Emperor Kōmei

Emperor Kōmei

Emperor Kōmei (孝明天皇, Kōmei-tennō, 22 July 1831 – 30 January 1867) was the 121st Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kōmei's reign spanned the years from 1846 through 1867, corresponding to the final years of the Edo period.During his reign there was much internal turmoil as a result of Japan's first major contact with the United States, which occurred under Commodore Perry in 1853 and 1854, and the subsequent forced re-opening of Japan to western nations, ending a 220-year period of national seclusion. Emperor Kōmei did not care much for anything foreign, and he opposed opening Japan to Western powers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Kōmei has received more than 1,022,139 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Emperor Kōmei is the 1,309th most popular politician (down from 1,244th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Japan (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Kōmei was most famous for being the emperor of Japan during the Meiji Restoration. He was the emperor during the time when Japan went from being a feudal society to a modernized nation.