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Definition of Konoe
1. Noun. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).
Generic synonyms: National Leader, Solon, Statesman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Konoe
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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