Born as , the 4th son of
Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, he was the younger brother of
Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi,
Prince Kachō Hirotada and Marquis
Kachō Hironobu. In October 1932, he served as a member of the
House of Peers in the
Diet of Japan. On 1 April 1936, by order of Emperor
Hirohito, he was allowed to establish his own household after renouncing his imperial title, and was created a count (
hakushaku) under the
kazoku peerage system. The same year, he married Toyoko Yanagisawa (29 October 1917 – 14 November 1939), younger daughter of Count Yanagisawa Yasutsugu, with whom he had three daughters. After the death of his wife, he remarried in 1942 to Sadako Kuroda (born 1 June 1915), only daughter of Baron Kuroda Nagatoshi, with whom he had another daughter. A graduate of the 62nd class of the
Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Fushimi Hirohide opted to pursue a military career, and rose to the rank of
lieutenant commander. During World War II, on 21 August 1943 while serving with the IJN 3rd Combined Communications Brigade, he was killed in action when his aircraft was shot down over the
Gulf of Boni,
Sulawesi in the
Netherlands East Indies. His grave is located at
Aoyama Cemetery in
Tokyo. ==Descendants==