10 Facts About Sasaki Takayuki

Marquis Sasaki Takayuki was a bureaucrat, government minister and court official in late Meiji period Japan.

Sasaki Takayuki served the Yamauchi clan in several important posts, including kori-bugyo and ometsuke.

Sasaki Takayuki supported Sakamoto Ryoma in the Taisei hokan movement to restore political power to the Emperor of Japan at the expense of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

In 1871, Sasaki Takayuki was selected to be a member of the Iwakura Mission, and traveled around the globe.

On his return, he found that many of his countrymen had quit the government over the Seikanron debate; however, Sasaki Takayuki chose to remain in the Genroin as an active member of the new government.

Sasaki Takayuki was later selected to be one of the tutors involved in the education of Crown Prince Haru, as well as Emperor Meiji's daughters, Princesses Masako and Fusako.

Sasaki Takayuki was instrumental in the creation of the Jingi-in, the government body heading the State Shinto religion.

Sasaki Takayuki was associated with Nishimura Shigeki in promoting patriotic education and emperor worship in the public school curriculum.

Sasaki Takayuki was one of the founders of the Kogaku-in.

Sasaki Takayuki died in 1910, and his grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.