his majesty

”King of Tokugawa is not rulers of Japan.”
Ernest Satow of diplomatic staff of the UK said so in the first.

His name maybe not known in the UK.
Also not well known in Japan too.
However，his existence is very important for the history of Japan.
　
At first the UK translated the King of Tokugawa as His Majesty.
But there was ”Mikado” on top of king in Japan.
　
”In this case，Queen（Her Majesty） becomes under Mikado.
This is strange.”
　
He noticed that on first.
　
"Tokugawa is merely one lord of Japan.
Therefore treaty with king of Tokugawa has no effect on the other lords.　
The UK's Treaty is only treaty of between the UK and Japan.
The UK does not concluded treaty with one lord of Japan.　
　
The treaty shall be concluded between nation. 　
Tokugawa should clearly return to the position of one lord and Mikado should clearly become Japan's head.
And council of the lords do the political."

He wrote an article like that to the Japan Times anonymously.
In no time，this article had been translated into Japanese.
　
After that this became the guiding principle of the one in Japan.
By the way,Japanese knew that he wrote.
So everyone wanted to meet him.
He had met many important figures of that time.
That remains as important testimony.

For example
"Katsura had the courage and determination of the maximum to Military and Political.
However his attitude was only mild.”