Post-Restoration Settlement Or, how resistance to the Restoration led to a Popular Rights Movement and Meiji Constitution
Oligarchs: Court Sanjo Sanetomi Iwakura Tomomi (Iwakura Mission)
Oligarchs: Satsuma Saigô Takamori Okubo Toshimichi
Oligarchs: Chôshû Kido Kôin Itô Hirobumi Yamagata Aritomo
Oligarchs: Tosa Itagaki Taisuke Gotô Shôjirô
Oligarchs: Hizen/Saga Etô Shinpei Okuma Shigenobu
Against 1873 Korean Expedition Iwakura Okubo Ito Kido
For 1873 Korean Expedition Itagaki Taisuke Saigo Takamori
Rebellion Saigo
Popular Rights Movement Itagaki Gotô
Katô Hiroyuki
Cartoon depicting Itagaki returning to government, 1876
1879 Honda Kinkichiro manga Oligarchs (namazu) studying “kokkai” at Atami (Maeshima Mitsu, Ito Hirobumi, Terashima Munemori, and Sanjo Sanetomi)
Source: Duus, Peter, “Weapons of the Weak, Weapons of the Strong--The Development of the Japanese Political Cartoon.” Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (November 2001)
1889 Meiji Constitution
Miyatake Gaikotsu 1889 manga 3 yrs imprisonment