◇Fukuha Misei, Viscount, Imperial Official, Lecturer to Emperor Meiji, University Official, Grand Official of Shinto, Official for Poetry and Literature

◇Fukuba Bisei
Viscount (National Scholar), Imperial Official. Served as Emperor Meiji's Imperial Lecturer, concurrently appointed to the Imperial University, Grand Deity Official, Assistant Minister of Religion, and Imperial Household Ministry Official for Poetry and Literature.
Eldest son of Fukuba Yoshitada, a samurai of the Tsuwano domain. Studied Chinese classics and Yamaga-ryu military science at the domain school Yorokan. At the command of Kamei Korenori, the lord of Tsuwano domain, he studied under Okuni Takanori in Kyoto in 1853.
Influenced by Kokugaku (National Learning) ideology, he became involved in national affairs with a pro-Emperor and anti-foreigner stance.
Returned to his domain in 1857 and served as a professor at Yorokan.
In 1868, when the former domain lord Kamei Korenori became an official in the new Meiji government's Department of Divinity, he was simultaneously appointed as a conscripted official and acting judge in the Department of Divinity, where he primarily contributed to the establishment of the Shinto system. The following year, he served as Emperor Meiji's Imperial Lecturer, concurrently appointed to the Imperial University, Grand Deity Official, Assistant Minister of Religion, and Imperial Household Ministry Official for Poetry and Literature.
In 1876, he was appointed to the National Constitution Investigation Committee and in 1879, was elected a member of the Tokyo Gakushi Kai (Scholars' Association).
In 1880, he was appointed as an official of the Ministry of Education.
In 1885, he became a member of the Privy Council and was granted the title of Viscount in 1887. During this period, from 1880 to the following year, he served as the acting principal (principal) of Tokyo Women's Normal School.
In 1890, he was elected a Viscount member of the House of Peers and in October of the same year, was appointed as Kinkei-ma Shiko (an attendant to the Emperor).
Served as a member of the House of Peers until 1897.
Common Name: Bunzaburo; Pseudonym: Kien, Kentō
Born 1831 - Died 1907 (78 years old)
◇Summer Moon: Kagikakuni kokoro no kuma wo torisutete / Mireba suzushiki natsu no yo no tsuki (Discarding the shadows of my heart, I look upon the moon of a summer night, so cool and refreshing.) - Bisei

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