Definition of Konoe

1. Noun. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Konoe

Komsomolsk
Kon Tiki
Konakri
Konda
Kondoleon operation
Kong
Kong Zi
Konglish
Kongo
Kongzi
Konitsa
Konkani
Konkanis
Konno-Rastan procedure
Konoe (current term)
Konoye
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz
Konrad von Gesner
Konstadinos
Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Konstantina
Kool-Aid
Koongol viruses
Koopmans
Koord

Literary usage of Konoe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Saitō Mussashi-bō Benkei. (Tales of the Wars of the Gempei): (Tales of the by James Seguin De Benneville (1910)
"This pleased neither Konoe, who liked Tadamichi and disliked ... Konoe, however, died. Toba then succeeded in appointing ..."

2. Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion from the by Dorothy J. Perkins (1997)
"Japanese Prime Minister Konoe proposed a secret meeting to President Roosevelt, who insisted that Japan make concessions regarding China before they could ..."

3. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"The baby sovereign was called Konoe, and Fujiwara Tadamichi, ... The Emperor Konoe died (1155) at the early age of seventeen, and the cloistered sovereign, ..."

4. Japanese Conversation-grammar: With Numerous Reading Lessons and Dialogues by Hermann Plaut (1905)
"One says: Konoe ko(shaku) no fujin the wife of Duke Konoe, Tsugaru haku(shaku) no fujin the wife of Count Tsugaru, Shibusawa dan(shaku) no o ..."

5. Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 by Joseph Ernest De Becker (1907)
"... of the Imperial Court), divided the power of Konoe Motomichi ... He also caused the houses of Kujo and Konoe to supply a ..."

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