya, Mikasanomiya, and the other 11 Miyake were all to cease being members of the Imperial Family.
Japanese: 当然、この動きには昭和天皇や一部の皇族からの抵抗があり、香淳皇后の実家である久邇宮家や昭和天皇の第一皇女東久邇成子の嫁ぎ先である東久邇宮家など一部の宮家は皇室に残す案も出たが、最終的には、昭和天皇の実弟である秩父宮・高松宮家・三笠宮家の3宮家のみを残し、伏見宮流の11宮家は全て皇籍離脱させることになった。
English: 51 members of 11 Miyake left in accordance with the current Imperial Family Law, Clause 11, 'Due to Imperial member's will or due to the decision of the Imperial Household Council', or Clause 14 of the same law, 'Due to Imperial member's will' or Clause 13, 'the Imperial Princes or their Princesses or other lineal descendants and their Empresses should leave their position as Imperial members, excluding female members who married into other Imperial Families or their lineal descendants.'
Japanese: 11宮家51名の皇籍離脱は、法形式上は現行の皇室典範11条「その意思に基き、皇室会議の議により」若しくは同14条「その意思により」又は同13条「皇族の身分を離れる親王又は王の妃並びに直系卑属及びその妃は、他の皇族と婚姻した女子及びその直系卑属を除き、同時に皇族の身分を離れる」によってそれぞれ行なわれた。
English: The regulation concerning eternal Imperial membership of the former Imperial House Law issued on February 11, 1889 was in fact abolished when the same Law was greatly revised in 1907, it was decided that only an Imperial Prince (up to great-great-grandchild) can keep his position as an Imperial member.
Japanese: 1889年（明治22年）2月11日制定の旧皇室典範で打ち出された永世皇族制は、すでに1907年（明治40年）の皇室典範増補で事実上放棄され、確実に皇族の身分にとどまるのは親王のみ（皇玄孫まで）とされた。
English: According to Clause 1, enlarged revision of this Law, it states a Prince can be demoted from nobility to subject upon receiving the emperor's order or by receiving a surname by invocation.
Japanese: 増補第1条には、「王ハ勅旨又ハ情願ニ依リ家名ヲ賜ヒ華族ニ列セシムコトアルヘシ」とある。
English: Demotion from nobility to subject was recommended, however, this was just a possible option for an Imperial member, it was not a definite option.
Japanese: この段階では皇族の臣籍降下は、推奨されてはいるものの、まだ“可能性”の段階にとどまっていた。
English: Then 'within the regulation of the former Imperial House Law,' issued on May 19, 1920, the concept of this Law was made even more drastic, as said in regulation No.1,
Japanese: そこで、1920年（大正9年）5月19日に制定された「旧皇室典範皇族の範囲規定」により、この趣旨はさらに徹底され、準則第1条には、
English: According to Imperial Family Law, expanded regulation Article No.1 issued by the Emperor February 11, 1907, and Article No. 25 of the regulation of Imperial rank, for the Princes of the descendants of a great-great grandchild of the Imperial Family, if the Prince does not appeal entreat, they will be forced to become nobles by receiving surnames by the Emperor's order excluding eldest son's grandchildren's line up to four generations.
Japanese: 皇玄孫ノ子孫タル王明治40年2月11日勅定の皇室典範増補第1条及ヒ皇族身位令第25条ノ規定ニヨリ情願ヲ為ササルトキハ長子孫ノ系統4世以内ヲ除クノ外勅旨ニ依リ家名ヲ賜ヒ華族ニ列ス
English: It was clearly mentioned that any Prince who did not submit a petition would be demoted from a noble to a commoner (clause 25 of the regulations concerning Imperial rank stated that only Princes who were older than fifteen years old could submit a petition).
Japanese: とあり、情願をしない王は強制的に臣籍降下させることが明記された（皇族身位令第25条は、情願をすることができるのは満15歳以上の王に限る旨の規定である）。
English: Great-great grand children of the Imperial Family would still be called members of the Imperial Family, other descendants were to be demoted from nobility to subject, except for the eldest son who will succeed to the Miyake, and in this case four generations after a great-great grandchild of the Imperial Family, would still be called members of the Imperial Family, after that, the descendants were to be demoted from nobility to subject.
Japanese: 具体的には、皇玄孫までを皇族としその子孫は臣籍に下すこと、ただし宮家を継承する長男のみは例外とするが、これも皇玄孫のさらに4世（玄孫）までを皇族としそれ以降の世代は臣籍に下すことになった。
English: The Fushiminomiya line of the Imperial Family were not included under this regulation, it was decided to add fictitious Imperial Princes to great-great grandchild of the Imperial Family, and to keep four generations (great-great grand child) of Imperial Princes in the ranks of the Imperial Family.
