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''With information translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article'' A letter to James Lord Bowes of Liverpool currently exists, translated by the Japanese Legation in London, dated 20 December 1882, signed Tokudaiji ''Sanenori'', Minister of the Imperial Household.〔''The Japanese Consul, the life of James Lord Bowes in Liverpool'',p81, Liverpool History Press 2013, ISBN 978-0-9573833-0-2.〕 The name quoted in kanji on this page translates in accord with this reading, the last character (to the right) reading as Soku or Nori. Prince was a Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan in the Meiji period. ==Life== Tokydaiji Sanetsune was born to a branch of the Fujiwara court nobility in Kyoto. His father was Tokudaiji Kinito, and his brother was Saionji Kinmochi, later Prime Minister of Japan. Joining the ''Sonnō jōi'' ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian") faction in Court against westernization and the Tokugawa shogunate, he was forced to flee Kyoto during the coup d’etat by the moderate ''samurai'' of the Aizu and Satsuma domains on 18 August 1863. He returned after the Meiji Restoration and served in a number of posts in the new government. He became a ''Dainagon'' in 1869. In 1884, he was given the title of ''koshaku'' (marquis) under the new ''kazoku'' nobility rankings, and was subsequently elevated to ''koshaku'' (prince). In 1891 he became Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan a post he held until Emperor Meiji's death. He felt very strongly that the Emperor should not involve himself in politics or in the decision-making process of government. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tokudaiji Sanetsune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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