Tani Tateki

Tani Tateki

Tani Tateki ( Japanese 谷 干 城 , first name also read Kanjō ; born March 18, 1837 in the province of Tosa ; died March 13, 1911 ) was a Japanese general and politician of the Meiji period .

Life

Tani fought against the Bakufu in the Boshin War and then worked for reforming the Han system until he joined the War Ministry. During the campaigns of the 1870s, he held Kumamoto Castle for months against the siege of the Satsuma rebels. He rose within the army, became a general and then head of the military academy. However, he resigned from this post due to a disagreement with Yamagata Aritomo . In 1881 he founded the conservative party Chūseitō with the military man Torio Koyata ( 鳥 尾 小 弥 太 ; 1847-1905). From 1884 Tani became director of the Gakushūin , the training center for aristocrats, then took over the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade from 1885 to 1886, which he gave up again because he was against the "excessive" policy of adopting Western ideas such as Inoue Kaoru represented.

In 1890 Tani became a member of the House of Lords, where he constantly opposed the "betrayal" of the Japanese national idea, which also included a rejection of the Russo-Japanese War. Tani was one of the first bureaucrats to advocate the motto “agriculture as the foundation [of the nation]” as the basis for military strength, for self-sufficiency, in the hope of strengthening resistance to dangerous ideas. He remained an opponent of the civil rights movement throughout his life.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Tani Tateki. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , pp. 608-609.
• Janet Hunter: Tani Kanjō. In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984, ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ S. Noma (ed.): Tani Tateki. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993.

Remarks

1. ↑ "Agriculture as a basis", the Nōhonshugi ( 農 本 主義 ) was in particular by Yokoi Tokiyoshi ( 横 井 時 敬 ; 1860-1927), u. a. first president of the private agricultural university Tokyo and then of Katō Kanji (1884-1965) a. a. represented.

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