ARISUGAWA  , the name of one of the royal families of

Japan, going back to the seventh son of the mikado Go-Yozei (d . 1638) . After the revolution of 1868, when the mikado Mutsu-hito was restored, his uncle, Prince Taruhito Arisugawa (1835–1895), became commander-in-chief, and in 1875 president of the senate . After his suppression of the Satsuma rebellion he was made a field-marshal, and he was chief of the staff in the war with China (1894–95) . His younger brother, Prince Takehito Arisugawa (b . 1862), was from 1879 to 1882 in the British navy, serving in the Channel Squadron, and studied at the Naval College, Greenwich . In the Chino-Japanese War of 1894–95 he was in command of a cruiser, and subsequently became admiral-superintendent at Yokosuka . Prince Arisugawa represented Japan in England together with Marquis Ito at the Diamond Jubilee (1897), and in 19o5 was again received there as the king's guest .