, son of regent Kujō Hisatada and adopted son of his brother, Kujō Yukitsune, was a ''

kuge The was a Japanese Aristocracy (class), aristocratic Social class, class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. The ''kuge'' were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th ce ...

'' or Japanese court noble of the late

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

and politician of the early

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who served as a member of the House of Peers. One of his daughters, Sadako married Emperor Taishō. He was the maternal grandfather of Emperor Showa. In the bakumatsu period, Kujō supported the Shogunate policy as one of highest courtier of the imperial court and hence lost the power at the very beginning of Meiji restoration when the annihilation of the Shogunate was announced on January 3, 1868. His right to show at the imperial court was halted. Soon later in the same year he was rehabilitated and appointed of the clan master of the

Fujiwara clan The was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...

. During the Boshin War, he had nominal leadership of the imperial army's Northern Pacification Command (奥羽鎮撫総督府), and spent the latter part of the war in northern Japan. He was elevated to

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dom in 1869 as the family head of the Kujō family, when the Meiji government founded the '' Kazoku'' peerage system.

Family

*Father: Kujō Hisatada *Mother: Karahashi Meiko (1796–1881) *Foster Father: Kujō Yukitsune (1823–1859) *Wife: Sō Kazuko *Concubine: Noma Ikuko *Children: **Kujo Michizane (1870–1933) **Noriko (1878–1901) married Prince Yamashina Kikumaro by Ikuko **Kujo Sekiyuki **Kazuko (1882–1911) married Otani Kozui ** Empress Teimei married Emperor Taishō by Ikuko **Ryuko married Shibutani Ryukyo **Kinuko married Otani Koaki

Ancestry

References

* 1839 births 1906 deaths Fujiwara clan Kujō family People of the Boshin War Meiji Restoration {{japan-noble-stub