1886

Meiji 19 (明治十九年)

Other Events of 1886

• Bunkio Matsuki leaves for China.
• A formal Convention of Japanese Immigration is signed with Hawaii, retroactively covering the immigrants who traveled to Hawaii the previous year.
• Three prefectures are combined to form Hokkaidô-chô, or "The Department of Hokkaidô."
• Ichikawa Danjûrô IX revives the kabuki dance-drama Sagi Musume ("Heron Maiden"), with a quick change element as the heron changes back into a young woman.
• The Japanese Red Cross is established.
• Merriman Harris returns home to San Francisco, after nearly 20 years in Japan.
• Mutsu Hirokichi leaves for England, and begins his studies at Temple College in London.
• Mutsu Munemitsu is appointed to a diplomatic post after a journey to Europe.
• Repair efforts are completed at Nijô castle.
• Okakura Kakuzô accompanies Ernest Fenollosa on a one-year art tour of the US and Europe.
• The Tokyo Anthropology Society is founded.
• The Tokyo Imperial Museum comes under the control of the Imperial Household Ministry.

Births and Deaths

• Daguerrotypist and member of the Perry Expedition Eliphalet Brown Jr. dies (b. 1816).
• Ishihara Kanji is born (d. 1949).
• Shin hanga artist Natori Shunsen is born (d. 1969).
• Okamoto Ippei, manga-journalist for the Asahi shinbun, is born (d. 1948).
• Author Tanizaki Jun'ichirô is born (d. 1965).

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