1890

Meiji 23 (明治二十三年)

Timeline of 1890

• 1890/4/1 Third government-sponsored industrial exposition opens in Ueno Park.
• 1890/6/10 Third Domestic Industrial Exposition closes.

Other Events of 1890

• Ernest Fenollosa returns to the United States.
• The Imperial Diet holds its first sessions.
• The Imperial Rescript on Education is promulgated.
• Kabuki hyôbanki cease to be published regularly.
• Kubota Beisen and Kôno Bairei found the Kyoto Art Association.
• Lake Biwa canal is completed.
• Bunkio Matsuki graduates from Salem High School, in Massachusetts.
• Naminoue Shrine is formally named a Shinto shrine, incorporated into the national system of shrines, and designated as the shrine for the protection of the tranquility of all Okinawa (沖縄総鎮守社, Okinawa sôchinshu sha).
• Ryôunkaku, also known as "Asakusa Jûnikai", Japan's first modern skyscraper, is completed and opened.
• The Third Domestic Exposition is held.
• Yamaguchi Naoki is interviewed by the Kyûji Shimonkai about his life in the Bakumatsu period.

Births and Deaths

• 1890/7/15 Okinawan historian Nakahara Zenchû is born (d. 1964).
• Negishi Yûzan of the Rôshigumi dies (b. 1809).
• Art historian Tomita Kôjirô is born (d. 1976).

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