Senge Takatomi

Senge Takatomi
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Born7 September 1845
Died3 January 1918

Baron Takatomi Senge was a Japanese priest and politician. He served as governor of their 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.

He was a Shinto Priest and the founder of Izumo-taishakyo, and the 80th high priest of Izumo-taisha (an eightieth generation descendant of the first Izumo no Kuni no Miyatsuko).

He founded the Mokuyōkai (木曜会, The Thursday Association) a Japanese political faction dedicated to representing the interests of barons over higher nobility.

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