Prince Nijō Motohiro (二条 基弘, 19 November 1859 – 2 April 1928), was a Japanese nobleman who served the Meiji government as a court official and member of House of Peers.
Nijō Motohiro was born in Kyoto as the eighth son of Kujō Hisatada.
On 7 July 1869 as part of the reformation of the court nobility under the new Meiji government, Nijō Motohiro became a prince (koshaku) under the new kazoku peerage system.
Together with Konoe Atsumarō, Nijō was a leader of the Sanyōkai faction within the upper house, which was critical of Itō Hirobumi’s pro-Jiyutō politics, plans for increased military expenditures after the First Sino-Japanese War, and plans for tax reform.
[2] He later served as high priest of Kasuga-taisha, the Fujiwara clan’s ancestral Shinto shrine in Nara.