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	Iwakura Tomomi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tomomi Iwakura (岩倉具視 Iwakura Tomomi) (October 26, 1825-July 20, 1883) was a statesman who played an important role in the Meiji restoration, influencing opinions of the Imperial Court.
		In Iwakura he wrote many opinions and sent them to the Court or his political companions in Satsuma han.
		In 1871, he became minister of state of Japan, and in the same year set out on a two-year journey known as the Iwakura mission, visiting the United States and several countries in Europe with the purpose of renegotiating treaties and gathering information to help effect the modernization of Japan.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iwakura_Tomomi (516 words)

	Professionally wirtten biography of Tomomi Iwakura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Japanese statesman Tomomi Iwakura (1825-1883) played a key role in bringing about the Meiji restoration of 1868 and is best known as the leader of a mission of government leaders to the West.Tomomi Iwakura was born into the family of a lower-ranking court noble on Sept. 15, 1825, in Kyoto.
		In spite of his relatively low rank, Iwakura became a personal confidant and adviser of Emperor Komei because of his devotion to the cause of restoring the Emperor to power.
		Iwakura was highly conservative in outlook; his most important achievement was to advocate the establishment of a new constitutional order on the Prussian model: the promulgation of a constitution by the emperor, the vesting of most state powers in the imperial institution, and the assignment of a weak role to the popularly elected legislature.
	www.sayessay.com /biographies/Tomomi_Iwakura-34340.html (331 words)

	International
		Iwakura Tomomi (1825-83), the defacto leader of the Meiji government, led this mission of almost fifty people as the Chief Ambassador, and visited fifteen Western countries, starting in December, 1871.
		Iwakura was a court nobleman from Kyoto rather than from the samurai elite.
		Iwakura showed the same concern in his writing to Sir Harry Parkes, the British minister, in October, 1873: "Much is said about progress but I find our progress is more superficial than real and that our recent administration is wanting in earnestness and permanence.
	www.oycf.org /Perspectives/1_083199/international.htm (2719 words)

	Meiji Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The new constitution was adopted as part of the Meiji Renewal, a period of sweeping political and social reform aimed at modernising Japan, so that she might reach a par with the nations of the Western world.
		Rejecting the British constitution as a model, influential conservatives such as Iwakura Tomomi borrowed heavily from the Prussian constitution in drafting a fundamental law.
		Ito Hirobumi, a Choshu native long involved in government affairs, was charged with drafting Japan's constitution, and announced in 1881 that the task would be finished within a decade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meiji_Constitution (1220 words)

	Iwakura Tomomi -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He was born to the family of a court noble of relatively low rank.
		Adopted as son and heir of the more powerful Iwakura family, he gained an important place in court circles after the U.S. naval officer Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853 succeeded in forcing Japan to allow foreigners to enter…
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	KSU: Student Support
		Women's dorm, in Iwakura, east of KSU (12 rokujo and 7 yojo-han rooms).
		Iwakura is one of those places in Kyoto where it is easy to observe layers of successive development.
		Historic sites such as Jisso-in temple and Meiji-era statesman Iwakura Tomomi’s house are reached through old and winding narrow streets lined with old walled farmhouse compounds and their white kura storehouses, among still-cultivated rice-fields.
	www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp /eng/5_support/fujimura.htm (155 words)

