1892
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Meiji 25 (明治二十五年)
Timeline of 1892
- 1892/7 Narahara Shigeru becomes the 8th Governor of Okinawa prefecture.
Other Events of 1892
- Inuyama castle suffers extensive damage in an earthquake.
- Professor George Ladd arrives in Japan.
- Protests are held against the poll tax in the Miyako Islands.
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston obtains the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection of Japanese ceramics.
- Construction begins on the 'modern' Tokyo waterworks system.
Births and Deaths
- 1892/2/1 Novelist Shimozawa Kan is born.
- 1892/2/28 Echigo Saburô dies.
- Higa Keijô is born.
- Ryukyuan painter Kyûna Anshin dies (b. 1831).
- Maeno Gorô dies.
- Ozeki Masajirô dies.
- Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi dies (b. 1839).
- Novelist Yoshikawa Eiji is born.
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