Meiji 23 (明治二十三年)
Timeline of 1890
- 1890/4/1 The Third Domestic Industrial Exposition opens in Ueno Park.
- 1890/6/10 Third Domestic Industrial Exposition closes.
Other Events of 1890
- Ernest Fenollosa returns to the United States.
- The Imperial Diet holds its first sessions.
- The Imperial Rescript on Education is promulgated.
- Kabuki hyôbanki cease to be published regularly.
- Kubota Beisen and Kôno Bairei found the Kyoto Art Association.
- Lake Biwa canal is completed.
- Bunkio Matsuki graduates from Salem High School, in Massachusetts.
- Naminoue Shrine is formally named a Shinto shrine, incorporated into the national system of shrines, and designated as the shrine for the protection of the tranquility of all Okinawa (沖縄総鎮守社, Okinawa sôchinshu sha).
- Ryôunkaku, also known as "Asakusa Jûnikai", Japan's first modern skyscraper, is completed and opened.
- Tazaki Sôun, Mori Kansai, Kanô Eitoku Tatsunobu, and Morizumi Tsurana are selected to become the first Imperial Household Artists.
- Yamaguchi Naoki is interviewed by the Kyûji Shimonkai about his life in the Bakumatsu period.
Births and Deaths
- 1890/7/15 Okinawan historian Nakahara Zenchû is born (d. 1964).
- Negishi Yûzan of the Rôshigumi dies (b. 1809).
- Art historian Tomita Kôjirô is born (d. 1976).
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