Japanese: 伏見宮系の皇族はもちろんこの範囲には収まらないが、邦家親王を皇玄孫に擬制し、邦家親王の4世（玄孫）までを皇族の身分にとどめるものとされていた。
English: Regarding the former Imperial Family, the purpose of the regulation was to prevent increasing the numbers of Miyake and prevent Imperial Family members spreading from among the Imperial Prince's descendants and to let it die out in the future accordingly, not to keep the Imperial succession from the Fushiminomiya line.
Japanese: 旧皇族との関連で言えば、準則は、伏見宮系の皇族を皇位継承者として確保することよりも、むしろ邦家親王の子孫からこれ以上宮家・皇族が増加することを抑制し、将来的には自然消滅に導くことを志向していた。
English: It was expressed in No.1 of the regulation as a purpose to limit the range of Imperial Family to a narrower definition, (it was applied in the same way to the direct descendants of Emperor Taisho) it was apparent that the regulation for an Imperial Prince's descendants was an exception as it was mentioned in an additional rule.
Japanese: そのことは、皇族の範囲を狭く限定する趣旨（これは大正天皇の直系の子孫であっても同様に適用される）が準則の第1条にまず謳われ、邦家親王の子孫に関する規定は特例として「附則」に言及されているに過ぎないことからも明白である。
English: The regulation was to set the process of how descendants of the great-great grandchildren of the Imperial Family were to be demoted from nobility to subject, practically and automatically one after another, which was not covered in the expanded revised regulation.
Japanese: 準則は、増補では明確でなかった皇玄孫以降の子孫たちが順次臣籍に降下してゆく基準を具体的・機械的に定めるものであった。
English: By the way, when the regulation was strictly applied, there were only a limited number of people who were able to keep their position as members of the Imperial Family, mentioned in the following short genealogical table.
Japanese: なお、準則を厳密に適用した場合、皇族の身分を保つことができた者は以下の略系図に掲載された者に限定されることになる。
English: Of course there was an argument against having Imperial Family members demotion from nobility to subject, (however, there were some examples of people receiving surnames from the Imperial Prince or the Emperor and were forced to be demoted to subjects since the Dynasty period), at the discussion of the Privy Council that was consulted about the regulation to make a decision, the government decided to apply the regulation based on individual situations instead of applying the rule evenly or automatically across the board.
Japanese: むろん、皇族を強制的に臣籍に下すことを原則とするこのような規定には異論もあり（とはいえ、親王、王に姓を賜り強制的に臣籍に下げることは王朝時代から存在した）、裁定にあたって準則の諮詢を受けた枢密院での審議でも、政府側からは、一律・機械的に適用するのではなく個別の事情に応じて判断する旨の答弁がなされている。
English: Next, in the consultation of the Imperial meeting, it was expected that some Imperial members would be against the regulation, the government took advantage of Imperial Meeting regulations, which stated that members of the Imperial meeting are not allowed to vote in terms of 'proceedings related to their own benefit,' and the chairman (Fushiminomiya Imperial Prince Sadanaru at that time) let the proceedings pass through the Imperial meeting without taking vote.
Japanese: ついで諮詢を受けた皇族会議でも一部の皇族たちの反発が予想されたため、政府側は、皇族会議の議員は「自己の利害に関する議事」では採決に参加できないという皇族会議令第9条の規定を利用して採決を行わずに議長（当時は伏見宮貞愛親王）の判断のみで皇族会議を通過させている。
English: Since the matters in relation to Imperial rank was under Emperor Taikenjiko's control (Emperor has right to control), even if this regulation existed, it was possible for the Emperor to make an exception if he wished to do so.
Japanese: 皇族の身分に関する事柄は天皇の大権事項であるから、この準則が存在したとしても、天皇の意思があれば例外をつくることは可能であったと考えられる。
English: In fact, there were 12 examples of Imperial members demoted from nobility to subject twenty six years after the regulation was issued and before it was abolished in 1946, in each case a Prince who falls under the regulation, voluntary appealed to avoid being forced to become nobility on the Emperor's order.
Japanese: 事実、準則が制定されてから1946年（昭和21年）に廃止されるまでの26年間に12例の皇族の臣籍降下があったが、いずれも準則に該当する王が勅旨により強制的に華族とされることを避けるために自発的に情願を行ったものである。
English: Prince Morihiro, who married to Emperor Showa's Princess, was not treated any different, regarding his title of Imperial Prince, etc.
