Kume Kunitake
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Biography
Kume was born in Saga Domain, Hizen Province (present-day Saga Prefecture), and was active in attempting to assist the administrative reform of Saga domain during the Bakumatsu period.
After the Meiji Restoration, he was selected to join the Iwakura Mission on its around-the-world voyage in 1871–73 as the private secretary to Iwakura Tomomi. In 1878, he published the Tokumei Zenken Taishi Bei-O Kairan Jikki ( 「特命全権大使米欧回覧実記」), a five-volume account of the journey, and of what he observed of the United States and Europe.
Kume became a professor at primary Tokyo Imperial University in 1888, while contributing to Dai Nihon Hennenshi, an encyclopedic comprehensive history of Japan.
In 1889, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure.[1]
However, in 1892, he was forced to resign after publishing a paper named Shinto wa saiten no kozoku ( 「神道は祭天の古俗」 ) ("Shinto is an outmoded custom deifying nature"), which the government considered to be seditious and highly critical of the State Shinto system.
Kume continued to write and lecture at the Tokyo Semmon Gakko ( 東京専門学校), the predecessor of Waseda University, after his resignation from Tokyo University.
Works
- Tokumei Zenken Taishi Bei-O Kairan Jikki (「特命全権大使米欧回覧実記」), Tokyo, 1878
Available in English
- Kume Kunitake. Healey, Graham and Tsuzuki Chushichi, eds. The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73 : a true account of the ambassador extraordinary & plenipotentiary's journey of observation through the United States of America and Europe (The Japan Documents, 2002)
Notes
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- ↑ Brownlee, John. (1997). Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600–1945: the age of the gods and Emperor Jinmu, p. 96.
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References
- Brownlee, John S. (1997) Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600–1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jimmu. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Template:ISBN Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. Template:ISBN
- Nish, Ian. (1998) The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN; OCLC 40410662
External links
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- 1839 births
- 1931 deaths
- People from Saga Prefecture
- Kokugaku scholars
- Japanese atheists
- Meiji Restoration
- 20th-century Japanese historians
- People of the Meiji era
- Nabeshima retainers
- Members of the Iwakura Mission
- 19th-century Japanese historians
- Academic staff of Waseda University