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Meiji 22 (明治二十二年)

1889/1/14 A new portrait of Emperor Meiji is sketched by Edoardo Chiossone, on account of the emperor's refusal to be photographed.
1889/2/18 Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkô ("Tokyo School of Art") is founded.
1889/11/21 Kabuki-za opens.

Buddhist missionaries first arrive in Hawaii.
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 yôga artists as a reaction to this, and to the exclusion of Western painting from the newly established Tokyo School of Art.
The Meiji Constitution is promulgated.
Playing card company Nintendo is founded.
Ôkuma Shigenobu is succeeded as Foreign Minister by Aoki Shûzô.
The Tôkaidô Main Line linking Tokyo and Kobe by railroad is completed.

Yôga artist Yamamoto Hôsui opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.

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 *[[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.
-*A new cabinet under [[Yamagata Aritomo]] scraps plans for the [[National Diet Building]], Ministry of Justice, and High Court to incorporate Japanese architectural features, sending the German architectural firm Ende-Boeckmann back to the drawing board, to create more fully Western designs.
+''[[Yoga|Yôga]]'' artist [[Yamamoto Hosui|Yamamoto Hôsui]] opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.
-*''[[Yoga|Yôga]]'' artist [[Yamamoto Hosui|Yamamoto Hôsui]] opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.
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