Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color. Dimensions: Classification: Photographs. Accession Number: Timelines Japan, A. Visiting The Met? Browse the Collection. Mutsuhito, The Meiji Emperor Public Domain. Given the childhood name Sachi-no-miya, or Prince Sachi and the personal name Mutsuhito, he was the only child of his mother and one of the two children of his father to reach adulthood. In November , he was given the adult name Mutsuhito and proclaimed Crown Prince.
It was customary to entrust the education of the imperial children to prominent families of the court. He was not a good student and later in life regretted that he had not applied himself more in his schoolwork. His year-old son succeeded him as Emperor and formally ascended to the throne on February 3, , in a brief ceremony in Kyoto.
Since , a shogun , a military dictator, had been the de facto ruler of Japan, although the shoguns were appointed by the Emperor. In , the last shogun lost power, and in the name and with the support of the young emperor, a new, more Western-oriented upper class initiated the modernization of Japan known as the Meiji Restoration. Mutsuhito received the posthumous name of Meiji, meaning "enlightened rule". Born just eight months before commodore Matthew Perry and his black ships came to ask the opening of Japan to foreign trade, the future emperor Meiji was not originally destined to reign.
After the Satsuma and Choshu rebellion, year old Mutsuhito was to ascend the throne as the monarch of the newly established Meiji government see Meiji Restoration. Emperor Meiji's role in the states affairs remained limited, as he delegated most of his power to a group of oligarchs known as the genro elderly statesmen , such as Ito Hirobumi or Yamagata Aritomo. Emperor Mutsuhito died in and was suceeded by his son, Yoshihito.
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