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10 unusual facts about Meiji period


Bandai-Asahi National Park

During the Meiji period, the Iide Shrine located on the summit was worshipped by local residents.

Dōshi, Yamanashi

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period in 1889, the village of Dōshi was created within Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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.

Kosuge, Yamanashi

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period in July 1, 1889, the village of Kosuke was created within Kitatsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture.

Narusawa, Yamanashi

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period in July 1, 1889, the village of Narusawa was created within Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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.

Shrimp toast

The dish was introduced to Japan during the Meiji period through the port of Nagasaki, whose local Shippoku cuisine blended the cookery of China, Japan, and the West.

Tabayama, Yamanashi

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period in July 1, 1889, the village of Tabiyama was created within Kitatsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture.

Terukuni jinja

The shrine was founded in Kyushu in 1882 during the Meiji period.

Three great nobles

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


Albert M. Craig

His research focused primarily on the transition from the Edo period through the Meiji period.

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.

Georges Hilaire Bousquet

He was a graduate of the University of Paris and was working as a lawyer for the Court of Appeals in Paris when approached by Samejima Naonobu, a Japanese diplomat recruiting foreign advisors for the government of Meiji period Japan onDecember 24, 1871.

Jean Francisque Coignet

Jean Francisque Coignet (1835 - 18 June 1902) was a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan noted for his modernization of the Ikuno Silver Mine at Ikuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe.

Kominato Line

Plans for a railroad bisecting the Bōsō Peninsula were drafted by the Railway Ministry in the Meiji period, with the aim of connecting the town of Kominato (now part of Kamogawa City), a town facing the Pacific and famous as the birthplace of Nichiren, for economic and military reasons.

Kosaka, Akita

After the start of the Meiji period, the area became briefly part of Rikuchū Province before being transferred to Akita Prefecture in 1871.

Meiji Shrine Inner Garden

During the Meiji period, the garden came under the supervision of the Imperial Household Agency and named Yoyogi Gyoen (Yoyogi Imperial Garden) and was frequently visited by Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken.

Oyama, Shizuoka

During the cadastral reform of the early Meiji period on April 1, 1889, the area was reorganized into the villages of Rokugo, Kannuma, Ashigara, Kitago and Subashiri within Suntō District, Shizuoka, two months after the opening of Suruga-Oyama Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line (now Gotemba Line).

Pavilion for Japanese Art

The museum's collection includes traditional woodblock prints from the Edo period (1615–1868), as well as a large number of prints from the Meiji period (1868–1912), Taishō period (1912–1926), and the Shōwa period (1926–1989).

Saiko Lake

Japanese crucian carp, wakasagi and Kunimasu were introduced to the lake in the Meiji period, and sports fishing is also popular.

Saka no Ue no Kumo

The novel is set in the Meiji period and focuses on three characters from the city of Matsuyama: Akiyama Yoshifuru, his brother Akiyama Saneyuki, and their friend, Masaoka Tsunenori, better known as Masaoka Shiki.

Shiba Gorō

His brother, Shiba Shirō, under the pen name Tokai Sanshi, was also famous during the mid-Meiji period, as the author of "Chance Encounters with Beautiful Women" (Kajin no Kigu), a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Shinko engeki jisshu

These represent the greatest plays of the Bakumatsu (c. 1853-1867) and Meiji periods (1868-1912), and many were written by Kawatake Mokuami the most celebrated playwright today of that period.

Yasugi, Shimane

The Adachi Museum of Art has Japanese gardens and a collection of contemporary Japanese paintings, comprising approximately 1,300 of the country's most highly regarded paintings produced after the Meiji period and centering on the works of Yokoyama Taikan.