Tokugawa Iesato
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Prince Tokugawa Iesato was a Japanese aristocrat and politician who was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. He was President of the House of Peer
Prince Tokugawa Iesato
From left to right, Kijūrō Shidehara, Katō Tomosaburō, and Iesato on 3 November 1921, to attend the Washington Naval Conference.
Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1930
Kazoku
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The Kazoku was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. It was formed by merging the feudal lords and court nobles into one system modelled after the British
Tokugawa Iesato
…Prince Tokugawa Iesato (徳川 家達; 24 August 1863 – 5 June 1940) was a Japanese aristocrat and politician who was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the…
The House of Peers in session with Emperor Meiji giving a speech (Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1890)
Prince Tokugawa Iesato, first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the shogunate, was President of the House of Peers from 1903 to 1933.
The interior of the Peers' Club, Tokyo (1912). Unlike Western-style gentlemen's clubs, membership was also open to women.
Japan's first Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi, despite being born the son of an impoverished farmer, he was ennobled as prince.