Iwakura Tomomi
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Iwakura Tomomi was a Japanese statesman during the Bakumatsu and Meiji period. He was one of the leading figures of the Meiji Restoration, which saw the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, the restor
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The Former Retreat of Tomomi Iwakura (岩倉具視幽棲旧跡) in Iwakura, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. It is open to the public for a fee. The building in the background is Iwakura Hospital.
Iwakura Mission. The head of the mission was Iwakura Tomomi, shown in the picture wearing traditional Japanese clothing of the samurai class including the distinctive hairstyle known as the chonmage.
Iwakura c. 1880s
Ōkubo Toshimichi
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Ōkubo Toshimichi was a Japanese statesman and samurai of the Satsuma Domain. Regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan, he was one of the "Three Great Nobles" who led the Meiji Restoration
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…sent them to the Court or his political companions in Satsuma Domain. For example, in 1865, Iwakura showed 'Sōrimeichū'(叢裡鳴虫), a written opinion, to Ōkubo Toshimichi and Komatsu Tatewaki from Satsuma clans. He used this title to compare himself to an insect in the grasses. Moreover, he sent 'Zoku：Sōrimeichū'(続・叢裡鳴虫…
Ōkubo in 1872
Ōkubo as a young samurai
Ōkubo Toshimichi