List of political figures of Meiji Japan
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The following were leading figures in the Meiji Restoration, when the Emperor of Japan retook power from the Tokugawa shoguns and in the subsequent Government of Meiji Japan:
From the Court nobility:
- Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883)
- Saionji Kinmochi (1849 - 1940)
- Sanjō Sanetomi (1837-1891)
From Satsuma Domain:
- Godai Tomoatsu (1836 -1885)
- Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840 -1900)
- Matsukata Masayoshi (1835 -1924)
- Mori Arinori (1847-1889)
- Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830 -1878)
- Oyama Iwao (1842 - 1916)
- Saigō Takamori (1827 -1877)
- Saigō Tsugumichi (1843 - 1902)
- Terashima Munenori (1836-1893)
From Chōshū Domain:
- Inoue Kaoru (1835 -1915)
- Itō Hirobumi (1841 -1909)
- Kido Takayoshi (1833 -1877)
- Ōmura Masujirō (1824 -1869)
- Takasugi Shinsaku (1837-1867)
- Yamagata Aritomo (1838 -1922)
From Tosa Domain:
- Fukuoka Kotei
- Gotō Shōjirō (1838 -1897)
- Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)
- Sakamoto Ryōma (1836 -1867)
From Hizen Domain:
- Etō Shimpei (1834 -1874)
- Oki Takato (1832-1899)
- Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838-1922)
- Soejima Taneomi (1828-1905)
Others:
- Hayashi Tadasu (1850-1913)
- Inoue Kowashi 1844-1905)
- Katsu Kaishū (1823-1899)
- Yokoi Shonan (1809-1869)
- Yuri Kimimasa (1829-1912)
