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[[File:Hotta-masatsune.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Masatsune and his wives Hideko and Kazuko, at the [[Hotta clan]] cemetery a Hotta Masatsune was a prominent politician of the Taishô and Shôwa periods.

[[File:Sho Sho.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shô Shô as seen in a 1918 photograph of the Shô family.]] ...ead of the Shô family, ''kôshaku'' (Marquis), and member of the [[House of Peers]].

...ll of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He served as president of the [[House of Peers]] from [[1903]] to 1933. ...at family before becoming adopted as successor into the main line Tokugawa house.<ref>Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/torano

The Privy Council, established in April [[1888]], was the highest board of government advisors in [[Meiji period]] and prewar Japan. ...emonies were to be performed in Kyoto, rendering the [[1871]] ''daijôsai'' of the Meiji Emperor an exception in Imperial history.<ref>Fujitani, 59-60.</r

Hara Zenzaburô was a prominent [[Yokohama]] [[silk]] merchant of the [[Bakumatsu period|Bakumatsu]] and [[Meiji period]]s. ...family business of dealing in raw silk. Following the opening of the port of Yokohama, he established a storefront called the Kame-ya, to sell silk thre

[[File:Sho Jun1918.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shô Jun in a 1918 photograph of the family.]] [[File:Grave-sho-jun.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Shô Jun in Tama Cemetery, Tokyo]]

...riod]], and first [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]] of [[Taiwan]]. ...n [[1873]], as an interpreter, and was involved in the [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874|Japanese punitive military expedition to Taiwan]] [[1874|the following

[[Image:Shoten-funeral.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The 1920 funeral of Shô Ten.]] *''Titles: Crown Prince of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (-1879); Marquis (''侯爵'', kōshaku)(1901-1920)''

==Timeline of 1913== ==Other Events of 1913==

::''For Tokugawa Yoshichika 徳川義比, 15th lord of [[Owari han]], see [[Tokugawa Mochinaga]].'' ...ikatsu to become the 19th head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Owari branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]].

[[File:Meijishrine-torii.jpg|right|thumb|320px|One of the main ''[[torii]]'' at the entrance to Meiji Shrine, near Harajuku Stati ...]] located in Shibuya-ku, [[Tokyo]]. It was established in 1920, in memory of [[Emperor Meiji]], who died [[1912|eight years prior]].

...he [[Meiji period]] consisted primarily of the [[Meiji Emperor]], a series of officials and apparatuses that governed in his name, and the [[National Die ...est governmental body.<ref name=gordon64>Andrew Gordon, ''A Modern History of Japan'', Oxford University Press (2013), 63-64.</ref>

...s peoples/places where a stronger sense of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found. ...is expertise in hydrographic mapping, and for botany, poetry, and a number of other pursuits.

...Hachisuka Narihiro]] in [[1868]], just before the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the shogunate]]. ...romoted to the Upper Junior Fourth Rank at that time and granted the title of Jijû (Chamberlain).<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (19

==Timeline of 1904== ...zô]] departs [[Kobe]] for [[Manila]], to prepare to oversee the settlement of the first Okinawan emigrants to the Philippines.

...//www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/45389864635/sizes/3k/]</ref> to the end of the [[Edo Period]]. ...e [[House of Peers]]. The family's private collections, including a wealth of historical documents, artworks, arms & armor, and other artifacts, are toda

[[File:Rokumeikan.JPG|right|thumb|400px|An 1893 photo of the Rokumeikan]] ...of various interactions with Westerners, the Rokumeikan was also the site of numerous more everyday meetings, dinners, and receptions attended chiefly o

*''Titles: Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]] ([[1892]]-[[1908]]); Baron (''[[kazoku|danshaku]]'') ...1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the service of [[Satsuma han]], and was a prominent figure in early [[Meiji period]] Okina

...US-Japan corporate and diplomatic relations. Over the more than a century of its existence, the Society has worked with numerous very prominent individu ...o Eijiro|Ono Eijirô]], and [[Fukui Kikusaburo|Fukui Kikusaburô]], the head of [[Mitsui]]'s New York branch. Other prominent individuals joined soon after

[[Image:Meiji-naminoue.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], ide ...culture, and society, and marked the emergence of the modern nation-state of Japan.