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PRINCE TOMOMI IWAKURA (1835-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE TOMOMI See also:IWAKURA (1835-1883)  , See also:Japanese states-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Kioto . He was one of the See also:court nobles (kuge) of See also:Japan, and he traced his descent to the See also:emperor Murakami (A.o . 947-967) . A man of profound ability and singular force of See also:character, he acted a leading See also:part in the complications preceding the fall of the See also:Tokugawa shogunate, and was obliged to See also:fly from Kioto accompanied by his coadjutor, See also:Prince See also:Sanjo . They took See also:refuge with the Daimyo of Choshu, and, while there, established relations which contributed greatly to the ultimate See also:union of the two See also:great fiefs, Satsuma and Choshu, for the See also:work of the Restoration . From 1867 until the See also:day of his See also:death See also:Iwakura was one of the most prominent figures on the See also:political See also:stage . In 1871 he proceeded to See also:America and See also:Europe at the See also:head of an imposing See also:embassy of some fifty persons, the See also:object being to explain to See also:foreign governments the actual conditions existing in Japan, and to pave the way for negotiating new See also:treaties consistent with her See also:sovereign rights . Little success attended the See also:mission . Returning to Japan in 1873, Iwakura found the See also:cabinet divided as to the manner of dealing with See also:Korea's insulting attitude . He advocated See also:peace, and his See also:influence carried the day, thus removing a difficulty which, though apparently of See also:minor dimensions, might have changed the whole course of Japan's See also:modern See also:history . I XION, in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Phlegyas, See also:king of the See also:Lapithae in See also:Thessaly (or of See also:Ares), and See also:husband of Dia . According to See also:custom he promised his See also:father-in-See also:law, Deioneus, a handsome bridal See also:present, but treacherously murdered him when he claimed the fulfilment of the promise .

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punishment, Ixion was seized with madness, until See also:Zeus purified him of his See also:crime and admitted him as a See also:guest to See also:Olympus . Ixion abused his See also:pardon by trying to seduce See also:Hera; but the goddess substituted for herself a See also:cloud, by which he became the father of the See also:Centaurs . Zeus See also:bound him on a fiery See also:wheel, which rolls unceasingly through the See also:air or (according to the later version) in the underworld (See also:Pindar, Pythia, ii . 2s; See also:Ovid, Metam. iv . 461; See also:Virgil, Aeneid, vi . 6o1) . Ixion is generally taken to represent the eternally moving See also:sun . Another explanation connects the See also:story with the practice (among certain peoples of central Europe) of carrying a blazing, revolving wheel through See also:fields which needed the See also:heat of the sun, the legend being invented to explain the custom and subsequently adopted by the Greeks (see Mannhardt, Wald- and Feldkulte, ii . 1905, p . 83) . In view of the fact that the See also:oak was the sun-See also:god's See also:tree and that the mistletoe See also:grew upon it, it is suggested by A . B .

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Cook (Class . Rev. xvii . 420) that 'IEimv is derived from iEos (mistletoe), the sun's See also:fire being regarded as an See also:emanation from the mistletoe . Ixion himself is probably a by-See also:form of Zeus (Usener in Rhein . See also:Mus. liii . 345) . " The Myth of Ixion " (by C . See also:Smith, in Classical See also:Review, See also:June 1895) deals with the subject of a red-figure cantharus in the See also:British Museum . I XTACCIHUATL, or IZTACCIHUATL (" See also:white woman "), a lofty See also:mountain of volcanic origin, ro m . N. of See also:Popocatepetl and about 40 M . S.S.E of the See also:city of See also:Mexico, forming part of the See also:short See also:spur called the Sierra See also:Nevada . According to Angelo Heilprin (1853-1907) its See also:elevation is 16,96o ft.; other authorities make it much less .

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summit and the large See also:area covered . It has three summits of different heights See also:standing on a See also:north and See also:south See also:line, the central one being the largest and highest and all three rising above the permanent See also:snow-line . As seen from the city of Mexico the three summits have the See also:appearance of a shrouded human figure, hence the poetic Aztec appellation of " white woman " and the unsentimental See also:Spanish designation " La mujer gorda." The ascent is difficult and perilous, and is rarely accomplished . Heilprin says that the mountain is largely composed of trachytic rocks and that it is older than Popocatepetl . It has no See also:crater and no trace of lingering volcanic heat . It is surmised that its crater, if it ever had one, has been filled in and its See also:cone worn away by erosion through See also:long periods of See also:time .

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