元げん勲くん

noun

elder statesman; founding father

Refers to a senior, respected figure who contributed significantly to the founding or early development of a nation, especially in the context of the Meiji Restoration.

• 彼かれは明めい治じ維い新しんの元げん勲くんとして知しられている。

  He is known as an elder statesman of the Meiji Restoration.