Enomoto Takeaki

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BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

Enomoto was born as a member of a samurai family in the direct service of the Tokugawa clan in the Shitaya district of Edo (modern Taitō, Tokyo). Enomoto started learning Dutch in the 1850s, and after Japan's forced "opening" by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854, he studied at the Tokugawa shogunate's Naval Training Center in Nagasaki and at the Tsukiji Warship Training Center in Edo.

At the age of 26, Enomoto was sent to the Netherlands to study western techniques in naval warfare and to procure western technologies. He stayed in Europe from 1862 to 1867, and became fluent in both the Dutch and English languages.<ref>Akita, (1967) pp. 120–121</ref>

Enomoto returned to Japan on board the Template:Ship, a steam warship purchased from the Netherlands by the Shogunal government. During his stay in Europe, Enomoto had realized that the telegraph would be an important means of communication in the future, and started planning a system to connect Edo and Yokohama. Upon his return, Enomoto was promoted to Template:Nihongo, the second highest rank in the Tokugawa Navy, at the age of 31. He also received the court title of Template:Nihongo.

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Enomoto in The Hague, 1864
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Enomoto Takeaki in Holland 1863-1866

Boshin War and Meiji RestorationEdit

During the Meiji Restoration, after the surrender of Edo in 1868 during the Boshin War to forces loyal to the Satchō Alliance, Enomoto refused to deliver up his warships, and escaped to Hakodate in Hokkaido with the remainder of the Tokugawa Navy and a handful of French military advisers and their leader Jules Brunet. His fleet of eight steam warships was the strongest in Japan at the time.

Enomoto hoped to create an independent country under the rule of the Tokugawa family in Hokkaidō, but the Meiji government refused to accept partition of Japan. On 27 January 1869, the Tokugawa loyalists declared the foundation of the Republic of Ezo and elected Enomoto as president.

The Meiji government forces engaged and defeated Enomoto's forces in the Naval Battle of Hakodate in May 1869. Following the Battle of Hakodate on 27 June 1869, the Republic of Ezo collapsed, and Hokkaidō came under the rule of the central government headed by the Meiji Emperor.

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8 Tokugawa Warships led by Enomoto sailing Off Shinagawa 1868
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Enomoto Takeaki in Ezo, aged 32 (Template:Circa)

As a Meiji politicianEdit

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Enomoto Takeaki, unknown date

After his surrender, Enomoto was arrested, accused of high treason and imprisoned. However, the leaders of the new Meiji government (largely at the insistence of Kuroda Kiyotaka) realized that Enomoto's various talents and accumulated knowledge could be of use, and pardoned him in 1872. Enomoto became one of the few former Tokugawa loyalists who made the transition to the new ruling elite, as politics at the time was dominated by men from Chōshū and Satsuma, who had a strong bias against outsiders in general, and former Tokugawa retainers in particular. However, Enomoto was an exception, and rose quickly within the new ruling clique, to a higher status than any other member of the former Tokugawa administrations.

In 1874, Enomoto was given the rank of vice-admiral in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Navy. The following year, he was sent to Russia as a special envoy to negotiate the Treaty of St. Petersburg. The successful conclusion of the treaty was very well received in Japan and further raised Enomoto's prestige within the ruling circles, and the fact that Enomoto had been chosen for such an important mission was seen as evidence of reconciliation between former foes in the government.<ref>Kamo p. 87</ref>

In 1880, Enomoto became Template:Nihongo. In 1885, his diplomatic skills were again called upon to assist Itō Hirobumi in concluding the Convention of Tientsin with Qing China. Afterwards, Enomoto held a series of high posts in the Japanese government. He was Japan's first Minister of Communications (1885–1888) after the introduction of the cabinet system in 1885. He was also Minister of Agriculture and Commerce from 1894 to 1897, Minister of Education from 1889 to 1890 and Foreign Minister from 1891 to 1892.<ref>Kamo p. 214</ref>

In 1887, Enomoto was ennobled to the rank of viscount under the kazoku peerage system, and was selected as a member of the Privy Council.

Enomoto was especially active in promoting Japanese emigration through settler colonies in the Pacific Ocean and South and Central America. In 1891, he established—against the will of the cabinet of Matsukata Masayoshi—a "section for emigration" in the Foreign Ministry, with the task of encouraging emigration and finding new potential territories for Japanese settlement overseas. Two years later, after leaving the government, Enomoto also helped to establish a private organization, the "Colonial Association", to promote external trade and emigration.

DeathEdit

Enomoto died in 1908 at the age of 72. His grave is at the temple of Kisshō-ji, Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo<ref>Yamamoto (1997) pp. 56–59</ref> (Template:Coord).

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Tomb of Enomoto Takeaki in Kisshō-ji
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Close up Tomb of Enomoto Takeaki in Kisshō-ji

HonoursEdit

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A statue of Enomoto Takeaki in Tokyo.

ribbon bar Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1886)
Senior Second Rank (1896)
File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho Paulownia BAR.svg Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (1908)

NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

Kamo, Giichi. Enomoto Takeaki. Chuo Koronsha Template:ISBN (Japanese)
Yamamoto, Atsuko. Jidai o shissoshita kokusaijin Enomoto Takeaki: Raten Amerika iju no michi o hiraku. Shinzansha (1997).Template:ISBN (Japanese)
Akita, George. (1967) Foundations of constitutional government in modern Japan, 1868–1900. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, Template:ISBN.
Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey. Westview Press (2001). Template:ISBN
Hillsborough, Romulus. Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps. Tuttle Publishing (2005). Template:ISBN
Jansen, Marius B. and John Whitney Hall, eds. (1989). The Emergence of Meiji Japan, The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC
Keene, Donald. (1984). Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC
Ravina, Mark. (2004). The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC

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