What is "meiji"

Usage examples of "meiji".

The paintings of Kokan, who was the first Japanese to produce a copper engraving, are technically excellent and are definitive proof that long before the Meiji Restoration the Japanese had become thoroughly familiar with the mechanics of Western art.

Beginning with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the year-periods have been made coterminous with the reigns of emperors.

Japanese history, greatly aroused the nationalistic sentiments of those who finally carried out the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

But the new Meiji leaders, who included some Kyoto courtiers along with samurai, were men of the future, not the past.

Japan a modern state, the Meiji leaders took a series of steps during their first decade in power that together constituted a radical and sweeping reform of Japanese society.

Iwakura Mission was the presence on it of so many ranking officials, who obviously felt that visiting the West at this time warranted their leaving Japan only three years after the convulsion that gave birth to the Meiji government.

West became the surest means for advancement among Japanese in the early Meiji period.

Western fever in early Meiji times even went so far as to suggest that Japan should adopt English as its national language.

Meirokusha, Fukuzawa steadfastly refused to enter the service of the Meiji government and insisted upon the importance of maintaining his independence as a social critic.

British liberal democracy, which absorbed the thinking of Japanese officials and intellectuals during the first decade or so of the Meiji period.

Some of these enemies turned to open rebellion, leading armies composed of samurai who were discontented with the progressive policies of the Meiji government.

At the same time, the failure of the Satsuma Rebellion also marked the last attempt to oppose the Meiji government through force.

The memorialists were former samurai who espoused ideas of parliamentary democracy at this time primarily as a means to attack the Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs in the Meiji government.

Moreover, many newspapers founded in the early Meiji period were intended by their founders to serve as mouthpieces for specific political and social views, almost invariably of an antigovernment tone.

Hence, journalism in modern Japan was in its early development distincdy a journalism of protest, and it was to a great extent for this reason that the Meiji oligarchs so readily and frequently attacked journalists through the issuance of restrictive press laws.