Yanagiwara Sakimitsu

Count Yanagiwara Sakimitsu (柳原前光, 4 May 1850 – 2 September 1894)) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat.

Sakimitsu

Biography

Yanagiwara Sakimitsu was born in Kyoto to the prominent Yanagihara family. His sister was Yanagihara Naruko, a concubine of the Emperor Meiji and the mother of Emperor Taishō.

Upon Meiji Restoration, Yanagiwara entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1872, he arrived in Tientsin on a mission of looking into the probability of a treaty between China and Japan.[1] From 1874, he served as Minister Plenipotentiary to China.

References
  1. Kitaoka Shinichi (10 October 2018). The Political History of Modern Japan: Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics. p. 4. ISBN 9780429808463.
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