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...sidelines: Takako Shimazu, Japanese tourist since yesterday...
...Emperor's five daughters, Princess Teru died in 1961 at the age of 35, and Princess Hisa died within six months of her birth in 1927. Kazuko Takatsukasa, 54, became a Shinto priestess after her husband died; Atsuko Ikeda, 52, is a businessman's wife; and Takako Shimazu, 44, is married to a banker...
...boutiques in the basement of the Tokyo Prince Hotel hired a hand last week whose references needed no checking. Mrs. Takako Shimazu, 31, the new "salon adviser," traces her lineage to no less a luminary than a sun; her father is Japan's Emperor Hirohito. The pretty ex-princess (who lost her title when she married a commoner) is not exactly a newcomer to the rat race. Ten years ago, she turned a fast yen as star of a deejay show on Tokyo radio called-not surprisingly-Princess Time...
Typically plotless, Ohayo derives theme, story and soul from the easy rhythm of middle-class existence. If it has heroes, they are two ebullient rebel schoolboys (Koji Shidara, Masahiko Shimazu), whose chief concerns are watching TV at the home of disreputable neighbors ("who loll around the house in Western-style nightgowns," a mother complains), resisting parental authority in any form, or eating pumice stone because they believe it helps them to break wind voluntarily, an achievement esteemed by their peers. The boys' innocent vulgarity is rooted in a world of gossipy housewives, aged parents clinging to tradition, working fathers...
Born. To Takako Shimazu (formerly Princess Suga of Japan), 23, Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, and Hisanaga Shimazu, 28, her bank-clerk husband: their first child, a boy. Rank: commoner...