悠仁ひさひとさま きょう「成年せいねん式しき」に 19じゅうきゅう歳さいの誕生たんじょう日び

His Imperial Highness Prince Hisahito, the eldest son of Prince and Princess Akishino, will attend his Coming of Age Ceremony on the 6th, his 19th birthday.

It will be the first coming-of-age ceremony for a male member of the Imperial Family in 40 years, since his father, Prince Akishino. First, Prince Hisahito will wear a morning coat and take part in the Kan o tamou no gi at his residence, where he will receive a crown from an envoy of the Emperor.

After that, from 10 a.m., the central ceremony of the coming-of-age celebration, Kakan-no-gi, will be held at the Imperial Palaces palace, where Prince Hisahito, dressed in ceremonial attire as a minor, will don the crown presented by the Emperor.

After the ceremony, the attire is changed to that of an adult, and you are transported by a ceremonial carriage to the Three Palace Sanctuaries, where the imperial ancestors and others are enshrined, to pay your respects.

In the afternoon, he will don formal tailcoat attire and attend the “Choken-no-gi” ceremony in the “Shoden Matsu-no-ma” hall of the Imperial Palace, where he will greet Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress. Afterwards, he will move to the “Omote Gozasho” and participate in the investiture ceremony for the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, a decoration customarily bestowed upon adult male members of the Imperial Family since the postwar period.

After this, they will visit the residence of the Emperor Emeritus and Empress Emerita in the Akasaka Imperial Residence to greet them, and in the evening, they will attend a private celebratory banquet at a hotel in Tokyo, inviting close family members.

The interaction between the Akishino family and the couple began when Prince Hisahito was in elementary school.

It is said that it all started when the Akishino family visited the ski center run by an acquaintance for a vacation.

Mr. Eric looked back on Prince Hisahito’s childhood and said, “He was a bundle of energy.”

When I was at the ski center, it seemed like I just couldnt wait to head out first thing in the morning.

Everyone was desperately trying to keep up with Prince Hisahito skiing, and it was really fun to see some of the Imperial Palace guards, who arent very good at skiing, occasionally fall over, they said.

Naoko-san wants to delve very deeply into things she is interested in.

Normally, people want to sleep in on their days off, but Prince Hisahito would always wake up by himself without oversleeping, and before breakfast, he would go out to catch dragonflies.

The couple also exchanged words shortly after Prince Hisahito, at the age of 18, attended his first press conference as an adult this March.

Eric said about the exchange at that time, I asked, You looked so confident, but where did that confidence come from? and His Imperial Highness Prince Hisahito said, I wrote everything out and practiced it over and over again.

He recalled, Actually, I was really nervous inside.