"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's transformation. Yasukuni Shrine is a place of immense historical ...

Meiji Holdings ended sales of almost all of its glass bottled milk and coffee beverages on Monday, marking the end of a product long intertwined with Japan’s sentō, or bathhouse, culture.

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 ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...