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Meiji 22 (明治二十二年)

==Timeline of 1889==
*1889/1 The Imperial Court relocates from the [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|Temporary Akasaka Palace]] to the newly completed palace at the center of [[Tokyo]], which is now for the first time officially designated an "[[Tokyo Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]]" (''kyûjô'').
*1889/1/14 [[:Image:Goshinei.jpg|A new portrait]] of [[Emperor Meiji]] is sketched by [[Edoardo Chiossone]], on account of the emperor's refusal to be photographed.
*1889/2/11 The [[Meiji Constitution]] is promulgated. Celebrations surrounding the promulgation constitute, perhaps, Japan's first modern, national, public ceremony of this sort.
*1889/2/18 ''[[Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko|Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkô]]'' ("Tokyo School of Art") is founded.
*1889/11/21 [[Kabuki-za]] opens.

==Other Events of 1889==
*Buddhist missionaries first arrive in [[Hawaii]].
*Celebrations are held for the 300th anniversary of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] [[1590]] entry into [[Edo]].
*A group of former shogunate officials form the [[Edokai]], a historical revisionist group.
*Eiffel Tower is completed for the [[Paris Exhibition of 1889]], and becomes the tallest manmade structure in the world.
*Pencil drawing is replaced with brush painting in the nationwide education system.
**The [[Meiji Art Society]] (''Meiji Bijutsu-kai'') is founded by ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' artists as a reaction to this, and to the exclusion of Western painting from the newly established Tokyo School of Art.
*Playing card company Nintendo is founded.
*[[Okuma Shigenobu|Ôkuma Shigenobu]] is succeeded as Foreign Minister by [[Aoki Shuzo|Aoki Shûzô]].
*The [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô Main Line]] linking [[Tokyo]] and [[Kobe]] by railroad is completed.
*''[[Yoga|Yôga]]'' artist [[Yamamoto Hosui|Yamamoto Hôsui]] opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.

===Births and Deaths===
*Painter [[Hirai Baisen]] is born (d. 1969).
*[[Kawanabe Kyosai|Kawanabe Kyôsai]] dies (b. [[1831]]).
*[[Mori Arinori]] is assassinated (b. [[1847]]).
*[[Nanbara Shigeru]] is born (d. 1974).
*[[Arthur Waley]] is born (d. 1968).
*[[Yanagi Soetsu|Yanagi Sôetsu]] is born (d. 1961).

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