1. Hiro Saga was a Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.
14 Facts About Hiro Saga
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Hiro Saga was the daughter of Marquis Saneto Saga and a distant relative of Emperor Showa.
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Hiro Saga was married in 1937 to Pujie, the younger brother of Puyi, the last monarch of the Qing dynasty of China between 1908 and 1912 and the ruler of Japanese-backed Manchukuo between 1932 and 1945.
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The Hiro Saga family was of the kuge court nobility and a branch of the Ogimachi Sanjo branch of the northern Fujiwara lineage, she shared the same great-great-grand father with Emperor Meiji, Ogimichisanjo Sanetomo.
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Hiro Saga was born in Tokyo in 1914 as the eldest daughter of Marquis Saneto Hiro Saga and Naoko Hamaguchi.
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Hiro Saga was educated at the women's branch of the Gakushuin Peers' School.
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In 1936, Hiro Saga was introduced to Pujie, the younger brother of Puyi, the ruler of Manchukuo.
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Hiro Saga died at Mount Amagi on 10 December 1957 in what appeared to be a murder-suicide case.
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Hiro Saga married Kenji Fukunaga in 1968 and had five children with him.
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Hiro Saga published her memoir, Vicissitudes of a Princess, in 1959.
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Hiro Saga is a minor character in the Academy Award-winning 1987 film The Last Emperor, where she is played by Chinese actress Cheng Shuyan.
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In 1960, Kinuyo Tanaka produced and directed The Wandering Princess, a film adapted from Hiro Saga's memoirs published in 1959, with Machiko Kyo and Eiji Funakoshi in the roles of Hiro Saga and Pujie.
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Pujie and Hiro Saga's story was adapted into a television drama, Ruten no Ohi - Saigo no Kotei, shown on TV Asahi in 2003.
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Takako Tokiwa, who portrayed Hiro Saga in the drama, was a classmate of Saga's grandson in real life.