genrō
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thumb|right|The leading genrō Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo in 1896 thumb|right|The genrō Saionji Kinmochi (right) at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 was an unofficial designation given to a generation of elder Japanese statesmen and military officers, all born between the 1830s and 1850s, who served as informal extraconstitutional advisors to the emperor during the Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa eras of Japanese history.
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thumb|right|The leading genrō Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo in 1896 thumb|right|The genrō Saionji Kinmochi (right) at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 was an unofficial designation given to a generation of elder Japanese statesmen and military officers, all born between the 1830s and 1850s, who served as informal extraconstitutional advisors to the emperor during the Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa eras of Japanese history.
The institution of genrō originated with the traditional council of elders (Rōjū) common in the Edo period; however, the term genrō appears to have been coined by a newspaper only in 1892. The term is sometimes confused with the Genrōin (Chamber of Elders), a legislative body which existed from 1875–1890; however, the genrō were not related to the establishment of that body or its dissolution.