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Count Sō Takeyuki | |
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 Count Sō Takeyuki in 1931 | |
| 37thLord of theSō clan | |
| In office October 1923 – 22 April 1985 | |
| Preceded by | Sō Shigemochi |
| Succeeded by | Sō Tatsuhito (as titular head) |
| Count ofTsushima | |
| In office October 1923 – 3 May 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Sō Shigemochi |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member of theHouse of Peers | |
| In office 27 June 1946 – 2 May 1947 | |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1908-02-16)16 February 1908 Tokyo,Empire of Japan |
| Died | 22 April 1985(1985-04-22) (aged 77) |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | Countess Sō Masae Sō Tatsuhito Sō Waki Sō Nakamasa |
| Parent(s) | Kuroda Yoriyuki Kuroda Reiko |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Occupation | Aristocrat, academic and poet |
CountSō Takeyuki (宗武志,Takeyuki Sō,Korean:소 다케유키; 16 February 1908 – 22 April 1985) was a Japanese aristocrat, academic and poet. He was the count of the islandTsushima from 1923 to 1985. He was the husband ofPrincess Deokhye, the last princess of theKorean Empire, and served as a member of theHouse of Peers.[1]
Sō was born Kuroda Takeyuki (黒田 武志) on 16 February 1908 as the only son of aristocratKuroda Yoriyuki, a self-made lawmaker who was also the judge of theNagasaki andYokohama courts. His mother was Kuroda Reiko, the daughter of Kuroda Naoyasu, Lord of Kururi, Kazusa (nowChiba Prefecture). Originally, Kuroda was the sixth son of Yoshiyori, the Lord ofTsushima, but when his wife's father passed away without a son in 1884, he became the heir to the Kuroda family instead. Kuroda died of illness in 1917 when Takeyuki was eight years old.
After attending Yotsuya's first elementary school in Tokyo and Seibi school in Japan, Takeyuki moved to Tsushima. He entered Izuhara Elementary School in 1918 and Tsushima Junior High School in 1920. When his older cousin, Sō Shigemochi, leader of the Sō clan, died without a son in March 1923, Takeyuki succeeded as the next leader of the Sō clan in October.[2]
After graduating from Tsushima Junior High School, Sō moved to Tokyo in 1925 and enteredGakushūin High School. That same year, his mother died, and as a result, he went under the care of Duke Gujo Michijanae (구조 미치자네, 九条道実).
In 1928, he entered the Department of English Literature at theUniversity of Tokyo and graduated in 1939.
In 1930, he metPrincess Deokhye for the first time at Gujo's mansion. In May 1931, after matchmaking that was performed byEmpress Teimei, the consort ofEmperor Taishō of Japan, he married Deokhye,[3] who was the daughter ofEmperor Gojong of Korea and his concubine,Imperial Consort Boknyeong Gwi-in . Sō and Deokhye had a daughter, Masae (正惠) (Jeonghye (정혜)[4] in Korean), on 14 August 1932.
After the war, he was elected to the House of Peers in a by-election in June 1946. On 2 May 1947, he lost his position due to the enforcement of theConstitution of Japan.
When Japan was defeated inWorld War II, Korea once again became independent and lost its nobility title, asKazoku was abolished. The arranged marriage no longer made sense, and Sō and Deokhye gradually became detached from one another until they divorced in 1953.
His daughter, Masae, graduated fromWaseda University's Department of Literature and met Suzuki Noboru, whom she married in 1955. Having suffered an unhappy marriage, Deokhye's grief was compounded by the loss of their only daughter who disappeared in 1956, who reportedly committed suicide due to the stress of her parents' divorce.
After the divorce, Takeyuki moved toKashiwa,Chiba Prefecture, and remarried in 1955 to a Japanese woman named Katsumura Yoshie and had three children, the eldest being Tatsuhito, who succeeded him as titular head of the So family and Count of Tsushima titles.
Takeyuki Sō died on 22 April 1985 at the age of 77.
In 1932, Sō participated in the moral science class ofChikuro Hiroike. In 1935, at the time of the School of Moral Science's establishment, he was invited by Hiroike to become a lecturer and was in charge of moral science lectures.
In 1936, Sō took charge of English in the main course of the Department of Moral Sciences before resigning as a lecturer in 1940. After that, he studied subjects like English conversation, composition, Latin, Greek, and Italian at home.
In 1944, he became a part-time director of the Cabinet Information Bureau and engaged in English–Japanese translation in the Second Section of the War Materials Room of the President's Secretariat. In July 1945, he was summoned as a second-class soldier and joined the Army's Independent 37th Battalion, transferred to the 83rd Kashiwa Unit.
After 1945, Sō served as a professor and dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies atReitaku University, becoming anemeritus professor in 1978. In 1963, he became a trustee of Hiroike Gakuen and a director of the Institute of Moral Science. In 1970, he became executive director of Hiroike Gakuen. Throughout his life, he worked on poetry and painting, and in 1975 he presided over the poetry magazine Shida.
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