Masakaze Takasaki

Japanese: 高崎正風 - たかさき・まさかぜ

Year of death: February 28, 1912 (Meiji 45)
Year of birth: July 28, Tempo 7 (September 8, 1836)
A samurai of the Satsuma (Kagoshima) domain in the late Edo period, a Meiji government official, and a poet. He was the son of Takasaki Goroemon, who tried to realize the early succession of Shimazu Nariakira to his title and was ordered to commit seppuku in the so-called Oyura Incident. He was implicated in the incident and exiled to Amami Oshima in 1850. He was pardoned in the same year and returned to his domain. In 1862, he accompanied Shimazu Hisamitsu to Kyoto. In August of the following year, he visited Aizu domain (Fukushima prefecture) samurai Akizuki Teijiro and Prince Nakagawanomiya Asahiko to request that they expel the Sonno Joi faction, which led to the coup of August 18th and led to his appointment as a caretaker in Kyoto. In 1867, he opposed the policy of overthrowing the shogunate by force, and was isolated from the mainstream of the domain government. As a result, his official career after the Meiji Restoration was not particularly glamorous, and he served as a junior councilor in the House of Representatives, assistant samurai, imperial court advisor, and privy advisor. He also studied under Hatta Tomonori and was a poet of the Keien school. In 1888, he was appointed director of the Poetry Department, a position he held until the end of his life.

(Inoue Isao)

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Japanese:

没年：明治45.2.28(1912)
生年：天保7.7.28(1836.9.8)
幕末の薩摩(鹿児島)藩士,明治政府の官僚,歌人。島津斉彬襲封の早期実現を図り,俗にいうお由羅騒動で切腹を命じられた高崎五郎右衛門の子。事件に連座し,嘉永3(1850)年奄美大島に流罪。同6年許され帰藩。文久2(1862)年島津久光に随従して上洛。翌3年8月,会津藩(福島県)藩士秋月悌二郎と中川宮朝彦親王を訪い尊攘派排撃を要請,8月18日の政変を実現に導き,京都留守居役となる。慶応3(1867)年武力討幕方針に反対し,藩政府の主流から隔たった。ために維新後の官歴は必ずしも華やかでなく,左院少議官,侍補,宮中顧問官,枢密顧問官。また八田知紀に学び桂園派の歌人。明治21(1888)年御歌所長を兼ね,終世その職にあった。

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