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...chitecture|Meiji period architect]], known in particular for the [[Bank of Japan]] building, completed in [[1896]], and [[Tokyo Station]] (1914). ...rned to Japan in [[1883]], and the following year succeeded Conder as head of the architecture department at the ''Kôbu gakkô''.

...pg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]] ...today the home of the [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefectural]] Museum of History, has been designated an [[Important Cultural Property]].

...ulture otherwise, through the urbanization and industrialization pressures of the [[Meiji period]]. ...n of new representatives to the board ended in a defeat for Jahana and all of his supporters, at which point Jahana appealed the election, calling on the

[[File:Ikeda-seihin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Ikeda Shigeaki and his relatives at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Toky ...|Minister of Finance]] and [[Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce|Minister of Agriculture and Commerce]].

==Timeline of 1612== .../11/24 (Jan 14 1613) - The English ship the ''[[Clove]]'' departs Java for Japan.

...the Tone River, about four km north of [[Numata castle]]. It was near two of the three [[highways]] between the [[Kanto|Kantô]] plain and [[Echigo prov ...d Nagurumi Castle and other fortifications in the area. He took possession of Numata Castle and used it as a base to fight the Hôjô in Maebashi and [[M

Shibusawa Keizô was a prominent businessman and financial official of the immediate postwar period. ...ijin) in 1945-1946. He also served for a time as the head of the [[Bank of Japan]].

...ination of silver, equivalent to 1.3 ounces. Though not widely used within Japan, the tael was, for a time, widely exchanged and widely accepted amongst mos Taels were exchanged either as bank notes, in silver bars or ingots measured by weight, or in coin, often [[Mex

...in]] minted by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] beginning in [[1588]] (the 16th year of Tenshô). Its nominal face value is ten ''ryô''. These coins were not made One example, today in the collection of the National Mint of Japan, is five ''sun'' seven ''rin'' (15.36cm) in length and three ''sun'' three

...y his elder brother [[Matsudaira Naomune]]<!--直致-->, he inherited headship of the family in [[1884]]. ...mber of the House of Lords, and board member or company director of Akashi Bank, and the Hakushika [[sake|saké]] company.

...art historian, the 21st head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]], and director of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]] in [[Nagoya]] for many years. ...inobu was born in Tokyo on December 24, 1933 as Hotta Masayoshi, sixth son of [[Kazoku|Count]] [[Hotta Masatsune]]<!--堀田正恒-->.

...ughly 50 km southeast of [[Hanoi]] (Thang Long), and sits on the east bank of the Red River. ...lords of the Trinh family]]. By [[1634]], this number had risen to a total of 35 licenses. Like [[Hoi An]] in [[Quang Nam|central Vietnam]], and other po

==Timeline of 1896== * 1896/2/29 Construction of building of Bank of Japan completed.

==Timeline of 1601== *1601/1 The fifty-three stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] are decided.

...riod]], it marked the eastern border of [[Musashi province]], and the city of [[Edo]], dividing these from [[Shimousa province]] to the east. A major wat ...d from the river, as well as numerous sites along its banks, are the theme of numerous ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' prints.

...do-river.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Yodo River as seen from the former site of [[Yodo castle]], in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward]] ...ushimi) and Osaka; via Osaka Bay, it thus connected Kyoto to the remainder of the archipelago, and beyond.

...pg|right|thumb|320px|Bronze dome on the roof of the former Yokohama Specie Bank headquarters in Yokohama]] [[File:Akarenga.jpg|right|thumb|400px|One of the two red brick warehouses (''[[Akarenga soko|Akarenga sôko]]'') at Yoko

...binfeudation]] (i.e. being granted their own lands in fief) or in the form of stipends. ''[[goyo shonin|Goyô shônin]]'' and other elite commoners & pea ...d the largest domains, controlling between them roughly half the land area of the archipelago.<ref>Ravina, 64.</ref>

...[Meiji period]] political activist for Okinawan rights, one of the leaders of the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). ...er, completed in the Imperial College of Agricultural Science, was a study of fertilizer use in [[sugar]] production in [[Kagawa prefecture]]. He would l

