Person1825 – 1883
Iwakura Tomomi
Court noble who engineered the imperial restoration and led the Meiji government’s 1871–1873 embassy to America and Europe
Where they went
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Half of the Meiji leadership spent a year and nine months in the United States and Europe, sounding out revision of the unequal treaties and studying Western institutions and industry.
People who appear alongside
- Ōkubo Toshimichi1830 – 1878
Satsuma statesman who led the early Meiji government, pushing through the abolition of the domains and state-led industry, and opposed invading Korea
- Itō Hirobumi1841 – 1909
First prime minister of Japan who forced the 1905 protectorate treaty and became the first Resident-General; shot by Ahn Jung-geun at Harbin
- Saigō Takamori1828 – 1877
Satsuma leader of the Meiji Restoration who resigned when his call to send a mission to Korea was rejected, and died leading the Satsuma Rebellion
Themes this person appears in
- The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901
From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways