Michitaka Kujo

Japanese: 九条道孝 - くじょう・みちたか

Year of death: January 4, 1906 (Meiji 39)
Year of birth: Tenpo 10.5.1 (1839.6.11)
A member of the peerage (former court nobles) during the late Edo and Meiji periods. His fourth daughter, Setsuko, became the wife of Emperor Taisho. During the political situation at the end of the Edo period, like her father, Naotada, he was considered to be pro-Shogunate, and when the Imperial Restoration Order was issued in 1867, he was relieved of his duties as an official in charge of state affairs and was suspended from visiting the Imperial Court. He was pardoned in January 1868, and during the Boshin War, he fought in various parts of the Tohoku region as the Governor-General of Oshu and Uzen. In June 1871, he was appointed as a steward of the Muska-ma room in the Imperial Palace, where he would answer questions from the Emperor. In 1882, he became a duke. In December of the same year, he submitted a letter of opinion to the director, Date Munenari, with the aim of turning the Peerage Hall into a social club, but this led to an internal dispute over the management of the hall, dividing the peerage world in two, excluding the new aristocracy. In 1890, he became a member of the House of Peers.

(Rintaro Nishio)

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Japanese:

没年：明治39.1.4(1906)
生年：天保10.5.1(1839.6.11)
幕末明治期の華族(旧公家)。4女節子は大正天皇后の貞明皇后。幕末の政局において,父尚忠と同じく佐幕派とみなされ,王政復古の大号令渙発(1867)に際して国事御用掛を免ぜられ,参朝を停止された。明治1(1868)年1月に許され,戊辰戦争では奥羽鎮撫総督として東北各地を転戦した。4年6月宮中の麝香間に控えて天皇の諮問に答える麝香間祗候を仰せ付けられる。17年公爵。同年12月毛利元徳ら上層華族24名と連名で華族会館の社交クラブ化を目指した意見書を館長伊達宗城に提出したが,そのことが会館運営をめぐって,新華族を除いた華族界を二分する内紛へと発展した。23年に貴族院議員。

(西尾林太郎)

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