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.

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).
• Nanbara Shigeru is born (d. 1974).
• Arthur Waley is born (d. 1968).
• Yanagi Sôetsu is born (d. 1961).

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