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9 unusual facts about Meiji restoration


Freedom of religion by country

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan tried to remodel the state in line of modern European constitutional monarchy.

Hirotsu Ryurō

His father had been trained as a doctor, and was in Nagasaki studying western medicine at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

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.

Toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, namely the bakumatsu in which the Shimazu clan played an important role, there have been a chain of events such, bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the Anglo-Satsuma War (Satsu-Ei Sensō), which took place on 15–17 August 1863 during the Late Tokugawa shogunate, Meiji Restoration(1868), abolition of the han system(1871) and Satsuma Rebellion(1877).

Japanese cutlery

After the Meiji Restoration, the carrying of swords by the samurai class was banned as part of an attempt to modernise Japan.

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.

Robert von Mohl

Through Kato Hiroyuki and other Japanese thinkers and statesmen, his works influenced the Japanese state philosophy after the Meiji Restoration.

SimCity DS 2

The Himeji Castle and Warring States Fortress are both now available as special buildings, along with a Western Mansion, should the player allow foreign Sims to enter the city.

Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai

It is set during the events leading up to and including the Meiji Restoration, when the threat of Western powers forced Japan's government to modernize and eventually abolish its traditional samurai-based feudal system.


Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama

After the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kanagawa Prefecture, and Hodogaya Town was established on April 1, 1889, two years after the completion of Hodogaya Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka.

Ishimoto Shinroku

Soon after his birth, his family's house in Edo was destroyed in the Ansei Earthquake of 1854, and in the subsequent Meiji Restoration his father lost his employment and privileged status.

Karakuwa, Miyagi

During the Meiji Restoration, it was taken from the Date clan as punishment for their involvement and given to the Takasaki Clan to administer, becoming part of Motoyoshi District in 1868, then becoming part of several short-lived prefectures before finally becoming part of Miyagi Prefecture on April 18, 1876.

Kosaka mine

After the Meiji restoration, in 1871, the mine was nationalized, and in 1873 the foreign advisor Curt Netto was recruited by the Japanese government was placed in charge of modernizing the mine.

Miura District, Kanagawa

After the Meiji Restoration, it was established as a district under the cadastral reform of 1878, with a district office built near what is now Shioiri Station.

Nakae Chōmin

After the Meiji Restoration, he was selected as a member of the Iwakura Mission and travelled abroad (under the patronage of the Justice Ministry) to study philosophy, history, and French literature in France, where he lived from 1871 until 1874.

Nakahashi Tokugorō

After the Meiji restoration, he studied at the law school of Tokyo Imperial University, specializing in his post-graduate curriculum in commercial law, and in 1886, soon after graduation, worked in Yokohama as a trial lawyer and judge in commercial cases.

Ōi River

The river was bridged shortly after the Meiji Restoration, notably by the Hōrai Bridge in 1879 (which was listed as the world’s longest wooden pedestrian bridge by the Guinness Book, and by other road and railroad bridges.

Okura Museum of Art

The museum opened in Toranomon, Tokyo in 1917 to house the collection of pre-modern Japanese and East-Asian Art amassed since the Meiji Restoration by industrialist Ōkura Kihachirō.


see also

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.

Restoration War

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