Difference between revisions of "Kawaji Toshiakira"
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Kawaji was one of three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854,<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref> and discussions and preparations pertaining to the visit of US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] to Edo in [[1857]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 386.</ref> | Kawaji was one of three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854,<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref> and discussions and preparations pertaining to the visit of US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] to Edo in [[1857]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 386.</ref> | ||
| − | Following a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]] in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', UC Press (1998), 68.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 99.</ref> He was reassigned from the position of ''Kanjô bugyô'' to ''Nishinomaru rusui'' in [[1858]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 559.</ref> | + | Following a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]] in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', UC Press (1998), 68.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 99.</ref> He was reassigned from the position of ''Kanjô bugyô'' to ''Nishinomaru rusui'' in [[1858]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 559.</ref> In [[1859]], he was dismissed from his position and sentenced to house confinement amidst the dismissal and house confinement of a number of prominent officials associated with foreign affairs.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 210.</ref> |
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- Died: 1868
- Japanese: 川路聖謨 (Kawaji Toshiakira)
Kawaji Toshiakira served as Nara bugyô (Nara City Magistrate) from 1846-1851. He then served as Osaka machi bugyô from 1851 until 1852, as kanjô bugyô beginning in 1852, and as gaikoku bugyô (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in 1868 as the Tokugawa shogunate fell.
Kawaji was one of three signers of the 1854 Treaty of Shimoda, along with Tsutsui Masanori and Koga Masaru; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin in 1853 to 1854,[1] and discussions and preparations pertaining to the visit of US consul general Townsend Harris to Edo in 1857.[2]
Following a fire at the Kyoto Imperial Palace in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.[3] He was reassigned from the position of Kanjô bugyô to Nishinomaru rusui in 1858.[4] In 1859, he was dismissed from his position and sentenced to house confinement amidst the dismissal and house confinement of a number of prominent officials associated with foreign affairs.[5]
References
- Plaque on-site at stele erected in Kawaji's honor, at Sarusawa Pond, Nara.
- Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 376.
