Former Princess Of Japan Mako Works As A Curator
Princess Mako (R), the eldest daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, and her fiancee Kei Komuro (L), smile during a press conference to announce their engagement at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo on September 3, 2017. Emperor Akihito’s eldest granddaughter Princess Mako and her fiancé — a commoner — announced their engagement on September 3, which will cost the princess her royal status in a move that highlights the male-dominated nature of Japan’s monarchy. Shizuo Kambayashi / POOL / AFP
Japan’s former Princess Mako is working as a volunteer at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The former princess who gave up her royal rites to marry her college sweetheart Komuro now lives in New York City.
Mako who is fit for the job earned a degree in art and cultural heritage, also bagging a master’s in Art Museum and Gallery Studies in 2016 at the University of Leicester. A former curator said about her “She’s qualified and probably handling pieces in the collection. In general, it’s work which requires a great deal of preparation and often means spending a lot of time in the library.” Working with curators, she is deeply involved with planning an exhibition inspired by the 13th century monk that travelled to Japan and introduced the people to Buddhism.
The former Princess Mako relinquished all rites as the law in Japan requires that the princess leaves the imperial family after marriage to a commoner.
The former Princess Mako rejected a traditional payout of $1.3 million given by the Japanese government to royal women who relinquish their royal rites when they marry a commoner. Only the male royals can marry a commoner and not relinquish royal rites.
Mako is the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino. Since giving up her royal rites for love, Mako’s future sons cannot be in the line of succession.
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