To marry the man who loved the (ex) princess Mako of Japan has renounced all noble titles, also refusing the severance pay of about one million and 100 thousand euros which, according to the rules of the Chrysanthemum Throne, the Emperor grants the women of the Dynasty forced to leave their families in case of bourgeois marriage.
It is therefore not surprising that the new Mrs. Komuro is looking for a job. And she found him at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: according to what the Japan Timesthe former princess is now assistant to the curators of the museum’s Asian collections. For the moment, the newspaper writes, it is a unpaid employmentbut things may change in the future, given that Mako Komuro she has already personally taken care of the organization and setting up of one exhibition of paintings inspired by the life of a 13th century monk who introduced the Buddhism in Japan.
“She’s certainly very qualified,” said a former Met curator People. «This is a job that requires a deep basic preparation but also a continuous training, since you have to spend a lot of time in the library to study».
And indeed the former princess is definitely on the subject titled: in addition to having already had aexperience as a researcher at the University Art Museum in Tokyo, boasts a master’s degree in Museology and Museography at the University of Leicester, e two degrees in art history and cultural heritage earned at the University of Edinburgh and International Christian University, iThe “convict” college where she and Kei Komuro met and fell in love in 2012.
Mako of Japan and her husband Kei Komuro Nicolas Datiche – Pool / Getty Images
Love had withstood even the long periods spent at a distance for study reasons, and in 2017 Mako and Kei were officially engaged. The wedding was expected shortly but has been postponed several times: first for alleged financial woes of his motherwho to support his son’s studies would have borrowed money without ever repaying it, then due to the doubts and discontent of the imperial family who feared that Kei was just a dowry huntertherefore for the pandemic who advised against any ceremony, and finally for the post traumatic stress disorder that hit Mako itself.
In the end, though love has triumphed And Mako and Kei got married in a very confidential and not very solemn ceremony in October 2021. Soon after they flew to New York where is he, handsome career lawyerworks for a major Manhattan law firm as a legal assistant.
The couple now live in a two-room apartmentdefinitely far from the imperial splendor, but certainly happierbecause it is free to live the life she has chosen.
Source: Vanity Fair
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