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Count Terashima Munenori (寺島 宗則, June 21, 1832 – June 6, 1893) was a Japanese politician and diplomat during the Meiji period. He served as the 3rd Chairman of the Chamber of Elders and Japan's 4th Foreign Minister.
5 de abr. de 2012 · Terashima Munenori. Born into a samurai family from Akune City, Satsuma domain (modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture), Terashima (寺島宗則, 1832-1893) studied rangaku (蘭学, "Dutch studies" consisting of Dutch language and European sciences) in Edo and specialised in Western medicine.
Description. Diplomat and statesman. Born into the Nagano family of a goshi (country samurai), he was adopted by his grandfather, MATSUKI Muneyasu, a doctor and scholar of Western medicine, and studied Dutch studies, calling himself MATSUKI Koan.
Terashima Munenori Memorial Museum. It is the residence of Munenori Terashima or the "Father of Telecommunications", who worked as an accompanying person to Satsuma Students to Great Britain and as a foreign minister.
Munenori TERASHIMA (June 21, 1832 - June 6, 1893) was a retainer of shogun during the late Edo period, and a statesman during the Meiji period. He was created a count. He was called Tokutaro or Totaro in his childhood.
A rare, large photographic portrait of Matsuki Koan (1832-1893), who later adopted the name Terashima Munenori, a Japanese diplomat and "rangakusha" who visited The Netherlands as part of a diplomatic mission in the summer of 1862.
Terashima Munenori was an early Meiji period Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs . He was one of a number of retainers from various different domains appointed in 1856 to serve as assistant instructors at the newly-established Bansho Shirabesho (the shogunate's institute for Western learning). [1]