	Ancient Japan - 9
		Knowledge was to be sought in the West, the goodwill of which was essential for revising the unequal treaties.
		In 1871 Iwakura Tomomi led a large number of government officials on a mission to the United States and Europe.
		At odds with Iwakura and Okubo, who insisted on domestic reform over risky foreign ventures, Itagaki Taisuke and several fellow samurai from Tosa and Saga left the government in protest, calling for a popularly elected assembly so that future decisions might reflect the will of the people--by which they largely meant the former samurai.
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	Satsuma Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, Iwakura, Kido, and other leaders opposed to this were overseas in America, and the militarists took advantage of that.
		The decision for war was made in the summer of 1873, but when Iwakura and the rest returned, they organized a large rebuttal, and ended up getting the decision vetoed.
		Shortly after Saigō's withdrawal from the government, samurai in Hizen rebelled, and a small band of samurai attempted to assassinate Iwakura Tomomi.
	www.willamette.edu /~cgrady/events.html (430 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iwakura, Tomomi, Prince (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Iwakura, Tomomi, Prince (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Iwakura, Tomomi, Prince[tOmO´mE EwA´kOOrA] Pronunciation Key, 1825–83, Japanese statesman.
		A court noble, he supported the Meiji restoration and became a minister of state (1871–83).
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	iwakura tomomi prince - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Iwakura, Tomomi, Prince : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
		IWAKURA, TOMOMI, PRINCE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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	Encyclopedia: Iwakura mission
		Li Narangoa, Japan's Modernization – The Iwakura Mission to Scandinavia in 1873
		The Iwakura Mission in Britain, 1872 (http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/is/IS349.pdf) London School of Economics STICERD discussion paper IS/98/349 (March 1998)
		The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment, edited by Ian Nish, published by Routledge/Curzon; 1st edition (October 23, 1998) ISBN 1873410840
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iwakura-mission (664 words)

	The facade of constitutional democracy in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The peace faction was led by members of the Iwakura mission who had been impressed by the strength of Western countries that they had visited.
		The disgruntled militarists who had withdrawn from the imperial government saw a popularly elected national parliament as a means for them to regain political influence, particularly over foreign policy, and together with other disgruntled former samurai, they agitated strongly for one.
		In the course of this agitation, an attempt was made to assassinate Iwakura Tomomi who was one of the leaders of the peace faction in the imperial government.
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	Interwar Japan
		Kido Koin (1833- 77), a native of Choshu, student of Yoshida Shoin, and coconspirator with Okubo and Saigo, became minister of education and chairman of the Governors' 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 the first ambassador to the United States, and Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922), of Hizen, a student of Rangaku, Chinese, and English, who held various ministerial portfolios, eventually becoming prime minister in 1898.
		He called for elections to be held by 1882 and for a national assembly to be convened by 1883; in doing so, he precipitated a political crisis that ended with an 1881 imperial rescript declaring the establishment of a national assembly in 1890 and dismissing Okuma.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/IntJapan.html (8730 words)

	Iwakura, Tomomi \| Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
		Noble and statesman, born in Kyoto as a son of Gonnochunagon Yasuchika Horikawa.
		He was adopted by Tomoyoshi Iwakura as his heir.
		In 1854, he became jiju (chamberlain) to the Emperor Komei.
	www.ndl.go.jp /portrait/e/datas/23.html (191 words)

	Let's Make Acid Rain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In search of a solution to a diplomatic problem in Korea, offered his services as envoy to that country and was so approved in Cabinet.
		However, he was brought down by a conspiracy of Iwakura Tomomi and Okubo Toshimichi.
		These two returned from an observation tour of Western countries determined to persuade the government to make industrialization its top priority.
	www.jsf.or.jp /sln/acid_e/saigou01.html (395 words)

	Meiji period
		The Iwakura Tomomi Mission of 1871 had a huge impact on the arts in Japan.
		A group of government officials traveled all over the US and Europe with the aim of changing the unfair treaties and studying western administration systems.
		He was a romantic painter whose work had been heavily criticized in Italy for being too romantic.
	www.euronet.nl /users/artnv/meiji.html (4814 words)

	Princeton - PWB 101998 - Record of a journey, Translators and Japanese colleagues retrace route
		Record of a Journey of Observation to America and Europe chronicles the 1872 mission of Tomomi Iwakura, Japanese Prime Minister and Special Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the United States and beyond.
		Written by Kunitake Kume, a member of Iwakura's retinue, the narrative offers Western scholars a wealth of commentary and observation from an Asian perspective.
		"The Iwakura embassy steamed out of Yokohama on December 19, 1871," says Collcutt.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/98/1019/journey.htm (1201 words)

