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Meiji|ˈmeɪdʒɪ|
[Jap., ‘enlightened government’.]
The name given to the period of the rule of the Japanese emperor Mutsuhito (1868–1912), which was marked by the modernization and westernization of Japan. Freq. attrib.
1873E. M. Satow tr. Kinsé Shiriaku: Hist. Japan 125 The chronological period was also changed to Meiji (Enlightened Government), and an imperial proclamation was published making it a rule for all time that there should be only one chronological period for each reign. 1894D. Murray Japan xv. 378 The year-period, which from January 1865, had borne the name of Keiō, had been changed to Meiji (Enlightened Peace), and was fixed to begin from January, 1868. 1901C. Lowe tr. A. von Siebold's Japan's Accession to Comity of Nations p. vi, The writer..felt particularly called upon to contribute to an appreciation of the magnificent achievements of the statesmen and diplomatists of the Meiji Era. 1931I. Nitobé Japan iv. 225 The two great reforms of Japanese history—those of the Taika and Meiji eras. 1936J. A. B. Scherer Three Meiji Leaders i. 1 Hirobumi Ito..became Japan's first Premier under the new Meiji government. Ibid. xiv. 133 The three Meiji leaders differed widely from one another, but each was of a classic grandeur. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 967/1 During the first years of the Meiji period, when western ideas were being adopted in the newly re-opened Japan, the European style of painting was more cultivated than any other. 1961A. M. Craig Chōshū in Meiji Restoration i. 6 Chōshū and Satsuma, han whose samurai were subsequently to carry out, as the dominant center of the new Meiji government, the revolution of the early Meiji period. 1972M. Kochan tr. P. Akamatsu's Meiji 1868 ii. ii. 258 As far as government accounts in the early years of Meiji can be known, nine and a half million yen are said to have been devoted to military expenditure in the period between November 13, 1871, and December 31, 1872. 1974G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies xiii. 206 My grandfather..lived at the time of the Meiji Revolution which made Japan into a modern state. |