Takatsukasa Toshimichi is considered a specialist in mechanical engineering. He was a Japanese researcher of trains.
Background
Takatsukasa Toshimichi was born on August 26, 1923 in Tokyo, Japan. The eldest son of Nobusuke Takatsukasa. He was a descendant of Tokugawa Yoshinao and consequently was born into an aristocratic family, but, like all Japanese aristocrats, lost his title with the post-war legal reforms of 1947.
Career
He worked at TEI Park, a railroad museum in Tokyo.
Personality
On 28 January 1966, Toshimichi Takatsukasa was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning at the apartment of his mistress, Michiko Maeda, a Ginza nightclub hostess, who also died of the same cause. While the official cause of death was attributed to a faulty heater, there was widespread speculation in the Japanese press that it was really a double suicide, caused by his inability to divorce and marry the woman he loved.
Connections
He married the third daughter of Emperor Hirohito, Princess Kazuko, they adopted a son from Ogyū-Matsudaira, Naotake.