Donald Keene holds a copy of the English version of his work "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912," at the Kita Ward Central Library in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2011. Keene donated books and ...

It may be withering now. A portrait taken prior to 1921 of Takashi Hara, the 'Great Commoner' who served as the fourth prime minister of Japan. | KINSEI MEISHI SHASHIN VOL. 1 (1934-35)/ PUBLIC ...

The Meiji Constitution was drawn up in the ... In Nihon kaizō hōan taikō (An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan), Kita wrote that the emperor should use his authority to suspend ...

The people of Japan remained subjects of the emperor even as some sought greater rights as citizens. The Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Government in Meiji Japan. In 1868, a group of young ...

Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power. His grandfather, the reigning emperor, was the bold, shrewd Emperor Meiji, in whose name the ...

1890s). Portrait of Imperial Couple (Portrait of the Noble Visages of the Empire), 1890. Lithograph. Private collection. When the fourteen-year-old Emperor Meiji was “restored” as the leader of Japan ...

gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide exhibition currently on view at the Smart Museum of Art. The Emperor Meiji, restored to power in 1868 after ...