1872 in Japan
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Events in the year 1872 in Japan.
Incumbents[]
- Emperor: Emperor Meiji[1]
- Empress consort: Empress Shōken
Governors[]
- Aichi Prefecture: [[]]
- Akita Prefecture: [[]]
- Aomori Prefecture: [[]]
- Ehime Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukui Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Gifu Prefecture: [[]]
- Gunna Prefecture: [[]]
- Hiroshima Prefecture: [[]]
- Ibaraki Prefecture: [[]]
- Iwate Prefecture: [[]]
- Kagawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Kanagawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Kochi Prefecture: [[]]
- Kyoto Prefecture: [[]]
- Mie Prefecture: [[]]
- Miyagi Prefecture: [[]]
- Nagano Prefecture: [[]]
- Niigata Prefecture: [[]]
- Oita Prefecture: [[]]
- Osaka Prefecture: [[]]
- Saga Prefecture: [[]]
- Saitama Prefecture: [[]]
- Shiname Prefecture: [[]]
- Tochigi Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokyo: [[]]
- Toyama Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamagata Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[]]
Events[]
- date unknown
- Tokyo National Museum is founded.[2]
- The Imperial Library is established.[3]
- Tomioka silk mill, Japan's first modern model silk reeling factory, is established by the government.
- The Ryukyu Domain is created when the emperor changes the title of Shō Tai, the Ryukyu Kingdom's monarch (Ryūkyū-koku-ō), to that of a domain head (Ryūkyū-han-ō). The former Ryukyu Kingdom thus becomes a han.[4]
Births[]
- January 22 – Katai Tayama, novelist (d. 1930)
- March 25 – Tōson Shimazaki, writer (d. 1943)
- May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (d. 1896)
Deaths[]
- February 10 - Prince Kitashirakawa Satonari, founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (born )
- March 28 - Nambu Nobuyuki, 9th and final daimyō of Hachinohe Domain (born )
References[]
- ^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.
- ^ "History". National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ Lin, Man-houng. "The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Durée Perspective," Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. October 27, 2006, translated and abridged from Academia Sinica Weekly, No. 1084. 24 August 2006.
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