Kuge

Japanese politician (1849-1940)

Japanese poet

Japanese politician (1837-1891)

The was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. The kuge were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th century until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in the 12th century, at which point it was eclipsed by the bushi. The kuge still provided a weak court around the Emperor until the Meiji Restoration, when they merged with the daimyō, regaining some of their status in the process, and formed the kazoku (peerage), which lasted until the Japanese peerage system was abolished with the 1947 constitut

noblewoman; Japanese poet

Japanese noble (1536-1612)

historian (1293-1354)

Japanese scholar (695-775)

Japanese writer

Japanese statesman

Japanese noble

Japanese courtier and peer (1809-1888)

poet

Scholar and diplomat of the Asuka period

Japanese nobleman and statesman

Japanese samurai

Samurai and Court official

Japanese samurai

(1845-1864)