Egi Kazuyuki

Junior Second Rank Egi Kazuyuki
江木 千之
Born	(1853-05-21)May 21, 1853 Iwakuni, Suō Province, Japan
Died	August 23, 1932(1932-08-23) (aged 79)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	politician, cabinet minister

Egi Kazuyuki (Japanese: 江木 千之, May 21, 1853 – August 23, 1932) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician in Meiji and Taishō period.

Biography

Egi Kazuyuki was the son of a samurai in Iwakuni, Suō Province. He attended the English School in Osaka and then began studying at the Sapporo Agricultural College and the Southern University (Daigaku Nankō). He transferred to the engineering school of Ministry of Industry, which he had to leave in 1874 due to illness. He then moved to the Ministry of Education and was initially a teacher at the Kaisei Academy in Arakawa, Tokyo.

He later became an inspector in the Ministry of Education and in 1890 a councilor before becoming Director General of the Department of General School Affairs in the Ministry of Education in 1891. In 1892 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior and became the secretary of Minister Inoue Kaoru. He then served as governor of Ibaraki Prefecture (1896–1897), Tochigi Prefecture (1897), Aichi Prefecture (1897–1898), Hiroshima Prefecture (1898–1903), and Kumamoto Prefecture (1903–1907).

In 1904, Egi was awarded a seat in the House of Peers. In January 1924, he was appointed Minister of Education of the Kiyoura Cabinet, serving until the cabinet dissolved in June of the same year, and then became a member of the Privy Council.

He was a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun (4th class, 1896; 2nd class, 1902; 1st class, 1906) and the Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th class, 1895; 3rd class, 1899) as well as being a member of the French Legion of Honour (joined 1901).

Political offices
Preceded by Chikaaki Takasaki	Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture 1896-1897	Succeeded by Motohiro Onoda
Preceded by Sato Nobu	Governor of Tochigi Prefecture 1897	Succeeded by Sento Kiyoshi
Preceded by Tokito Tanemoto	Governor of Aichi Prefecture 1897-1898	Succeeded by Mori Mamoru
Preceded by Hattori Ichizo	Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture 1898–1903	Succeeded by Tokuhisa Tsunenori
Preceded by Tokuhisa Tsunenori	Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture 1903-1907	Succeeded by Nori Oshikawa
Preceded by Okano Keijirō	Minister of Education 1924	Succeeded by Okada Ryōhei