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*Pencil drawing is replaced with brush painting in the nationwide education system.

*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.

**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.

*The [[Meiji Constitution]] is promulgated.

*The [[Meiji Constitution]] is promulgated. Celebrations surrounding the promulgation constitute, perhaps, Japan's first modern, national, public ceremony of this sort.

*Playing card company Nintendo is founded.

*Playing card company Nintendo is founded.

*[[Okuma Shigenobu|Ôkuma Shigenobu]] is succeeded as Foreign Minister by [[Aoki Shuzo|Aoki Shûzô]].

*[[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.

*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.

*''[[Yoga|Yôga]]'' artist [[Yamamoto Hosui|Yamamoto Hôsui]] opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.

===Births and Deaths===

===Births and Deaths===