father death_date death_place mother birth_date article_title name
pujie 4 december 1957 mount amagi , japan lady hiro saga 26 february 1938 huisheng
 huisheng
huisheng

aisin gioro huisheng -lrb- ; japanese : 愛新覚羅慧生 ; romaji : aishinkakura eisei -rrb- -lrb- 26 february 1938 -- 4 december 1957 -rrb- was a princess of the manchu ruling family .
she was the elder daughter of pujie and his japanese wife , the noblewoman hiro saga .
her uncle , puyi , was the last emperor of the qing dynasty .
she lived in manchukuo until 1943 , when she was sent to japan to live with her grandparents .
she received her education in various prestigious private schools , such as the gakushuin .
she had great interest in both japanese and chinese literature .
at that time , the political climate in manchukuo was extremely unstable .
after the fall of japan in world war ii , her father was imprisoned by the soviet union , while her mother and younger sister yunsheng were alternately imprisoned or in hiding .
after her mother and sister 's release in 1947 , she was reunited with them , but her father remained incarcerated and lost touch with them .
during this time , huisheng wrote to chinese premier zhou enlai , requesting to be put in touch with her father .
premier zhou was moved by her letter and granted her permission .
unfortunately , the visit of the daughter to her father was not to be .
the most widely publicized shinju in recent years was that of a princess and a commoner , both 19 , who chose to die together in a romantic woodland setting when their parents opposed their marriage .
the tragic deaths of princess pu hui-sheng , niece of the last emperor of china , and takemichi okubo , son of a railway executive , had a popular appeal closely resembling the ending in many of japan 's famous kabuki dramas .
the case also has assumed immediate social significance for japan 's emancipated postwar generation and for her less liberal-minded elders .
some believe that the tragedy could have historic influence .
younger japanese cite the tragedy as a consequence of what they call `` feudalistic thinking '' by old-fashioned parents .
spokesmen for the older generation say this would not have happened if the united states occupation had not forced a lot of unwanted innovations upon the japanese .
the case of the princess and the commoner has a special dramatic element princess pu had been mentioned as a possible candidate to marry crown prince akihito .
she and her lover disappeared december 4 , 1957 .
the girl left behind a note indicating a suicide pact .
several days later , after a search had been made , her mother , a marchioness in japan 's prewar nobility , broadcast on the radio that she had withdrawn her objections to the marriage .
it was too late .
their bodies were found in a secluded wood on the izu peninsula , a famous scenic and honeymoon area about 100 miles southwest of tokyo .
there they had spent one night in a hotel .
the princess , a new gold ring on her finger , lay with her head cradled in young okubo 's left arm .
the dead boy held an old japanese army pistol in his right hand .
above their heads was a twist of tissue paper containing snips of their hair and fingernails , part of the ritual of japanese love suicides .
at the request of the boy 's father , their ashes were interred together .
there had long been a superstition within her family , which said that all the eldest daughters born to their household were destined to die young .
huisheng 's eldest aunt had died young as well .
huisheng was first buried in nisonin , the saga family plot , and later moved to an aisin-gioro family plot in shimonoseki , yamaguchi .
when pujie and lady saga died , they were buried there as well .
