DaijÅ-daijin
Daijō daijin (Japanese太 政 大臣) is a historic government office in Japan and referred to the highest ministerial rank in the Grand Chancellery (太 政 官, Daijō -kan ). In German, he is usually charged as Grand Chancellor. The title was also read dajo daijin or in the historical Kun - readings Ōimatsurigoto no Ōmaetsugimi, Ōidono Oki, Oki Ōimouchigimi, Oki Otodo, Ōmatsurigoto no Ōmatsugimi.
The names and terms of office of the individual office holder can be found in the list of dajo daijin.
Prerequisite for the office was either the first or the following Prince rank first court rank.
History and Significance
The title was introduced with the adaptation of the ritsuryō law in the late 7th century at the imperial court and remained until the Meiji period exist. As his owner had no official duties, it was a kind of honorary title. He remained vacant, if there was not a suitable title holder. His support should the Tennō be a teacher (师范, shihan ) by " virtue" (人 徳, jintoku ), and enable him to govern the country in peace (治安, chian ). The office was equipped to the decline of Fujiwara with real power, coincided with the transition of the actual governing power from the emperor to the nobility and later to the warrior nobility but the beinahen insignificance prey.
End of the 7th century clad provisionally the sons of emperors, princes and Takechi Ōtomo the office, in the late 8th century, after deciding the struggle for power with Fujiwara no Nakamaro for himself, the monk Dokyo. After his banishment Fujiwara no Yoshifusa stopped the track from 857, so it should remain nearly 250 years without interruption in the hands of the Fujiwara, and almost always busy.
With the end of the Heian period it was basically awarded "Nine pure flower " ( seigake ) to a person from the "Five Regent Houses" ( gosekke ) or the subsequent rank noble houses of the so-called, in the Edo period, only for experienced regent ( Sesshō or Kampaku ).
Six Daijō daijin came from the warrior nobility (武 家, buke ): Taira no Kiyomori, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Ienari.
In the Meiji government of the Restaurationsszeit Daijō daijin was the tallest office secretary (长官, Chokan ). With the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures in 1871 Sanjō Sanetomi was appointed as the last statesman with the Office 1885 it was completely abolished.
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