Karasumaru Mitsunori

Karasumaru Mitsunori ( Japanese 烏丸 光 徳 ; * August 15, 1832 ( traditionally : Tempō 3/7/20); † August 15, 1873 ) was a Japanese court nobleman , supporter of the Sonnō-jōi movement against the Tokugawa and after the Meiji Restoration of the first governor of Tokyo Prefecture .

Life

Karasumaru was born in Tempō 3 as the son of the court nobleman Karasumaru Mitsumasa ( 烏丸 光 政 ). In the twelfth month of the year Keiō 3 (1867/68) he was appointed as an imperial advisor ( san'yo , the lowest of the three newly created administrative offices of the Meiji government behind sōsai and gijō ). He was sent to the staff of Yamato Province in early 1868 (Keiō 4/1) , later to Osaka , and worked in the military administration ( gunmukan , forerunner of Hyōbu-shō from 1869).

Appointed imperial advisor ( sangi ) on May 14, 1868 , Karasumaru was sent to Edo with Prince Arisugawa Taruhito during the Boshin War . After the surrender of the troops loyal to the Shogun, he worked in the garrison and was appointed governor ( chiji ) of the newly created Edo Prefecture on July 13, 1868 , which was renamed Tokyo by imperial decree in October 1868.

On September 8, 1868, the prefecture administration of Edo / Tokyo was established by merging the northern and southern magistrates ( 市政 裁判 所 , shisei saibansho ), which had replaced the offices of the district magistrates ( 町 奉行 所 , machi-bugyō-sho ) after the conquest of Edo . The seat of the new administration should be the previous residence of the Yanagisawa clan from Kōriyama , Yamato province; the administration only moved there in October due to renovation work.

On December 20, 1868 Karasumaru resigned from the governorship and returned to Kyoto. In October 1896 he was appointed to the Taifu / Daifu ( 大 輔 ) in the imperial court ministry , he resigned on August 11, 1871.

family

Karasumaru's eldest son Mitsuyuki ( 光 亨 ) came into his inheritance and was a count in the Meiji period . His third son Mitsuomi ( 光 臣 ) was adopted by the later Chief Justice Nambu Mikao and was later a member of the manor and governor of Gunma .

literature

• 東京 都 公文 書館 編 『東京 都 職 制 沿革』 東京 都 情報 連絡 室 情報 公開 部 都 民 情報 課 、 1986 年

Web links

• Tōkyō-to kōbunshokan ("Tokyo Prefecture Archives " / Tokyo Metropolitan Archives ): 東京 府 開 庁 ("Establishment of the Tokyo Prefecture Administration") with a portrait of Karasumaru

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Karasumori is the family name, Mitsunori the first name.