1883

Meiji 16 (明治十六年)

Other Events of 1883

• Bunkio Matsuki opens the first Japanese store in Boston, Massachusetts, and builds the first Japanese house in Salem, Massachusetts.
• Representatives of Japan attend the coronation of King Kalakaua of Hawaii.
• The Rokumeikan, designed by Josiah Conder, is completed.
• The Sino-French War breaks out.
• The Technical Art School in Tokyo is closed down.
• Uesugi Mochinori is replaced as Governor of Okinawa Prefecture.
• Zensho-an temple is established for the souls of those killed in the Meiji Restoration.

Births and Deaths

• 1883/1/1 Hatoyama Ichirô, future Prime Minister of Japan, born (d. 1959).
• 1883/2/15 Prince Kacho Hiroatsu dies (b. 1875)
• 1883/4/11 Hozumi Shigeto, author, born (d. 1951).
• 1883/11/12 Atsu-hime, wife of Tokugawa Iesada, dies (b. 1836).
• 1883/12/14 Ueshiba Morihei, founder of aikido, born (d. 1969).
• Nihonga artist Hashimoto Kansetsu is born (d. 1945).
• Iwakura Tomomi dies (b. 1825).
• Shin hanga artist Kawase Hasui is born (d. 1957).
• George Sansom, historian of Japan, born (d. 1965).
• Artist Takamura Kôtarô is born (d. 1956).

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