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Yamaguchi Zuiu was a painter from [[Tochigi prefecture]] who taught art in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]] from [[1896]] to [[1912]]. ...a number of his own paintings to exhibitions held by the [[Japan Painting Association]] (''Nihon bijutsu kyôkai'').

*The [[Japan Art Association]] exhibition includes nine works by six Okinawan artists. *[[Kubota Beisen]] and [[Kono Bairei|Kôno Bairei]] found the [[Kyoto Art Association]].

...re of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and essays opposing loyalty to Japan. ...e in Tokyo became a member of Mavo, a now-famous 1920s radical performance art group. He returned to Okinawa in 1927, at the age of 25, and became a playw

* 1896/2/29 Construction of building of Bank of Japan completed. ...and Navigation between Japan and China includes stipulations allowing for Japan and Western powers to build factories in treaty ports in China.

...to [[Toriimoto-juku]], was also known as the Hamakaidô, and had a special association with [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Its use was restricted to shogunal use, and to th *Nam-Lin Hur, "A Korean Envoy Encounters Tokugawa Japan: Shin Yuhan and the Korean Embassy of 1719," ''Bunmei 21'' no. 4 (Aichi Uni

...ghts to Chinese residents of the US. The [[Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association]]<!--中華會館--> calls on the 110,000 Chinese living in the United Stat *Professor [[George Ladd]] arrives in Japan.

...or Imperial Household Museum, is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Nara National Museum|Nara]], [[Kyoto Natio ...tecture]], while the museum's collections are easily among the greatest in Japan, both in size and in artistic or historical significance; numerous [[Nation

...inued on to a specialist course, and joined the [[Hakubakai]] (White Horse Association) Western-style painting (''[[yoga|yôga]]'') group. He soon began to have s ...store at [[Nihonbashi]] (in Tokyo) began selling everyday items featuring art nouveau designs by Takehisa.

...mors of concessions offered by Inoue leak and are widely criticized within Japan. *The [[Ryuchi-kai|Ryûchi-kai]] is reorganized as the [[Japan Art Association]] (''Nihon Bijutsu Kyôkai'').

...r]] and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the [[Honolulu Academy of Art]], [[Waseda University]], and the [[University of the Ryukyus]], among othe ...s not yet any guarantee when, or if, the Ryukyus would ever be rejoined to Japan; this resulted in many Okinawans feeling a stronger desire for reversion, t

...ince Arthur]] arrives in Yokohama aboard the HMS ''Diadem'', on a visit to Japan to officially confer the Order of the Garter upon the [[Meiji Emperor]], on *1906/2/24 The first [[Japan Socialist Party]] rally.

...' (Japan Painting Association) becomes the ''[[Nihon Bijutsu-in]]'' (Japan Art Institute). *Leap years are established in Japan.

...eir introduction to the West. A native of Maine, he originally traveled to Japan in order to study brachiopods - that is, shellfish - but became fascinated ...h introducing the Darwinian concepts of natural selection and evolution to Japan; he engaged in numerous surveys of shells and mollusks, including an excava

...keuchi Seiho|Takeuchi Seihô]]. He joined the ''[[Kokuga Sôsaku Kyôkai]]'' (Association for Creative National Painting), whose members included [[Tsuchida Bakusen] ...g series of paintings depicting the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] and the regions of Japan - an obvious nod to ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' themes - in the 1920s-30s. In the late

...and the political cartoon artist [[Charles Wirgman]]. Once the [[Technical Art School]] (''Kobu Bijutsu Gakkô'') opened in Tokyo in [[1876]], Hôsui move ...listic depictions of nudes, portraits, and landscapes; after his return to Japan, he would also paint numerous works depicting more traditional Japanese sub

...istory'' 5 (1971), 76.<br>Richard T. Chang, "General Grant’s 1879 Visit to Japan," ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 24:4 (1969), 373.</ref> among others, before bein ...e something in brick or stone which would be more resilient in a fire than Japan's traditionally wooden buildings, but something which would still reflect a

...eekata]]'' meet with Emperor Meiji. They are informed of the annexation by Japan of the kingdom as [[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]], and the "promotion" of King

...of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found. ...e at their height. In his eyes, this was a classical greatness that modern Japan had long-since moved past, and lost.<ref>Kikuchi, 143.</ref>

===Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan=== ...mperor Meiji]], and celebrates Independence Day with Americans resident in Japan.

