Kido Takayoshi

Kido lahir di Hagi, di Domain Chōshū (sekarang prefektur Yamaguchi) sebagai putra terakhir dari Wada Masakage (和田 昌景), seorang samurai fisikawan. Ia kemudian diadopsi oleh keluarga Katsura pada usia tujuh tahun, dan sampai 1865, ia dikenal sebagai Katsura Kogorō (桂 小五郎).

• Akamatsu, Paul. Meiji 1868: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Japan. Trans. Miriam Kochan. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

• Beasley, William G. (1972). The Meiji Restoration. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0804708150/13-ISBN 978-0-8047-0815-9; OCLC 579232

• Beasley, W. G. The Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change Since 1850. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

• Craig, Albert M. Chōshū in the Meiji Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. OCLC 482814571
• Jansen, Marius B. and Gilbert Rozman, eds. (1986). Japan in Transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 10-ISBN 0-691-05459-2/13-ISBN 978-0-691-05459-9; OCLC 12311985
• Kido, Takayoshi. (1983). The Diary of Kido Takayoshi (Sidney DeVere Brown and Akiko Hirota, translators), Vol. I (1868–1871), Vol. II (1871–1874), Vol. III (1874–1877). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
• Nish, Ian. (1998) The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library. 10-ISBN 1-873410-84-0/13-ISBN 978-1-873410-84-4; 10-ISBN 978-0-415-47179-4/13-ISBN 0-415-47179-6; OCLC 40410662

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Kido Takayoshi.

• Selected Diary Entries of Kido Diarsipkan 2014-03-21 di Wayback Machine.
• National Diet Library photo & bio
• Meiji Dignitaries is a portrait of Takayoshi and others from 1877