1879 in Japan

← 1878 1877 1876 1879 in Japan → 1880 1881 1882
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1879 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1879 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 12 in the Japanese calendar.

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: [[]]
• Kumamoto Prefecture: [[]]
• Kochi Prefecture: [[]]
• Kyoto Prefecture: [[]]
• Mie Prefecture: [[]]
• Miyagi Prefecture: [[]]
• Miyazaki Prefecture: [[]]
• Nagano Prefecture: [[]]
• Nara Prefecture: [[]]
• Niigata Prefecture: [[]]
• Oita Prefecture: [[]]
• Okayama Prefecture: [[]]
• Okinawa Prefecture: [[]]
• Osaka Prefecture: [[]]
• Saga Prefecture: [[]]
• Saitama Prefecture: [[]]
• Shiname Prefecture: [[]]
• Tochigi Prefecture: [[]]
• Tokushima Prefecture: [[]]
• Tokyo: [[]]
• Toyama Prefecture: [[]]
• Yamagata Prefecture: [[]]
• Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[]]

Births[]

• January 18 – Tane Ikai, super-centenarian (d. 1995)
• August 24 – Rentarō Taki, pianist (d. 1903)
• August 31 – Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)^[2]
• October 1 – Hasegawa Shigure, playwright (d. 1941)
• December 3 – Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (d. 1959)

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