...icially a "city" in its political status, many lists do not count it among Japan's largest cities. Not counting Tokyo, Yokohama is generally considered the ...a Yokohama, including numerous visiting foreign heads of state who entered Japan at Yokohama, and notable Japanese who departed the country from Yokohama.

...tualized element of elite banquets, tea practice became formalized into an art in the late 16th century (the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]]), and came to be p ...e the Meiji period formalization of tea as a "national" and "traditional" "art."<ref>Corbett, 13.</ref>

...strong Imperial association throughout its history, much surrounding that association today is a product of [[State Shinto]] as constructed in the [[Meiji period ...eliefs associated with them, were abolished in the Meiji period, and Ise's association with the Imperial lineage became emphasized, with Imperial visits to the Sh

...nd [[1595]].<ref>Andrew Tsubaki, "The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki," ''Educational Theatre Journal'' 29:3 (1977), 304.</r ...raised up as a celebrated example of traditional Japanese music, and that Japan instead turned away from these traditions and embraced Western classical mu

...] Period, covers the years during which the [[Ashikaga Bakufu]] controlled Japan. It runs from around [[1333]] (some say [[1336]]) until [[1573]]. The era ...murai or court noble in a different meeting space, engaging in a different art, with different companions, intermingling and moving about, and thus formin

...setting the stage for profoundly negative Korean attitudes & views towards Japan down to the present day. ...ther powers, in order to keep Korea available for trade and relations with Japan. This would remain a prominent theme in Japanese attitudes and actions towa

...story of the form (i.e. it being an older, more traditional form), and the association of scrolls as the format of imported Buddhist knowledge, scrolls came to of ...ening less completely (where pages are pasted). Though extensively used in Japan to a certain extent, this method of binding was more common in China.

...rciful Mother") by [[Kano Hogai|Kanô Hôgai]], [[1883]]. [[Freer Gallery of Art]].]] ''Nihonga'' (lit. "Japan pictures" or "Japanese painting") is a term applied broadly to Japanese pai

...wano collections.<ref>''Sanshin no chikara'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (2013), 75.</ref> ...f ''uzagaku'' ever came to be performed regularly or expertly by anyone in Japan, it was almost certainly only in Kagoshima.

...AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 23 2013.</ref> ...f Art<ref>While the Freer piece seen here is permanently housed outside of Japan, and is therefore not an Important Cultural Property, an earlier version of

...ing; image from exhibition "Ainu Treasures: A Living Tradition in Northern Japan," East-West Center Gallery, Honolulu, Spring 2013]] The Ainu are an indigenous people of Japan, mainly associated with [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]], though as late as the [[Edo

...ons also had a strong influence upon women's fashions in Edo, and Tokugawa Japan more broadly. ..., University of California Press (2012), 52.; Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 92.</ref>

...and popular music, and has gained popularity in recent decades in mainland Japan as well. ...ities to systems of notation used for traditional instruments in China and Japan, but bears no resemblance to standard Western staff notation.

...), 57.; also, presentation by Katayama Kurôemon X, at "Master Artists from Japan: Living Traditions," University of California at Santa Barbara, 27 January ...ormed today.<ref>Andrew Tsubaki, "The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki," ''Educational Theatre Journal'' 29:3 (1977), 300.</r

...me=guth/> The grand ''tenshukaku'' (tower keep), the tallest ever built in Japan at 58 meters high & five stories high from exterior view, was begun in [[16 ...no goten – Edojō shōhekiga no shitae'' 将軍の御殿－江戸城障壁画の下絵－, Nagoya: Tokugawa Art Museum (1988), 114-115.</ref>

...rve as the standard model for the shape or form of coins in both China and Japan for many centuries. Recent discoveries since the 1990s, however, have unear ...n'' of coins through the Edo period.<ref>Kobata. pp98-99.</ref> The direct association of goods, especially rice, with value, would continue through the mid-19th

...ai''.<ref>Timothy Clark, "Edo Kabuki in the 1780s," ''The Actor's Image'', Art Institute of Chicago (1994), 34.</ref> Productions went on all day, typical ...e=clark27>Timothy Clark, "Edo Kabuki in the 1780s," ''The Actor's Image'', Art Institute of Chicago (1994), 27, 36-38.</ref>