Senge Takatomi | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 7 September 1845 |
Died | 3 January 1918 |
Baron Takatomi Senge was a Japanese priest and politician. He served as governor of tHere prefectures. He was Governor of Saitama from 1894-1897, Governor of Shizuoka from 1897-1898, and Governor of Tokyo from 1898-1908. He was also a member of the House of Peers.
He was an organizer of the 1907 Tokyo Industrial Exhibition.[1][2]
He was a Shinto Priest and the founder of Izumo-taishakyo, and the 80th high priest of Izumo-taisha[3][4] (an eightieth generation descendant of the first Izumo no Kuni no Miyatsuko).[5]
He founded the Mokuyōkai (木曜会, The Thursday Association) a Japanese political faction dedicated to representing the interests of barons over higher nobility.