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    Iwakura Tomomi (岩倉 具視, October 26, 1825 – July 20, 1883) was a Japanese statesman during the Bakumatsu and Meiji period. He was one of the leading figures...
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    The Iwakura Mission or Iwakura Embassy (岩倉使節団, Iwakura Shisetsudan) was a Japanese diplomatic voyage to the United States and Europe conducted between...
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  • contain a Shinto kami Iwakura Dam, a dam in Urugi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan Iwakura-ike Dam, a dam in Kochi Prefecture, Japan Iwakura Tomomi (1825–1883), Japanese...
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    Conference and pushed for constitutional government. Also prominent were Iwakura Tomomi (1825–83), a Kyoto native who had opposed the Tokugawa and was to become...
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  • Kido Takayoshi of the Chōshū Domain, with the backing of court nobles Iwakura Tomomi and Sanjō Sanetomi. Kido persuaded the lords of Chōshū and of Satsuma...
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  • types of note. Only the last two have a known design which feature Iwakura Tomomi on the obverse, and Mount Fuji on the reverse. Starting in 1982, new...
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    regained some of its lost status. Several members of the kuge, such as Iwakura Tomomi and Nakayama Tadayasu, played a crucial role in the overthrow of the...
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    draft committee included Inoue Kowashi, Kaneko Kentarō, Itō Miyoji and Iwakura Tomomi, along with a number of foreign advisors, in particular the German legal...
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    ice hockey player Tomomi Iwakura (岩倉 具視, 1825–1883), Japanese politician Tomomi Kahara (華原 朋美, born 1974), Japanese pop singer Tomomi Kai (甲斐 智美, born...
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    completed in 1880, only to have the draft rejected by Itō Hirobumi and Iwakura Tomomi as being too liberal. The Genrōin was replaced by the Imperial Diet...
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    and win financial support for the new government. Japan dispatched the Iwakura Mission in 1871. The mission traveled the world in order to renegotiate...
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    being given such a masterpiece, and had passed it down to statesman Iwakura Tomomi. Soon after seeing it passed from hand to hand throughout the 20th Century...
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    technology, a great expedition around the globe was organized, led by Iwakura Tomomi. In England, he held fruitful talks with Lord Granville, British Foreign...
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    without a fight. By this time he had acquired an Imperial banner made by Iwakura Tomomi, featuring a sun and moon on a red field. Other Samurai did not want...
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    intrigues plotted by Satsuma and the court nobles who supported it, such as Iwakura Tomomi. The 15,000-strong shogunal army outnumbered the Satsuma–Chōshū army...
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    building December 1, 1953 August 1, 1974 ¥500 156 × 76 mm Dark blue Iwakura Tomomi Mount Fuji April 2, 1951 January 4, 1971 ¥1000 164 × 76 mm Grey Prince...
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    execution. This clemency derives from the insistence of Saigō Takamori and Iwakura Tomomi, although much weight was placed on the advice of Parkes, the British...
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    2022)* * : Awarded with the Grand Cordon Sanjō Sanetomi (11 April 1882) Iwakura Tomomi (1 November 1882) Shimazu Hisamitsu (5 November 1887) Nakayama Tadayasu...
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    but was subsequently destroyed. It was later restored by Sen Shōan. Iwakura Tomomi was famously sheltered here towards the end of the Edo Period. Shōnan-tei...
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    Meiji, attended by a hundred persons including Prince Arisugawa and Iwakura Tomomi visited the Printing Bureau and Chiossone's working room (destroyed...
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  • 1890 and his dismissal from government. Rejecting the British model, Iwakura Tomomi and other conservatives borrowed heavily from the Prussian constitutional...
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  • to absorb as much of it as possible. The Iwakura Mission, the most important one, was led by Iwakura Tomomi, Kido Takayoshi and Ōkubo Toshimichi, contained...
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    charge of the problem. In a meeting of the legislature that winter, Iwakura Tomomi proposed deliberation over the court dress for governmental officials...
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    isolation. In 1873, a Japanese embassy to Europe (the Iwakura mission) headed by Iwakura Tomomi heard for the first time of the travels of Hasekura when...
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    half of the 19th century and the early 20th century like Itō Hirobumi, Iwakura Tomomi, Sanjō Sanetomi, Mutsu Munemitsu, Terauchi Masatake, and other influential...
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    constitutions with Inoue's own commentary, which he submitted to Iwakura Tomomi. Iwakura recognized Inoue's talent and assigned him to work on the project...
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  • Nakamura Fukusuke IX as Emperor Kōmei – the 121st emperor Yūji Nakamura as Iwakura Tomomi Others Yasuko Sawaguchi as Okita Mitsu - Okita Sōji's eldest sister...
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    executing all troop members would further inflame anti-foreign sentiment Iwakura Tomomi, Sanjō Sanetomi and others instructed the foreign secretariat judge...
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  • Matsui's film) is misidentified by Duus and Matsui as Tomoharu Iwakura (grandson of Iwakura Tomomi); the student, named Iwamura according to Gilmour, was presumably...
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    Kido Takayoshi (category Members of the Iwakura Mission)
    Kido Takayoshi (木戸 孝允) in 1869. On 23 December 1871, he accompanied the Iwakura Mission on its round-the-world voyage to America and Europe, and was especially...
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