Kido Takayoshi / Katsura Kogoro (1833-1877)

Early Life | His views on Yoshida Shoin | Ascension to Power | His career in the Meiji Era / His death |
Notes on his family, household and hobbies | Selected Diary Entries| Poetry | Pictures | Fictional portrayals

  

Selected entries from the Diary of Kido Takayoshi
Three volumes, translated by Sydney Devere Brown and Akiko Hirota

Volume 1.

1868 (Meiji 1/4/1 or April 23, 1868 forward)
1869
1870
1871

Volume 2

Notes

1871

1872
Iwakura Mission -United States

1873

1874

1875

1876

1877
The majority of this information is taken from the following work:
The Diaries of Kido Takayoshi, Translator Sydney D. Brown