1873 in Japan

← 1872 1871 1870 1873 in Japan → 1874 1875 1876
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1873 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1873 in Japan.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Emperor Meiji^[1]

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[]

• January 1 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
• January 4 - With the adoption of the Western calendar, the five seasonal festivals (gosekku) — Jinjitsu on January 7, Jōshi on March 3, Tango on May 5, Tanabata on July 7 and Chōyō on September 9) — are abolished.

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