1906

Meiji 39 (明治三十九年)

Timeline of 1906

• 1906/6 Japan is given rights in the South Manchuria Railway Company.

Other Events of 1906

• Makino Nobuaki becomes Minister of Education.
• Okakura Kakuzô's The Book of Tea is published.
• Dai-Nihon-shi, begun by Tokugawa Mitsukuni in 1657, is completed.
• Kondô Yoshisuke publishes Shinsengumi ôji jissen dansho.
• Okinawan emigration to Hawaii peaks, with 4,467 people leaving Okinawa and/or arriving in Hawaii this year.
• The first public library in Okinawa opens in Nago.
• The first public museum in China opens in Nantong.
• Ryûkyû Shimpô becomes a daily newspaper.
• A restoration/renovation project is begun on the Great Buddha Hall at Tôdai-ji, which is completed in 1913.
• Kôjirô Tomita arrives in the US.

Births and Deaths

• British book collector Frank Hawley is born (d. 1961).
• Art dealer Hayashi Tadamasa dies (b. 1853).
• Artist Kubota Beisen dies (b. 1852).
• Artist Yamamoto Hôsui dies (b. 1850).

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