kido takayoshi

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or Kido Kin born Aug. 11, 1833, Chsh, Nagato province, Japan died May 26, 1877, Tokyo With Saig Takamori and kubo Toshimichi, one of the three giants of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. He became head of the government of the han (domain) of Chsh and in that capacity plotted with Saig and kubo of Satsuma to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. In the new government, Kido was responsible for transferring the capital from Kyto to Edo (renamed Tokyo) and for persuading the heads of the large han to return their domains to the emperor. He visited Europe in 1871 and on returning helped block a plan to invade Korea. In the late 1870s he worked for establishing a Western-style constitution
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