Ueki Emori

Ueki Emori

Ueki Emori ( Japanese 植 木 枝 盛 ; born February 14, 1857 in Tosa Province (now Kōchi Prefecture ); died January 23, 1892 ) was a Japanese thinker and politician during the Meiji period .

life and work

Ueki Emori was born the son of a samurai in the Tosa domain. He studied at the Han School Chidōkan (致 道 館) and in 1873 briefly in Tokyo. He came under the influence of Itagaki Taisuke and supported him in the organization of political groups such as the Risshi-sha (立志 社), the Aikoku-sha (愛国 社), the Kokkai Kisei Dōmei (国会 期 成 同盟) and finally with the establishment of the Liberal Party (自由 党, Jiyū-tō) , the first political party in Japan.

In 1879 he wrote a popular essay entitled "On the rights of the people and their freedom" (民 権 自由 論, Minken jiū ron), in which he describes the naturally given human rights, the rights of people to political participation and the necessity represented a constitution. In 1881 he wrote a draft constitution, the Tōyō Dai-Nihonkoku Kokken-an , with which he campaigned for the sovereignty of the people, for a unicameral system and for the right to vote for taxpayers.

Ueki was the editor of the newspaper Jiyū Shimbun (自由 新聞), the organ of the Liberal Party. He won a seat in the first parliamentary election in 1890, but then died suddenly two years later at the age of 35.

literature

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

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