1889
Meiji 22 (明治二十二年)
Timeline of 1889
- 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.
Other Events of 1889
- 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.
- 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.
- Yôga artist Yamamoto Hôsui opens his painting school, the Seikôkan.
Births and Deaths
- Painter Hirai Baisen is born (d. 1969).
- Kawanabe Kyôsai dies (b. 1831).
- Mori Arinori is assassinated (b. 1847).
- Arthur Waley is born (d. 1968).
- Yanagi Sôetsu is born (d. 1961).
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