"Vase with Blossoming Flowers" (1890s) stands at nearly 6 feet tall, around the corner from a marked entrance into "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Segal's essay provides a brief overview of key events in Japan’s Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1925) periods and the processes of creating a unified, modern nation. Voices from the Past: The ...

The Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Government in Meiji Japan. In 1868, a group of young samurai successfully challenged and replaced the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) with a government based in ...

The palace itself is a blend of traditional Japanese architecture and modern influences, echoing the duality of the Meiji era ...

Descendants of the two ethnic groups used as pawns in the brazen move by Japan, still in its infancy as a modern power ... In 1874, the Meiji government used the killings as an excuse to dispatch ...

2023 45COM 7B.167 - Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan) (C 1484) 2021 44COM 7B.30 - Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron ...