Saionji Kinmochi

Prince  was a Japanese politician who was the Prime Minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908 and from 1911 until 1912. He was the last surviving member of the _genrō_, the small group of unofficial elder statesmen who ran Japanese politics during the Meiji and Taishō periods.

## Other websites

- Clements, Jonathan. _Makers of the Modern World: Prince Saionji_. Haus Publishing (2008).
- Conners, Leslie. _The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics_. Routledge Kegan & Paul (1987).
- Hackett, Roger F. _Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan_. Harvard University Press (1971).
- Harada, Kumao. _The Saionji-Harada memoirs, 1931–1940: Complete translation into English_. University Publications of America (1978). ASIN: B000724T6W
- Oka Yoshitake, et al. _Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Ito Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi_. University of Tokyo Press (1984).

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: Junior First Rank
Kazoku, Prince
- **native name lang**: ja
- **image**: Kinmochi Saionji 2.jpg
- **caption**: Saionji  1920s
- **office**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **monarch**: Emperor Meiji, Meiji
Emperor Taishō, Taishō
- **term start**: 30 August 1911
- **term end**: 21 December 1912
- **predecessor**: Katsura Tarō
- **successor**: Katsura Tarō
- **monarch1**: Meiji
- **term start1**: 7 January 1906
- **term end1**: 14 July 1908
- **predecessor1**: Katsura Tarō
- **successor1**: Katsura Tarō
- **office2**: Privy Council of Japan, President of the Privy Council
- **monarch2**: Meiji
- **term start2**: 27 August 1900
- **term end2**: 13 July 1903
- **predecessor2**: Kuroda Kiyotaka
- **successor2**: Itō Hirobumi
- **office3**: Acting Prime Minister of Japan
- **monarch3**: Meiji
- **term start3**: 10 May 1901
- **term end3**: 2 June 1901
- **predecessor3**: Itō Hirobumi
- **successor3**: Katsura Tarō
- **office4**: Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Minister for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister4**: _Himself_
- **term start4**: 3 March 1906
- **term end4**: 19 May 1906
- **predecessor4**: Katō Takaaki
- **successor4**: Hayashi Tadasu
- **primeminister5**: Itō Hirobumi
Matsukata Masayoshi
- **term start5**: 30 May 1896
- **term end5**: 22 September 1896
- **predecessor5**: Mutsu Munemitsu
- **successor5**: Ōkuma Shigenobu
- **office6**: Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Minister of Education
- **primeminister6**: Itō Hirobumi
- **term start6**: 12 January 1898
- **term end6**: 30 April 1898
- **predecessor6**: Hamao Arata
- **primeminister7**: Itō Hirobumi
Matsukata Masayoshi
- **term start7**: 3 October 1894
- **term end7**: 28 September 1896
- **predecessor7**: Yoshikawa Akimasa
- **successor7**: Hachisuka Mochiaki
- **office8**: Member of the House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers
- **term start8**: February 1890
- **term end8**: 24 November 1940
- **birth place**: Kyoto, Yamashiro Province, Yamashiro, Tokugawa shogunate, Japan
- **death place**: Okitsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan, Japan
- **father**: Tokudaiji Kin'ito
- **mother**: Suehiro Ayako
- **relatives**: Tokudaiji Sanetsune (brother)
- **party**: Rikken Seiyūkai
- **alma mater**: University of Paris
- **signature**: SaionjiK kao.png