Hachisuka Mochiaki

Hachisuka Mochiaki

Hachisuka Mochiaki ( Japanese 蜂 須 賀茂韶 ; born September 28, 1846 in Tokyo ; † February 10, 1918 ) was a diplomat and statesman in the Empire of Japan , who held numerous government offices and in 1884 as margrave (Kōshaku) raised to hereditary nobility ( Kazoku ) has been. Among other things, he was governor of Tokyo between 1890 and 1891 and president of the mansion ( Kizokuin ) , the upper house of the Reichstag, from 1891 to 1896 (Teikoku-gikai) . He then served as Minister of Education in the Matsukata II cabinet between 1896 and 1897 .

Life

Hachisuka Mochiaki was the second son of Hachisuka Narihiro, who from 1843 to 1868 as a daimyo rulers of Tokushima domain and head of Hachisuka Klan was and a grandson of Tokugawa Ienari , the 1786 to 1837 of the 11th  shogun of the Edo period was . After his father's death in 1868, he became head of the Hachisuka clan and governor of the Tokushima domain. He took over in the course of the Meiji Restoration (Taisei Hōkan) , the restoration of political power to Tennō Meiji , the office of head of administration (Gijō) and thus one of the highest offices of the new government. After the return of the land and the residents to the emperor, the so-called " Hanseki Hōkan ", he became governor of Tokushima Prefecture in 1869 . Subsequently, he was in 1872 to study at the University of Oxford in the UK United sent and acted on his return in 1879 from July to September 1879 as the first president of the insurer Tokyo Marine Insurance and after a brief work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimu-shō) between 1880 and 1882 as head of the customs department in the Ministry of Finance (ōkura-shō) .

After a brief period as a member of the advisory body of the legislature (Sanjiin) between May and December 1882, Hachisuka Mochiaki was from December 1882 to June 1887 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in France . At the same time he was accredited as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Belgium , Portugal , Switzerland and Spain between 1883 and 1887 . During this time he was raised in 1884 as margrave (Kōshaku) in the hereditary nobility ( Kazoku ) . After his return he was in June 1887 member of the council of elders ( Genrōin ) and in 1890 member of the manor ( Kizokuin ) , the upper house of the Reichstag (Teikoku-gikai) . As the successor to Takasaki Goroku, he held the post of governor of Tokyo from May 19, 1890 until his replacement by Tomita Tetsunosuke on July 21, 1891 .

Subsequently, Hachisuka Mochiaki replaced Itō Hirobumi on July 21, 1891 as President of the Manor (Kizokuin) and held this office for five years until October 3, 1896, whereupon Konoe Atsumaro succeeded him. He then served as Minister of Education (monbukyō) in the Matsukata II cabinet from September 28, 1896 to November 6, 1897 . After leaving the government, he finally became a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Sūmitsu-in ) on November 6, 1897 , to which he belonged until his death on February 10, 1918. He was also a landowner in Hokkaido and promoter of traditional verse form haiku and the theater Noh . After his death, his son Hachisuka Masaaki , who was vice-president of the manor between 1924 and 1931 , inherited the title of margrave.

Web links

• Entry in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
• The Governments of Japan 1885-1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matsukata II cabinet

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hachisuka is the family name, Mochiaki the first name.