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Definition of Genro
1. Noun. (historical) A body of elder statesmen of Japan, formerly used as informal advisors to the Emperor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Genro
1. a group of elder statesmen in Japan [n -ROS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genro
Literary usage of Genro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Working Forces in Japanese Politics: A Brief Account of Political by Uichi Iwasaki (1921)
"The genro are former samurai of Choshu and Satsuma, who distinguished ... II The
influence of the genro is primarily political, rather^ than social or ..."
2. The Far East Unveiled: An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the by Frederic Abernethy Coleman (1918)
"Okuma was chosen by the genro, or Elder Statesmen, a handful of old men who act
as an advisory board to the Emperor of Japan. Okuma could not at that time ..."
3. Japan's Inheritance: The Country, Its People, and Their Destiny by Eustace Bruce Mitford (1914)
"... cheap—Militarism in Lotus-land—The great renunciation—The samurai and the
State—The Constitution—The Throne and the genro—The Diet and the franchise—The ..."
4. Progressive Japan: A Study of the Political and Social Needs of the Empire by Charles William Le Gendre (1878)
"I.— The genro In consists of law-makers, and it is there where new laws are ...
When a matter is loo important to be delayed for discussion in the genro In, ..."
5. The Making of Modern Japan: An Account of the Progress of Japan from Pre by John Harington Gubbins (1922)
"The influence in public affairs of the genro, and of the earlier Leaders of the
Restoration movement who never received that appellation, ..."
6. Contemporary Politics in the Far East by Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (1916)
"These are the Emperor, the genro, the clans, and the bureaucracy. ... For twenty-five
years cabinets have been made and unmade by the genro, their choice ..."
7. An Indiscreet Chronicle from the Pacific by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1922)
"China in her last reply having rebutted the final Japanese proposals, on the 4th
May the Cabinet and the genro held a joint meeting which lasted four hours ..."
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