Ume Kenjiro was a Japanese legal scholar of the Meiji period who lived from 24 July 1860 to 26 August 1910. Alongside Hozumi Nobushige and Tomii Masaaki he is regarded as one of the fathers of Japan's modern civil code, which took effect in 1898; he served on the drafting committee formed in 1893 and championed a civil law modeled on French codification. He founded Tokyo Law School in 1894, the institution that became Hosei University, and served as its president from 1899. After Japan's annexation of Korea he helped codify Korean law, and he died of typhoid fever in Seoul in 1910 at the age of fifty.
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