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• Yamaguchi Zuiu
  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'').
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• 1890
  *The [[Japan Art Association]] exhibition includes nine works by six Okinawan artists. *[[Kubota Beisen]] and [[Kono Bairei|Kôno Bairei]] found the [[Kyoto Art Association]].
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• Yamazato Eikichi
  ...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
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• 1896
  * 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.
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• Chosenjin kaido
  ...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
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• 1892
  ...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.
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• Tokyo National Museum
  ...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
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• Takehisa Yumeji
  ...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.
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• 1887
  ...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'').
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• Ryukyu Cultural Survey
  ...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
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• 1906
  ...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.
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• 1898
  ...' (Japan Painting Association) becomes the ''[[Nihon Bijutsu-in]]'' (Japan Art Institute). *Leap years are established in Japan.
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• Edward Sylvester Morse
  ...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
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• Ikeda Yoson
  ...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
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• Yamamoto Hosui
  ...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
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• Rokumeikan
  ...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
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• 1872
  ...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
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• Yanagi Soetsu
  ...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>
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• 1879
  ===Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan=== ...mperor Meiji]], and celebrates Independence Day with Americans resident in Japan.
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• Yokohama
  ...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.
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