Post-Restoration Settlement

Or, how resistance to the Restoration led to a Popular Rights Movement

and Meiji Constitution

Oligarchs: Court

• Sanjo Sanetomi

• Iwakura Tomomi

(Iwakura Mission)

Oligarchs: Satsuma

• Okubo ToshimichiSaigô Takamori

Oligarchs: Chôshû

Kido Kôin

Itô Hirobumi

Yamagata Aritomo

Oligarchs: Tosa

• Itagaki Taisuke

• Gotô Shôjirô

Oligarchs: Hizen/SagaEtô Shinpei Okuma Shigenobu

Against 1873 Korean Expedition

Iwakura

Okubo

Ito

Kido

For 1873 Korean Expedition

Saigo Takamori

Itagaki Taisuke

Rebellion

Saigo

Popular Rights Movement

ItagakiGotô

Katô Hiroyuki

Cartoon depicting Itagaki returning to government, 1876

1879 Honda Kinkichiro manga Oligarchs (namazu) studying “kokkai” at Atami

(Maeshima Mitsu, Ito Hirobumi, Terashima Munemori, and Sanjo Sanetomi)

Source: Duus, Peter, “Weapons of the Weak, Weapons of the Strong--The Development of the Japanese Political Cartoon.” Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (November 2001)

1889 Meiji Constitution

Miyatake Gaikotsu1889 manga

3 yrs imprisonment