Princess Mako, grandson of the 126th Emperor of Japan Naruhito, has finally seen her betrothed, the bourgeois Kei Komuro. The two, that Tuesday October 26 will become husband and wife, they had not met for three years. That is, since he had left for the States to complete his university studies as a lawyer. Thirty-year-old Kei returned to Japan in early October. But only today, after the quarantine period made necessary by Covid, was he able to visit Akasaka Palace the parents of the betrothed, the crown prince. Fumihito and his wife, the princess Kiko. As reported by local newspapers, including the Japan Times, Kei came out of his mother’s house in Tokyo laden with bags. Probably full of gifts, for the in-laws and for the bride-to-be with whom, in the last three years, he has only been able to have telephone contacts.
The distance, however, has not extinguished a love born and continued among a thousand impediments. It was September 3, 2017 when the imperial agency announced the official engagement, resulting in a wedding in the short term. In February 2018, however, the couple postponed the happy event explaining that he wanted to take more time to “think more deeply about marriage.” The wedding slipped again in 2019, this time due to the bad financial situation of Komuro’s mother. Now everything is ready for the wedding. But on October 26 it will not be a national holiday. On the contrary. Mako and Kei’s love oath will take place in an atmosphere of public disapproval. And of attacks of the press on the future spouse, guilty of not having not even a drop of blue blood.
Precisely for this the moment in which he says “yes” the 29-year-old Mako she will no longer be a princess. The inflexible rules of the Chrysanthemum Throne stipulate that women of the imperial family who marry an ordinary mortal are deprived of royal titles. The father of Mako, Crown Prince Fumihito, in recent years he has hardly hidden his bad mood for a union that will deprive his daughter of imperial titles. Mako’s mother, Crown Princess Kiko, just recently made it known that she wants respect your daughter’s feelings “as much as possible”. Not exactly the phrase one would expect from a mother about to see her daughter’s dream of love come to an end.
Given the current air, everyone expects Mako and Kei’s weddings to be very different from other Japanese royal weddings ». There shouldn’t be the traditional official betrothal ceremony, nor the solemn meeting with Mako’s uncle, Emperor Naruhito, before the “yes”. The ceremony should take place in a very private way, in the Tokyo municipality, without any fanfare. Therefore the bride and groom yes they will move to New York, where Komuro got a job in a major law firm.
Yesterday Mako fulfilled one of his last imperial duties. Together with her younger sister Kako, she went to the Royal Palace in central Tokyo and visited the shrine of Kashikodokoro, dedicated to the deity Amaterasu, to offering the new rice crop. After October 26, a new chapter of life will open for her, far from real obligations. Finally free, like any other person.
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