Aoki ShÅ«zÅ
Aoki Shuzo (Jap.青木 周 蔵; born March 3, 1844, in the province of Nagato (now Yamaguchi Prefecture ), † February 16, 1914 ) was a Japanese diplomat and politician, with particular reference to Germany.
Life
Aoki grew up, Hagi, attended the local Han School and studied medicine in Nagasaki. In 1868 he was sent to study in Germany. There he joined the economics and politics. In 1872, he became the spokesman for the Japanese students in Northern Germany. In 1873 he advised the Iwakura Mission during their visit to Berlin. After entering the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1874 he became ambassador in Berlin, it was then again from 1880 to 1885 and from 1892 to 1897. He was several times Minister for Foreign Affairs: 1889-1891 in the first cabinet Yamagata, 1891 in the first Matsukata Cabinet and Cabinet from 1898 to 1900 in the second Yamagata. He was successful in lifting the unequal treaties of Japan. At the end of his diplomatic career he was still ambassador to the United States. He was married to a German nobleman, Elisabeth von Rhade.
Node Berlin
Aoki had built his acquaintances from Berlin days, the architect Matsugasaki Tsumunaga, 1888 a country house in western style in Nasu ( Tochigi prefecture ). This house has been extensively restored in recent years and included in the List of Valuable Cultural Property of Japan. Matsugasaki had come with the Iwakura Mission to Berlin, studied at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg under Hermann end and went back to Japan in 1885. In Japan, he gave Hermann Ende works contracts, of which, inter alia, the Japanese Ministry of Justice has been executed. The building was extensively restored in recent years. Matsugasaki Aoki could win in 1888 as the first chairman of the newly founded Architects Association.
Documents
- Okada Y. ( ed. and author): Aoki Shuzo Nasu Besso. [ The country house of Aoki Shuzo ] 1995
- Japan. An Illustrated encyclopedy. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938- X.
- Janet Hunter: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984