Nobusuke Takatsukasa

Prince Nobusuke Takatsukasa (鷹司 信輔, Takatsukasa Nobusuke, April 29, 1889–February 1, 1959), son of Hiromichi, was a Japanese nobleman and politician of the Meiji era (1868–1912) who served as a member of House of Peers in the Diet of Japan.

[1] A keen ornithologist he went by the nickname of “Bird Prince” (Kotori no koshaku).

Takatsukasa graduated in zoology from the Imperial University of Tokyo (1914) where he studied under Isao Ijima and received a doctorate in 1943.

[4] In 1944, he became high priest for the Meiji Shrine and was involved in the "Great Zoo Massacre" of 1943 at the Ueno zoological gardens.

Their son Toshimichi married Kazuko Takatsukasa, daughter of Emperor Hirohito.