Naidaijin
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The Naidaijin (内大臣), usually translated as Inner Minister—also known as the Minister of the Center (内大臣 uchi no otodo) -- was a significant post in the Imperial Court as re-organized under the Taihō Code.[1]
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Pre-Meiji period official []
The role, rank and authority of the naidaijin varied, however, throughout pre-Meiji history.
In the ritsuryō system, the Minister of the Center was inferior only to the Minister of the Left and the Minister of the Right.
Meiji period official []
The office developed a different character in the Meiji period. In 1885, the title was reconfigured to mean the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan in the Imperial Court.[2] In that year, the office of prime minister or chief minister of the initial restoration government was the Daijō-daijin, Sanjō Sanetomi. In December, Sanjō petitioned the emperor to be relieved of his office; and he was then immediately appointed Naidaijin, or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.[3]
The office of the Privy Seal was identical with the old Naidaijin only in the sense of the Japanese title—not in terms of function or powers.[4]
Post-Meiji period official []
The nature of the office evolved in the Taishō and Shōwa periods. The title was abolished on November 24, 1945.[5]
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Notes []
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 425.
- ^ Dus, Peter. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan: The Twentieth Century, pp. 59, 81.
- ^ Ozaki, p. 86.
- ^ Unterstein (in German): Ranks in Ancient and Meiji Japan (in English and French), pp. 6, 27.
- ^ Glossary | Birth of the Constitution of Japan
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- (Japanese) Asai, T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
- Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons. OCLC 10716445
- Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 10-ISBN 0-691-05095-3 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK] (cloth)
- (Japanese) Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
- Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-8047-0523-2 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]; 13-ISBN 978-0-8047-0523-3 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- Dus, Peter. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan: the Twentieth Century, Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22357-1 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 10-ISBN 0-691-05095-3 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK] (cloth)
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: Routledge Curzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- (French) Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]