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5 unusual facts about Meiji


Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo

The current name of the garden “Chinzanso” was given by Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922), an influential member of a group of elderly statesmen known as the Genrō in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-26) eras.

Onibi

In the typhoon of Meiji 30, this kazedama appeared from the mountain and floated in the air several times.

Shindō Munen-ryū

Politically active members like Katsura Kogoro and Ito Hirobumi later took active leadership roles in the Meiji Government.

Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto

During this time Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto was officially called Tenrin-Ō-Nyorai and the kanji of various other deities were changed, but by 1890 Tenrikyo was given approval by the Meiji government and the original names were restored.

Ultimogeniture

Official surveys conducted during the early years of the Meiji era demonstrated that the most common family form throughout the country during the Edo period was characterized by stem structure, patrilineal descent, patrivirilocal residence and patrilineal primogeniture, but in some southwestern areas this combination of partible inheritance and ultimogeniture was sometimes employed.


1754 Horeki River Improvement Incident

The project was re-engineered with modern technology in the Meiji era under the direction of Johannis de Rijke(1842–1913) a Dutch civil engineer and an advisor to Japanese government.

Bakeneko

During the Meiji period (1868-1912), in 1909 (Meiji 42), in Honjo of Tokyo, there were articles written about cats that broke into a dance in tenement houses, published in newspapers such as the Sports Hochi, the Yorozu Chōhō, and the Yamato Shimbun.

Emperor Antoku

Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

Fukoku kyōhei

Both Ōkubo Toshimichi and Itō Hirobumi called for the advice of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck; his advice convinced the Meiji leaders of the necessity for a militarily and economically strong Japan and nationalism in order to preserve independence.

Gomi Kosuke

After the end of the war, Gomi completed his education at Meiji University, and began writing popular fiction with swordsmen of the Edo period as his protagonists.

Green tea ice cream

During a certain period of the 1980s in Japan, Meiji Dairies started selling its Green Tea Ice Cream with Lady Borden Brand, however after a while Meiji Dairies stopped selling that product.

Haru no Umi

"Haru no Umi" (春の海, "The Sea in Spring") is a Meiji shinkyoku piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi.

History of Kagoshima Prefecture

Saigo Takamori, the hero and leader of Meiji Restoration left the central Meiji Government and returned to Kagoshima, with dissatisfied samurais.

Ikebukuro Station

The latter line runs south toward Shinjuku and Shibuya along Meiji-dori, and offers through services to Motomachi-Chūkagai Station in Yokohama via the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line and Minatomirai Line.

Itagaki Nobukata

The Meiji era politician Itagaki Taisuke was Nobukata's direct descendant, 12 generations removed.

Kamiya Kaoru

Kenshin then leaves to assist in the First Sino-Japanese War as he had promised the Meiji Government, not fighting and killing, but instead helping people.

Kasama, Ibaraki

Kasama was once a castle town and post-station town during the Edo Period (1600–1868), and a shrine town of Kasama Inari Shrine in the Meiji Period (1868–1912).

Kujō Michitaka

In the bakumatsu period, Kujō supported the Shogunate policy as one of highest courtier of the imperial court and hence lost the power at the very beginning of Meiji restoration when the annihilation of the Shogunate was announced on 1868-01-03.

Kumemura

At the same time, as part of the wide-reaching reforms of the Meiji Restoration, a public school system was established across Japan; though education was meant to be uniform across the country, exceptions were made in Okinawa, as they were for most Meiji era policies, which were more gradually introduced there.

Kyoto Shoshidai

A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.

Lucille Carra

The film compares the degraded condition of the Park Inn Hotel with many of Wright's important works, and travels to Japan to offer contrast Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, now partially restored at Meiji-Mura, Japan.

Marion Scott

Marion McCarrell Scott (1843–1922), American educator and government advisor in Meiji period Japan

Mitsubishi Estate

Its largest concentration of assets is around the Marunouchi and Otemachi districts west of Tokyo Station, an area purchased by the zaibatsu from the Meiji government in 1890 and developed into an office district.

Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park

also located inside the Park, is an open air museum with more than 50 historical Japanese and Western-style buildings, dating mostly from the Meiji and Taisho periods, and brought here from different locations in the Hokkaido Prefecture.

Norio Sasaki

After graduating from Meiji, Sasaki started to work for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and joined company club NTT Kanto Soccer Club.

Restoration War

Boshin War or the Japanese Meiji Restoration War (1868–1869)

Sagara Tomoyasu

After the resignation of the last shōgun the Meiji government took control over the medical institutions of the Tokugawa regime and assigned Sagara Chian and Iwasa Jun from Echizen to draft a programm for the new system of medical care and education.

Sakamoto Ryōma

Japan in Transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sasaki Takayuki

Sasaki was later selected to be one of the tutors involved in the education of Crown Prince Haru (the future Emperor Taishō), as well as Emperor Meiji’s daughters, Princesses Masako and Fusako.

Satsuma Province

On the other hand, Satsuma mandarins (known as mikan in Japan) do not specifically originate from Satsuma but were imported into the West through this province in the Meiji era.

Taisho Political Crisis

When Prime Minister Saionji Kinmochi, who was appointed Prime Minister by Emperor Meiji and continued in that post after his death, attempted to cut defense spending, Army Minister Uehara Yusaku resigned in protest.

Takako Uehara

Takako is also a model endorsing many brands such as Shiseido mainly on Proudia & Tsubaki Shampoo, Dunlop Tyres, NTT DoCoMo, FujiFilm FinePix Camera, SAGAWA, FamilyMart, KC Card, Meiji Chocolate, NEC FOMA and other food & beverages.

The Dagger of Kamui

The movie is very accurate in its depictions of pre-Meiji Japan, Russia, and the United States, and deals directly with historical events such as the Boshin War, and historical figures such as Saigō Takamori, Andō Shōzan, Oguri Kōzukenosuke Tadamasa, Geronimo, and Mark Twain.

Thomas Glover

Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911), Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji, Japan

Three great nobles

These three people died one after another between 1877 (Meiji 10) and 1878 (Meiji 11).

Tokyo Designers Week

Tokyo Designers Week is an annual design event that takes place at Meiji Jingu Gaien in central Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo Gakuen High School

This school was established in the Japanese era of 22 Meiji (1889 A.D.), and became one of Japan's first private commercial schools.

Toyama Shogyo High School

The school has been in operation for more than a century and, with only brief interruptions in operation, has survived war with China, Russia, and the United States of America, and has seen the reign of the Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei Emperors.

Umewaka Minoru I

A prolific teacher of Noh in the Meiji period, he taught a variety of people including the painter Kōgyo, the writer Ezra Pound, and the scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa.

財閥

Zaibatsu, Japanese business conglomerates that controlled significant parts of the Japanese economy throughout the Edo and Meiji periods


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