	The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873 : A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journal of ...
		The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873 : A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journal of Observation Through the United States of America and Europe
		This embassy of some fifty top officials was headed by Iwakura Tomomi and included such luminaries as Ito Hirobumi and Kido Takayoshi.
		The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journal of Observation Through the United States of America and Europe
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	The Doshisha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this letter to the Hardys, Neesima describes his experiences in the first few days after arriving in Washington.
		I arrived at the capital safely yesterday morning and was cordially received by Mr.
		I have not seen Iwakura [Tomomi], the chief ambassador, but had a pleasant interview with his secretary [TANABE Taichi], who was a friend of two of my best Japanese friends at home, and found out all about them.
	muse2.doshisha.ac.jp /kkitao/doshisha/letter/3-8-72.htm (1258 words)

	EconPapers: The Iwakura Mission in Britain, 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Comprising four lectures the symposium was attended by a packed audience of some 75 people including the Joint Chairman and many members of the Japan Society, several senior representatives of the Japanese Embassy, as well as staff and students.
		Keywords: Iwakura misson; Victorian London; Kume Kunitake; Iwakura Tomomi; Ito Hirobumi; education; industry; exports; religion; Kairan Jikki chronicle; Meiji government; unequal treaties; embassy; 1872; Britain; Japan; America.
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	What about iwakura? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		PubMed Articles by Iwakura, A. Articles by Komeda, M. Atsushi Iwakura, MD ; Yasuhiko Tabata, PhD ; Nobushige Tamura, MD ; Kazuhiko Doi, MD.
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	The Meiji Era and the Modernization of Japan...Part 2
		To do this, the Meiji oligarchs set off on an around the world junket in 1871 known as the Iwakura Mission, named for the head of the delegation, Iwakura Tomomi.
		They spent several months each in the United States, England and Europe, and studied everything they encountered from banking systems to zoos.
		Several students, including young children, were a part of the Iwakura Mission.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/oriental_history/17921 (611 words)

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		Iwakura (ed) 1994, Prima e dopo la Missione Iwakura.
		Miyashita 1982, 'Firenze nel Diario della visita in America e in Europa dell'ambasciatore plenipotenziario giapponese, con incarichi speciali, Iwakura Tomomi (18711876)', in Atti del Quinto Convegno di Studi Giapponesi (Firenze: Aistugia)
		Miyashita 1985, 'Lombardia e la città di Venezia nel Diario della visita in America e in Europa dell'ambasciatore plenipotenziario giapponese, con incarichi speciali, Iwakura Tomomi (18711873)', in Atti del Settimo Convegno di Studi Giapponesi (Firenze: Aistugia)
	www.oriental.cam.ac.uk /jbib/For2-8.html (240 words)

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		The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873 : A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journal of Observation Through the United States of America and Europe (Hardcover)
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		Of even greater significance is George Haven Putnam's brief account on his numerous acquaintances and close friendships with high-powered Japanese from Japan's political and cultural scene.
		Putnam had met Itô Hirobumi and Iwakura Tomomi during their stopover in the United States before Iwakura began his ambassadorship in London.
		On behalf of Iwakura, Itô had asked Putnam for the delivery of all available books on international law, a request to which Putnam readily obliged.
	etext.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH39/reinho39.html (9774 words)

	Talk:Meiji Restoration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Is there anyone knowledgeable enough about the Iwakura Mission to write something about it?
		(It was a 2-year journey to the USA and Europe headed by Iwakura Tomomi intended to study the West from different perspectives to gather ideas to help modernize Japan).
		This page was last modified 00:18, 10 Nov 2004.
	www.voyager.in /Talk:Meiji_Restoration (575 words)

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