Nobuyoshi Sawa

Japanese: 沢宣嘉 - さわ・のぶよし

Year of death: September 27, 1873
Year of birth: Tempo 6.12.23 (1836.2.9)
He was a nobleman and politician of the Sonno Joi faction during the Meiji Restoration period at the end of the Edo period. His father was Gon Chunagon Anenokoji Kinsui, and in 1852 he was adopted by Sawa Tamekazu. His pen names were Harukawa and Koharu. In 1858, when the shogunate requested imperial sanction for the conclusion of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan, he and his father Tamekazu participated in a procession of 88 courtiers calling for revisions to the imperial sanctioned proposal. He later became acquainted with Sanjo Sanetomi and others and advocated the Sonno Joi theory. In 1862 he became a secretary of state affairs, and the following year, together with his colleague Hashimoto Saneyoshi and others, he made a proposal to the regent Takatsukasa Sukehiro and others to decide on expelling foreigners. However, he fled the capital in the August 18th Coup (1863) and took refuge at Shokenkaku in Mitajiri, Suo Province (Yamaguchi Prefecture). At that time, he heard that Chikuzen samurai Hirano Kuniomi and others were planning to attack the Ikuno Daikansho in Tajima Province (Hyogo Prefecture), and he joined them in raising an army, but was suppressed, and after moving from place to place, he went into hiding in the Choshu Domain. He was restored to the ranks that had been stripped from him when the Imperial Restoration came, and in January 1868 (Meiji 1), he was appointed Governor-General of Kyushu and Governor-General of Foreign Affairs, and in February, Governor-General of the Nagasaki Court, and carried out such duties as the exile of all Christians in Urakami. The following year, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, but was suspected of having ties to the conservative Sonnō-jōi faction, and was dismissed from his position when the feudal domains were abolished and prefectures were established (1871). <References> Sada Shirakaya, "History of Lord Sawa Nobuyoshi"

(Junichi Nagai)

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没年：明治6.9.27(1873)
生年：天保6.12.23(1836.2.9)
幕末維新期の尊攘派の公家,政治家。父は権中納言姉小路公遂,嘉永5(1852)年沢為量の養嗣子となる。号は春川,小春。安政5(1858)年幕府が日米修好通商条約締結の勅許を奏請した際に,その勅裁案の修正を求める88人の廷臣列参に父為量と共に加わった。その後三条実美らと交わり尊攘論を唱える。文久2(1862)年国事御用書記となり,翌年同僚の橋本実麗らと共に関白鷹司輔煕らに攘夷決定等を建言している。しかし,8月18日の政変(1863)により都落ちし,周防国(山口県)三田尻の招賢閣に身を寄せた。その折,筑前藩士平野国臣らの但馬国(兵庫県)生野代官所襲撃計画を聞き,これに同調,挙兵したものの鎮圧され,各地を転々としたのち長州藩に潜伏した。王政復古により剥奪されていた位階を復せられ,明治1(1868)年1月九州鎮撫総督兼外国事務総督に,2月には長崎裁判所総督にそれぞれ任じられ,浦上キリスト教徒総配流などを行った。翌2年外務卿に就任したが,守旧的な尊攘派との関係が疑われ,廃藩置県(1871)に際して免官となる。<参考文献>佐田白茅『沢宣嘉公履歴』

(長井純市)

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