Background
Princess Atsuko was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
池田厚子順宮厚子内親王池田隆政
Princess Atsuko was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
She graduated from the Gakushuin Peer’s School, and was also tutored along with her siblings in English language by an American tutor, Elizabeth Grey Vining during the American occupation of Japan following World World War World War II
As such, she is the older sister to Emperor Akihito. Her childhood appellation was Yori-no-miya (順宮). She graduated Gakushuin University Women"s College in March 1952.
On 10 October 1952, Princess Yori married Ikeda Takamasa, the eldest son of former Marquis Nobumasa Ikeda and a direct descendant of the last daimyō of Okayama Domain, whom she had met at a Japanese tea ceremony at Kōraku-en gardens.
In October 1988, Ikeda succeeded her ailing elder sister, Kazuko Takatsukasa, as the most sacred priestess (saishu) of the Ise Shrine. The Ikedas had no children.
7 March 1931 – 10 October 1952: Her Imperial Highness The Princess Yori
10 October 1952 – present: Mistress Takamasa Ikeda.