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The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
The 10th-century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari), can be considered an early example of proto-science fiction. The protagonist of the story, Kaguya- hime , is a princess from the Moon who is sent to Earth for safety during a celestial war, and is found and raised by a bamboo cutter.
This list is of Japanese structures dating from the Taishō period (1912–1926) that have been designated Important Cultural Properties. [1] As of October 2016, ninety-six properties with two hundred and twenty-seven component structures have been so designated .
Son of Emperor Meiji. Taishō Democracy shifted political power from the genrō to the Imperial Diet and political parties. His eldest son, Crown Prince Hirohito, served as Sesshō (摂政; "Regent") from 1921 to 1926 because of Taishō's illness. [143] [144] 124: Hirohito 裕仁: Emperor Shōwa 昭和天皇: 25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989 ...
The two kanji characters in Taishō (大正) were from a passage of the Classical Chinese I Ching: 大亨以正 天之道也 (translated: "Great prevalence is achieved through rectitude, and this is the Dao of Heaven.") [3] The term could be roughly understood as meaning "great rectitude", or "great righteousness".
The Heiji rebellion has been defeated, and Taira clan under control of Taira no Kiyomori is dominating the government of Japan – the first example of samurai rule. 1177: Shishigatani incident – an attempted rebellion against Taira clan rule 1180: The Genpei War starts. As result, the Imperial capital is briefly moved to Fukuhara-kyō. 1181
Emperor Meiji was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan, and presided over the Meiji era. At the time of Mutsuhito's birth, Japan was a feudal and pre-industrial country dominated by the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyō subject to it, who ruled over Japan's 270 decentralized domains .
Giyōfū style buildings were built by Japanese carpenters using traditional construction techniques, but with a layout and external ornamentation based on observation of Western-style buildings in person or in photographs, or based on design books such as the Shinsen Hinagata Taisho Daisen, which offered molding designs which could be reproduced.