- Museum Meiji-mura
Open-air museum preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Includes map, photos, and visitor information.
www.meijimura.com
- Meiji (1852-1912)@
Find sites for Meiji (1852-1912), the 122nd imperial ruler of Japan who brought about a revolution to Japan's political and social structure. Sites feature biography, images, memorial shrine to the emperor and his consort, guide to the memorial, and articles about political and cultural events during the Meiji Era.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Royalty/Meiji__1852_1912_
- Schauwecker's Guide: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Basic overview of the era with links to further resources.
www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html
- Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1889)
Text of Japan's first European-style constitution, which established the Diet while maintaining the sovereignty of the emperor.
history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.html
- Contemporary Japan: The Meiji Restoration and Modernization
Covers the development of Japan into an industrial, capitalist state on Western models.
afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/meiji.html
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Threat of Japan
1909 letter from Roosevelt to the incoming Secretary of State concerning his thoughts about Japanese immigrants to America and American relations with Japan.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/trjapan.htm
- Nagasaki in the Meiji Restoration
Examines the relationship between the Choshu statesman Kido Takayoshi and the British arms merchant Thomas Blake Glover.
www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/meiji.html
- Modern History Sourcebook: Okuma: From Fifty Years of New Japan, 1907-08
Excerpt from Shigenobu Okuma's chronicle of Japan's progress towards modernization.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908okuma.html
- Meiji Period, The
Uses text, photographs, and illustrations to describe the evolution of Japan from a feudal society to a world power during the reign of the Emperor Meiji, 1868-1912.
www.taisho.com
- Meiji Restoration/Revolution
Provides an overview of Meiji-era economic reforms and photos of its leaders, including Emperor Meiji, Ito Hirobumi, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Kido Takayoshi.
www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/meiji.htm
- Iwakura Mission (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Meiji_Era__1868_1912_/Iwakura_Mission
- Japanese Export Furniture
Examines the production and export of hybrid furniture based on Eastern and Western ideas during the Meiji Period.
www.euronet.nl/users/artnv/japanexport.html
- Korean Courtiers Observation Mission's Views on Meiji Japan
Describes a Korean delegation's trip to Japan in 1881 and their impression of the government's bunmei kaika (civilization and progress) strategy.
www.geocities.com/volodyatikhonov/Huhenglish.htm
- Japanese Modern State Formation
Briefly describes the end of the Tokugawa period and the highlights of the Meiji Restoration.
www.emayzine.com/lectures/JAPmeiji.html
- Boshin War (1868)
Briefly describes the 1868-9 conflicts between the Emperor Meiji's forces under Saigo Takamori and supporters of the former Bakufu government.
www.geocities.com/tokyo/pagoda/5770/boshinwar.htm
- Wikipedia: Meiji Era
Describes the reign of the Meiji Emperor and the period during which Japan modernized and became a world power.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_era
- Photographic Views of Meiji: A Portrait of Old Japan
Gallery of hand-colored photographs from the 1870s and 1880s by Felice Beato, Raimund von Stillfried, and Kusakabe Kimbei.
albumen.stanford.edu/gallery/gadd
- Wikipedia: Five Charter Oath
1868 document, also known as the Imperial Oath on the Five Principles, that laid out the Meiji government's emphasis on modernization.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Charter_Oath
- Making History: Meiji Japan and the West
Describes the West's opinion of Meiji imperialism from the annexation of the Kingdom of the Ryukyus in 1879 to the annexation of Korea in 1910.
www.themargins.net/bib/front/intro4.htm
- Political Development in the Meiji Period
Highlights changes to Japanese politics and culture including the resurgence of imperial power, the adoption of some Western customs, economic and educational reforms, and an expansionist foreign policy.
intra.colby-sawyer.edu/honors99u/Ernie.htm
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