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==Timeline of 1889==
==Timeline of 1889==
*1889/1/14 [[:Image:Goshinei.jpg|A new portrait]] of [[Emperor Meiji]] is sketched by [[Edoardo Chiossone]], on account of the emperor's refusal to be photographed.
*1889/1/14 [[:Image:Goshinei.jpg|A new portrait]] of [[Emperor Meiji]] is sketched by [[Edoardo Chiossone]], on account of the emperor's refusal to be photographed.
*1889/2/11 The [[Meiji Constitution]] is promulgated. Celebrations surrounding the promulgation constitute, perhaps, Japan's first modern, national, public ceremony of this sort.
*1889/2/18 ''[[Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko|Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkô]]'' ("Tokyo School of Art") is founded.
*1889/2/18 ''[[Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko|Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkô]]'' ("Tokyo School of Art") is founded.
*1889/11/21 [[Kabuki-za]] opens.
*1889/11/21 [[Kabuki-za]] opens.
*Pencil drawing is replaced with brush painting in the nationwide education system.
*Pencil drawing is replaced with brush painting in the nationwide education system.
**The [[Meiji Art Society]] (''Meiji Bijutsu-kai'') is founded by ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' artists as a reaction to this, and to the exclusion of Western painting from the newly established Tokyo School of Art.
**The [[Meiji Art Society]] (''Meiji Bijutsu-kai'') is founded by ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' artists as a reaction to this, and to the exclusion of Western painting from the newly established Tokyo School of Art.
*Playing card company Nintendo is founded.
*Playing card company Nintendo is founded.
*[[Okuma Shigenobu|Ôkuma Shigenobu]] is succeeded as Foreign Minister by [[Aoki Shuzo|Aoki Shûzô]].
*[[Okuma Shigenobu|Ôkuma Shigenobu]] is succeeded as Foreign Minister by [[Aoki Shuzo|Aoki Shûzô]].