...jima Rice Exchange, located in [[Osaka]], was the center of Japan's system of [[rice broker]]s, which developed independently and privately in the [[Edo ...this development, which also brought with it the emergence of the concept of trading in futures (延べ米, ''nobemai''). The Osaka merchants, like the

...anish, and thus [[Christianity|Catholic]], activity in the region, and one of the main transshipment points between Asia and the New World for the [[Mani ...ultimately unsuccessful.<ref>Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', University of Cambridge Press (2012), 106-107.</ref> Manila Bay and surrounding waters al

...n painting. Many of his otherwise traditional works display a great degree of experimentation with perspective, and with other very modern stylistic elem ...and was considered a lay brother (''koji''); but he was also keenly aware of his role within a [[Kyoto]] society that was becoming increasingly commerci

[[File:Rokumeikan.JPG|right|thumb|400px|An 1893 photo of the Rokumeikan]] ...of various interactions with Westerners, the Rokumeikan was also the site of numerous more everyday meetings, dinners, and receptions attended chiefly o

*''Titles: Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]] ([[1892]]-[[1908]]); Baron (''[[kazoku|danshaku]]'') ...1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the service of [[Satsuma han]], and was a prominent figure in early [[Meiji period]] Okina

...huen|Fukushûen]] (Fuzhou Gardens) in [[Naha]], [[Okinawa]], a reproduction of a famous garden in Fuzhou]] ...distance from [[Taipei]] and from [[Okinawa]], Fuzhou was the chief center of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] activity in China, and the chief intermediary p

...the modern period.<ref name=british/> Though there was a unified standard of bronze coins up until the [[Song Dynasty]] ([[960]]-[[1279]]), the economy ...Reorientation of East Asian Maritime Trade, 1150-1350," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 74:2 (2014), 251.</ref> that they came to be widely used

...cal importance - into an upper tier of National Treasures and a lower tier of Important Cultural Properties. ...ung-il Pai, AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 2

...named streets organized on a grid system. The city was ravaged by the wars of the [[Sengoku period]], and largely rebuilt around [[1590]], under [[Toyoto ...f the major avenues are numbered, from Ichijô (First Avenue) in the center of the city, down to Jûjô (Tenth Avenue) in the south.

...Okinawan language|Okinawan]]-English dictionary, and the first translation of the Bible into Okinawan. He appointed himself translator for [[Commodore Ma ...e; for a time in [[1840]], he served as a surgeon on-board an Egyptian man-of-war. While working as a surgeon for a regiment based in Turkey, he first be

...crises, at times. Systems which served as precursors for a "modern" system of banks and paper currency, along with futures markets and other such economi [[File:Wadokaichin.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An example of a ''wadô kaichin'' coin, on display at the British Museum]]

...om [[Okinawan immigration to Hawaii|Okinawa]]. Japanese quickly became one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in the islands, remaining so ...efit too in the remittances emigrants might send back to their families in Japan, and in the agricultural experience, techniques, and technology they might

...e lauded as an exemplar of Imperial loyalty, and a national hero; a statue of him erected in [[1900]] in the main public plaza at the [[Tokyo Imperial Pa ...g his own death: he ordered the castle torched and slipped out under cover of night, tricking the Hôjô into believing that he had committed suicide. Pr

...t outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction. ...: A Note on Mutual Images," in Donald Denoon et al (eds.), ''Multicultural Japan'', Cambridge University Press (1996), 153.</ref>

[[Image:Meiji-naminoue.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Statue of Emperor Meiji at [[Naminoue Shrine]] in [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]], ide ...lture, and society, and marked the emergence of the modern nation-state of Japan.

...roku.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A mannequin of Ichikawa Danjûrô XII in the role of [[Sukeroku]], on display at the [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]].]] ...ningyô jôruri]]'' (aka ''bunraku''), one of the three most prominent forms of traditional Japanese theater. Emerging around [[1603]] and developing into

...shares many of the features of social, economic, and political development of the same period in the West. ...and structures were put into place by Ieyasu's successors over the course of several decades.