Ōyama Iwao
Japanese field marshal and Meiji Restoration leader
He died at age seventy-five in 1916 and was accorded a state funeral.[1] Ōyama Iwao's birthplace was Kagoshima, and his family were samurai of the Satsuma Domain.[2]
Quick Facts
- Office
- Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
- Monarch
- Taishō
- Took office
- 23 April 1915
- Left office
- 10 December 1916
- Predecessor
- Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
- Successor
- Matsukata Masayoshi
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He spent three years in Geneva studying foreign languages and became fluent in Russian.[2] He received the title of marquis and became a field-marshal in January 1898.[2] He was reserved and tended to shun politics, unlike Yamagata Aritomo. Ōyama selected the poem that became Japan's national anthem kimigayo.[3][4] Ōyama Iwao was a younger cousin on his father's side to Saigō Takamori, and Ōkubo Toshimichi was his mentor.[2]
In 1870, Ōyama was dispatched to France for study at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, and also served as Japan's official military observer during the Franco-Prussian War.[2] During the First Sino-Japanese War, Ōyama commanded the Japanese Second Army, which seized Port Arthur and Weihaiwei.[5] While serving as War Minister and Chief of the Army General Staff, Ōyama supported the oligarchs' autocratic rule against democratic pressures.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Ōyama Iwao" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ōyama Iwao" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "大山巌関係文書（寄託） 憲政資料室の所蔵資料 国立国会図書館", The National Archives of Japan, National Diet Library (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ōyama Iwao" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "大山巌関係文書（寄託） 憲政資料室の所蔵資料 国立国会図書館", The National Archives of Japan, National Diet Library; (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ōyama Iwao" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Aura Sabadus, "Japan searches for Scot who modernised nation", The Scotsman, 2006-03-14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ōyama Iwao" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "大山巌関係文書（寄託） 憲政資料室の所蔵資料 国立国会図書館", The National Archives of Japan, National Diet Library; ; Trumbull White, "The War in the East", J. H. Moore and Company, 1895, p. 597–606 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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