However, even before Meiji period, it was customary that misfortunes happened in the imperial family were concealed for a while not only during wartime but also during peacetime and thus the case of Prince Yoshihisa was not special.
しかし、戦時中に限らず皇族の凶事がしばらく秘匿されるのは明治以前からの慣習であり、なにも能久親王が特別のことではなかった。