Iwakura Tomomi

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Iwakura Tomomi was a key Japanese statesman of the late Edo and early Meiji periods who played a central role in the Meiji Restoration and Japan’s early modernization and diplomacy.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese statesman
Meiji Restoration leader
court noble
diplomat
human
birthDate 1825-10-26
birthPlace Kyoto, Japan
burialPlace Kyoto, Japan
clan Iwakura family
commemoratedBy statues in Kyoto
commemoratedIn Japanese history textbooks
countryOfCitizenship Japan
deathDate 1883-07-20
deathPlace Kyoto, Japan
endTimeOfIwakuraMissionLeadership 1873
era early Meiji period
late Edo period
familyName Iwakura NERFINISHED
givenName Tomomi
honor Order of the Chrysanthemum
influenced formation of Meiji Constitution framework
modern Japanese education policy
modern Japanese legal system
leaderOf Iwakura Mission
name Iwakura Tomomi
nativeName 岩倉具視
nobleRank kugyō
notableFor Iwakura Mission
central role in the Meiji Restoration
foreign diplomacy
leadership in early Meiji government
modernization of Japan
politicalAlignment pro-Imperial court
positionHeld Dajō-daijin
Gijō (Council of State) leader
Imperial court councillor
Udaijin
purposeOfIwakuraMission renegotiate unequal treaties
study Western institutions
religion Shinto
roleInMeijiRestoration mediated between court and domains
supported overthrow of Tokugawa shogunate
servedMonarch Emperor Kōmei
Emperor Meiji
startTimeOfIwakuraMissionLeadership 1871
traveledTo France
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
United States


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