TOnow it is indeed a “commoner”. Or rather, a neo-bourgeois. Mako of Japan, a former princess, found a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. City where she moved last fall, after her wedding with Kei Komuro, her great love of her life.
For which renounced his title and assets of $ 1.3 million, traditionally delivered to those who lose royal status to marry a bourgeois. It is therefore not surprising that the former princess needs to start working.
Mako of Japan: a job at the Met in New York
According to reports from the Japan TimesMako takes care of the museum’s Asian art collectionand was involved in setting up an exhibition of paintings inspired by the life of a 13th-century monk who traveled throughout Japan spreading Buddhism. Voluntary work, and therefore unpaid. But not subtracted just because he is formerly real. Mako is indeed well prepared for the job, and the resume clearly demonstrates this.
Prepared for the assignment
She graduated in Art and Cultural Heritage from International Christian University, where love with Kei Komuro was born. Furthermore, studied Art History at the Scottish University of Edinburgh and, in 2016, he obtained the master in Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester.
Not only that, when she was still a royal, she worked as a special researcher at the Tokyo University Museum. “You are qualified,” a former Met curator tells the magazine People. “It’s a job that requires a lot of preparation and often means spending a lot of time in the library.”
Love with Kei and new life in New York
The eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino she got engaged to Komuro in 2013. Now that they’re married, while she’s at the Met he works in a law firm in town. A kind of life that has always been Mako’s dream: “What I would like is just to lead a peaceful life in my new environment“.
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No sooner said than done. From the luxury apartment in Manhattan it just takes ten minutes by car to reach the Met. So abandoned the realm, Mako’s new life is a commuter’s tale.
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