Former princess of the imperial family. Born in Rome as the second daughter of Marquis NABESHIMA Naohiro and entered the Peeresses’ School at the age of 7. She married NASHIMOTONOMIYA Morimasa, the fourth prince of KUNINOMIYA Asahiko, in 1900. She was known as the belle of high society. She left the imperial family in 1947. She had a younger sister, MATSUDAIRA Nobuko, and a daughter, Li Masako, who married into the Li Dynasty.