Japanese: 昭和天皇の皇女と婚姻した盛厚王が親王宣下などの特別待遇を受けた形跡もない。
English: The regulation was considered to be obeyed strictly since there was a traditional practice established whereby the first Prince who became nobility from Miyake was to become marquis (Marquis Kacho and so on), and after the second Prince, they started using count as a title (Count Higashifushimi and so on).
Japanese: ある宮家から最初に華族となった王は侯爵（華頂侯爵など）とし、2人目以降は伯爵（東伏見伯爵など）とする、という慣行が定着していたほどであるから、準則は厳密に遵守されたと考えるのが妥当である。
English: This regulation was the subject most talked about during discussions of Imperial succession during the Heisei period.
Japanese: なお、この準則は、平成の皇位継承問題の議論のなかで一時脚光を浴びたことがある。
English: Because once this regulation is put into practice, if some former Imperial Families, still ranking as Imperial members, have a male successor who could have become a successor to the throne from the Miyake, this would possibly prevent a crisis of discontinuity in Imperial succession.
Japanese: この準則に従えば、一部の旧皇族はいまだに皇族の身分にとどまっていたことになり、これらの旧皇族に男系男子があった場合「宮家からの天皇即位」という解決策をもって皇統断絶の危機を回避する手段とできた可能性があるからである。
English: Their surname 'Miya' of the title Miyago was removed from their original name, and they started a new life as a subject.
Japanese: 彼らは、皇籍離脱後は、それぞれ宮号から「宮」の字を除いたものを名字として名乗り、民間人としての生活を始めた。
English: Most of them lost a large part of their assets in taxes and suffered financial difficulties for a long time; some, however, managed to keep hold of some of their assets and so were able to maintain their previous standard of living, others achieved success by starting their own business, while still others found employment in occupations related to the Imperial Family, the former nobility, or Shintoism. The fates of these former members of the Imperial Family varied thereafter.
Japanese: 財産税の賦課を受けてほとんどの者が資産の多くを失い、長く経済的な困窮に苦しんだ者がいる一方、資産の一部を確保して一定の生活レベルを維持できた者、事業を興して成功した者、皇室・旧華族・神道などに関係する職に就いたりして、社会の名士として活動を続けた者もいた。
English: Most of the former members of the Imperial Family maintained a quiet life by avoiding public attention; there were some, however, who appeared in the media, such as Tsuneyasu TAKEDA who wrote books and gave public lectures.
Japanese: 旧皇族は世間の注目を避けて静かに生活してきた者がほとんどだったが、最近では、竹田恒泰のように積極的に著作や講演などで活躍し、マスメディアに登場している者もいる。
English: The name "Prince Hotel" was derived from a place on some land that used to belong to the Imperial Family.
Japanese: なお、プリンスホテルの社名は、ホテルの建物が旧皇族の手放した土地に立地していることに由来している。
English: Even after some people were demoted to subject, they were still related to Imperial Family, (some people are no longer part of the Imperial Family, but are still relatives to the emperor under civil law), they are members of Kikuei Shinbokukai, a friendship group that Imperial relatives belong to, and continue to socialize with the Imperial Family.
Japanese: 皇籍を離脱した後も皇室の親戚という立場には変わりがなく（皇族ではないが民法上天皇の親族である者もいる）、皇室の親族が所属する親睦団体の菊栄親睦会に所属して現在でも皇室と親しく交流を続けている。
English: Part of the Imperial Family members who passed away, such as Kuninomiya Prince Asaakira (Empress Kojun's brother) and Shigeko HIGASHIKUNI was buried in Toshimagaoka Graveyard as an exception.
Japanese: 久邇宮朝融王（香淳皇后の兄）や東久邇成子など、一部の旧皇族は特例として豊島岡墓地に葬られている。
English: He also appeared on the society pages of newspapers as Naruhito HIGASHIKUNI after he left the Imperial Family.)
Japanese: また、皇籍離脱後も東久邇稔彦としてたびたび新聞の三面記事を賑わせた）
English: *Above two people and Masanori KAYA, who is mentioned later, were born after their family left the Imperial Family, strictly speaking, they were 'male descendants of the former Imperial Family.'
Japanese: ※この両人および後述の賀陽正憲は皇籍離脱後の誕生であるため、厳密に区分すると「旧皇族の男系子孫」である。