Itagaki Taisuke
| Itagaki Taisuke | |
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| Born |
May 21, 1837 Tosa Domain, Japan |
| Died | July 16, 1919 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Politician, Cabinet Minister |
Count Itagaki Taisuke (板垣 退助?, 21 May 1837 – 16 July 1919) was a Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (自由民権運動 Jiyū Minken Undō?), which evolved into Japan's first political party. His image is on Japan's 1953 100-yen banknote.
Itagaki Taisuke was born into a middle-ranking samurai family in Tosa Domain, (present day Kōchi Prefecture), After studies in Kōchi and in Edo, he was appointed as sobayonin (councillor) to Tosa daimyō Yamauchi Toyoshige, and was in charge of accounts and military matters at the domain's Edo residence in 1861. He disagreed with the domain’s official policy of kōbu gattai (reconciliation between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate), and in 1867–1868, he met with Saigō Takamori of the Satsuma Domain, and agreed to pledge Tosa's forces in the effort to overthrow the Shogun in the upcoming Meiji Restoration. During the Boshin War, he emerged as the leading political figure from Tosa domain, and claimed a place in the new Meiji government after the Tokugawa defeat.
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