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Sayyida Buthaina bint Taimur Al Said (Arabic: بثينة بنت تيمور آل سعيد; born 10 October 1937) is a member of the Omani royal family. She is the daughter of Sultan Taimur bin Faisal and Kiyoko Oyama, the half-sister of Sultan Said bin Taimur, and the paternal aunt of Sultan Qaboos bin Said and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq.
Buthaina bint Taimur Al Said
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Born | Kobe, Japan | 10 October 1937||||
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Japanese | 節子 (Setsuko) | ||||
House | Al Bu Sa'id | ||||
Father | Taimur bin Feisal | ||||
Mother | Kiyoko Oyama | ||||
Religion | Ibadi Islam |
Sayyida Buthaina, also known as Setsuko (節子), was born on 10 October 1937 in Kobe, Japan to Sultan Taimur bin Feisal and his fifth wife, Kiyoko Oyama.[1] She has five half-brothers from her father's other marriages: Sultan Said bin Taimur, Sayyid Majid bin Taimur, Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur, Sayyid Fahr bin Taimur, and Sayyid Shabib bin Taimur.[2]
In 1935, Sultan Taimur, then 47, met a Kiyoko Oyama (Japanese: 大山清子), then 19, at a dance hall in Kobe.[3] He had heard stories about Japan from Shiga Shigetaka when he was in Oman in 1924 and after Taimur abdicated the throne in 1932 he decided to visit the country.[4][5]
Sultan Taimur returned to Japan the next year and married Kiyoko Oyama on 5 May 1936 at Akashi. He went back to Oman briefly to close his household there and returned to Japan on 18 September 1936. The couple lived in a mansion in Kobe's Fukiai-ku ward.[6]
Kiyoko contracted tuberculosis and was in and out of the hospital until her death in November 1939.[7] Taimur had sent Buthaina to live with her maternal relatives so she would not catch the disease while he lived in Bombay, India.[3] He returned in May 1940 to bury his wife at Inami and then left Japan for the last time taking Buthaina with him.[3]
After briefly staying in Karachi, Sultan Taimur brought Buthaina to Oman where she was placed under the care of his first wife, Sayyida Fatima bint Ali Al Said.[6] Sultan Taimur continued to live in Bombay and only saw his daughter once more in 1945 when his visited Oman before his death in 1965.[3]
In 1978, Buthaina, accompanied by Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur, visited Japan so that she could visit her mother's grave.[3] She also met with her maternal relatives and visited her previous home. It was noted at the time that she no longer could speak Japanese.[8]
Sayyida Buthaina bint Taimur now lives in Muscat. She is married and has a son that works for Oman Air.[6]
Buthaina and her mother, Kiyoko Oyama, have been the subject of two Fuji TV specials in Japan: an episode of Unbelievable in 2016[9] and an episode of The Nonfiction in 2018[10]
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