WOW! The Japanese princess on tour in Hungary – photos

She is on a 6-day-long official visit in Hungary on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of establishing the Japanese-Hungarian diplomatic relations. This is her first official overseas trip.

The Japanese emperor’s niece arrived in Bábolna to see the Equestrian Museum and the National Stud Farm 130 years after ambassadors from Japan came there first to choose horses for the Imperial Court. She was shown documents proving that in some of the Court’s horses are out of Hungarian bloodlines. Princess Kako was accompanied by István Nagy, Minister of Agriculture, during the tour – origo.hu reported.

The princess was shown the terrace from which the emperor’s envoys had surveyed studs to select for the Japanese court to take back in 1889. The princess was also shown the farm’s rose garden and its finest thoroughbreds – Salamat B, Purebred Arabian, Gazal XIX-2 Shagya-Arabian and Firsty, the Thoroughbred – in the riding hall.

István Nagy added that at the end of the 19th century, the Japanese Imperial Court’s horses took part in horse races in Budapest and even today some Japanese students study to become jockeys in Hungary.

The niece of Emperor Naruhito visited the Herend Porcelain Manufacture and Museum, as well, and the Benedictine Abbey and Museum on the Balaton peninsula in Tihany. In the latter, the 24-year-old princess was welcomed by prior Jeromos Mihályi. After visiting the church, they walked to the mirador admiring the panorama of the Lake Balaton.