1879 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1879 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 12 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Monarch

Emperor Meiji^[1]

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Taihe Yasujo

• Akita Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
• Aomori Prefecture: J. Hishida then Hidenori Yamada
• Ehime Prefecture: Baron Takatoshi Iwamura
• Fukushima Prefecture: Taihe Yasujo
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
• Gunma Prefecture: Katori Yoshihiko
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Benzō Fujii

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Baron Tatsutaro Nomura then Hitomi Katsutaro

• Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Takaaki Tomioka

• Kochi Prefecture: Viscount Kunitake Watanabe then Baron Kokuritsu Kitagaki
• Kyoto Prefecture

Baron Masanao Makimura

• Mie Prefecture: Sadamedaka Iwamura
• Miyagi Prefecture

Baron Matsudaira Masanao

• Nagano Prefecture

Narasaki Hiroshi

• Niigata Prefecture

Nagayama Sheng Hui

• Oita Prefecture: Shinichi Kagawa then Ryokichi Nishimura
• Osaka Prefecture

Viscount Norobu Watanabe

• Saitama Prefecture

Tasuke Shirane

• Shimane Prefecture: Jiro Sakai
• Tochigi Prefecture: Miki Nabeshima
• Tokyo

Masataka Kusumoto then Matsuda Michiyuki

• Yamagata Prefecture: Viscount Mishima Michitsune

Births

• January 18  - Tane Ikai, super-centenarian (d. 1995)
• August 24  - Rentarō Taki, pianist (d. 1903)
• August 31  - Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)^[2]
• October 1  - Hasegawa Shigure, playwright (d. 1941)
• December 3  - Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (d. 1959)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Web site: Taishō emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.