, son of regent
Kujō Hisatada and adopted son of his brother, Kujō Yukitsune, was a ''
kuge
The was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. The ''kuge'' were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th century until the rise of the Kamakur ...
'' or Japanese court noble of the late
Edo period
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and politician of the early
Meiji era
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912.
The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization b ...
who served as a member of the
House of Peers. One of his daughters,
Sadako married
Emperor Taishō.
He was the maternal grandfather of
Emperor Showa.
In the
bakumatsu period, Kujō supported the
Shogunate
, officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...
policy as one of highest courtier of the imperial court and hence lost the power at the very beginning of Meiji restoration when the annihilation of the Shogunate was announced on 1868-01-03. His right to show at the imperial court was halted. Soon later in the same year he was rehabilitated and appointed of the clan master of
Fujiwara clan
was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...
.
During the
Boshin War
The , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a clique seeking to seize political power in the name of the Imperi ...
, he had nominal leadership of the imperial army's Northern Pacification Command (奥羽鎮撫総督府), and spent the latter part of the war in northern Japan.
He was elevated to
prince
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dom in 1869 as the family head of
Kujō family
is a Japanese aristocratic kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Konoe," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 24 retrieved 2013-8-13. The family is a branch of Hokke a ...
, when the Meiji government founded ''
Kazoku
The was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. They succeeded the feudal lords () and court nobles (), but were abolished with the 1947 constitution.
Kazoku ( 華族) should not be confused with ' ...
'' peerage system.
Family
*Father:
Kujō Hisatada
*Mother: Karahashi Meiko (1796–1881)
*Foster Father: Kujō Yukitsune (1823–1859)
*Wife: Sō Kazuko
*Concubine: Noma Ikuko
*Children:
**Kujo Michizane (1870–1933)
**Noriko (1878–1901) married
Prince Yamashina Kikumaro
, was the second head of the Yamashina-no-miya, a collateral line of the Japanese imperial family.
Early life
Prince Yamashina Kikumaro was the son of Prince Yamashina Akira. His mother was a concubine, Nakajo Chieko, but as Prince Akira had no ...
by Ikuko
**Kujo Sekiyuki
**Kazuko (1882–1911) married
Otani Kozui
**
Empress Teimei married
Emperor Taishō by Ikuko
**Ryuko married Shibutani Ryukyo
**Kinuko married Otani Koaki
Ancestry
References
*
1839 births
1906 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Kujō family
People of the Boshin War
Meiji Restoration
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