Iwakura Mission
岩倉使節団
Event · embassy · 23 December 1871 – 13 September 1873
Some of the Restoration’s most powerful leaders left Japan in 1871 on a two-year tour of Europe and the United States to study their institutions1: led by Iwakura Tomomi as ambassador, with Kido Takayoshi, Ōkubo Toshimichi and Itō Hirobumi, the mission travelled through America, Britain, France, Eastern Europe and Russia to prepare the revision of the treaties2. Mason 2005, pp. 342–345. ↩ NDL, 岩倉遣外使節団, 「明治4（1871）年11月、岩倉具視を特命全権大使とし…遣外使節団が日本を出発した。使節団は、約2年をかけて」. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. NDL, 岩倉遣外使節団: 岩倉遣外使節団, in: 史料にみる日本の近代, https://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/cha1/description07.html (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026).