陸奥宗光のベクトル : 官僚・陸奥宗光の政治性

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  • The Vector of Mutsu Munemitsu : A Bureaucrat, Politically-minded by Nature
  • ムツソウヒカリ ノ ベクトル : カンリョウ ・ ムツソウヒカリ ノ セイジセイ

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The name of Mutsu Munemitsu reminds us of the “Mutsu diplomacy”during the Sino-Japanese war in the last decade of the 19th century. While most studies of Mutsu have naturally focused on his tenure of foreign minister, his career as a whole has not been so probed as it should be. Especially his initial stage in the Meiji government has not been in the docket of researches on Mutsu. As an attempt to fill this lacuna, this article analyses his political designs as well as his political activities from 1868 to 1874. In 1868 young Mutsu entered the Meiji government. From then on, he held posts in the new government including governor of Hyogo and Kanagawa. He also engaged himself in reforms of his ex-domain Wakayama. In 1872 he assumed head of the Land Tax Revision Bureau and successfully managed to realize the reform of the land tax in 1873. Through his various posts regardless of his brief term of a bureaucrat, did Mutsu seek to grasp the political power and status, but in vain. In contrast to those from Satsuma and Choshu, two major dominant domains which have much to do with the fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu, Mutsu had no political forces to back him up. He also tried to enhance the civilization and enlightenment as well as a centralization of the government, which potentially would be different from those of the oligarchical government of Okubo Toshimichi. In spite of his ability and philosophy adding to his guts and skills, Mutsu was always taken for as a bureaucrat not as a statesman. His desire to take a position of authority and to realize his designs did not come true. It seemed to Mutsu that the government was filled with those from the dominant domains, which he thought did harm to all of the nation. Mutsu grew so resentful that he resigned in January 1874.

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