Yanagiwara Sakimitsu

Count Yanagiwara Sakimitsu (柳原前光, 4 May 1850 – 2 September 1894) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat.

He is the father of the poet and novelist Byakuren Yanagiwara.

He was born in Kyoto to the prominent Yanagiwara family.

Upon Meiji Restoration, Yanagiwara entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1872, he arrived in Tientsin on a mission of looking into the probability of a treaty between China and Japan.