1893 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1893 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 26 (明治26年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Prime Minister

Itō Hirobumi

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Tokito Konkyo

• Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
• Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
• Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada then Kojiro Iwasaki
  • Fukushima Prefecture: Yoshio Kusaka Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki then Michio Sokabe
• Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Nabeshima Miki

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Takasaki

• Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
• Kagawa Prefecture: Masao Tanimori then Baron Umashi Obata
• Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Matsudaira Masanao

• Kyoto Prefecture

Baron Akira Senda then Hiroshi Nakai

• Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
• Miyagi Prefecture

Mamoru Funakoshi

• Nagano Prefecture

Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu then Asada Tokunori

• Niigata Prefecture

Senda Sada Akatsuki

• Oita Prefecture: Baron Shirane Senitsu
• Okinawa Prefecture

Kanji Maruoka

• Osaka Prefecture

Nobumichi Yamada

• Saga Prefecture

Takaya Nagamine

• Saitama Prefecture

Tsunao Hayashi

• Shimame Prefecture: Goro Shinozaki then Oura Kanetake
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo

Tomita Tetsunosuke

• Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori
• Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

• Unknown date  - Nagoya Life Insurance, as predecessor of T&D Holdings has founded.

Births

• January 11  - Motoo Ōtaguro, music critic (d. 1979)
• May 15  - Fusae Ichikawa, politician and women's suffrage leader (d. 1981)
• October 20  - Noboru Ishizaki, admiral (d. 1959)

Deaths

• January 22  - Kawatake Mokuami, playwright (b. 1816)
• June 6  - Terashima Munenori, diplomat (b. 1832)
• December 5  - Matsudaira Katamori, samurai (b. 1836)

Notes and References

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