Writer: Toyokichi Iyenaga

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History.–_Freeman_ NINTH SERIES IX THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN, 1853-1881 BY TOYOKICHI IYENAGA, PH. D. Professor of Political Science in Tokio Senmon-Gakko September, 1891 CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY CHAP. I. (1853-1868). BEGINNING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENT THE