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period
period unit of time on the geologic timescale . Periods are shorter than an era and longer than an epoch. Periods are of variable length, generally lasting tens of millions of years, with characteristic fossils found preserved in the sediments deposited during the period. It is also used to design... Read more
Meiji restoration
Meiji restoration The term refers to both the events of 1868 that led to the "restoration" of power to the emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868-1912). The power of the Tokugawa shogunate, weakened by debt and internal div... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen
Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen Periodic Table of the Elements: Hydrogen Atomic Number: 1 Atomic Symbol: H   Hydrogen Atomic Weight: 1.00794 Electron Configuration: 1 ... Read more
Meiji
Meiji , 1852-1912, reign name of the emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912; his given name was Mutsuhito. He ascended the throne when he was 15. A year later the shogun fell, and the power that had been held by the Tokugawa military house was returned to the emperor. This was the Meiji restoration... Read more
bushido
bushido [Jap.,=way of the warrior], code of honor and conduct of the Japanese nobility. Of ancient origin, it grew out of the old feudal bond that required unwavering loyalty on the part of the vassal. It borrowed heavily from Zen Buddhism and Confucianism. In its fullest expression the code emphas... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron
Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron Periodic Table of the Elements: Boron Atomic Number: 5 Atomic Symbol: B   Boron Atomic Weight: 10.81 Electron Configuration: 2 &middo... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Carbon
Periodic Table of the Elements: Carbon Periodic Table of the Elements: Carbon Atomic Number: 6 Atomic Symbol: C   Carbon Atomic Weight: 12.011 Electron Configuration: 2 &m... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine
Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine Periodic Table of the Elements: Fluorine Atomic Number: 9 Atomic Symbol: F   Fluorine Atomic Weight: 18.998403 Electron Configuration: 2&... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Nitrogen
Periodic Table of the Elements: Nitrogen Periodic Table of the Elements: Nitrogen Atomic Number: 7 Atomic Symbol: N   Nitrogen Atomic Weight: 14.0067 Electron Configuration: 2&th... Read more
Periodic Table of the Elements: Phosphorus
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Encyclopedia entries related to "Meiji period"

Meiji Restoration
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1868) shogun and elevated Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito, 1852 – 1912...Viewed expansively, however, the Meiji Restoration was more than a mere...transformation, achieved during the Meiji period (1868 – 1912), that...
Meiji restoration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...emperor and the entire period of revolutionary changes that coincided with the Meiji emperor's reign (1868...W. G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (1972...Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (1985); M. Umegaki...
Meiji
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...a new and modern state. Emperor Meiji himself had little political power...Japanese War (1904-5). When the Meiji period ended in 1912, Japan was a world...1968); W. G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (1972); P. Akamatsu...
Japan
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...the modernizing reforms of the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912...1868 revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, the transitional period between the arrival of American...of reliability). Once the Meiji Restoration was accomplished...
Shinto
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...During the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), a shift...reached its peak during the Meiji period (1868-1912) and the...portions of the Showa period (1926-1989), when...in the words of the Meiji Constitution (1889...
genro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...collective leadership in Japan from the end of the Meiji period until c.1932. After the Meiji restoration (1868), Westernizers from the...or elder statesmen, came into use in this period. For two decades this small group provided stable...
Japanese
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...and Polynesia. By the Heian Period (AD 794 – 1185...Parties are now going through a period of reorientation. Mythology...goddess. Since the late Yamato Period (AD 300 – 710...claimed to act in his name. The Meiji government (1868 –...
Shigenobu Okuma
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...supporter of the emperor and entered the Meiji government as finance minister in 1869...minister in 1896 and 1897, and during this period the unequal clauses in the treaties were...Constitutional party) and Okuma served for a brief period as prime minister. During his second...
Hirohito
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...emperor of Japan. He reigned during a period of internal unrest, foreign expansion...and the grandson of Mutsuhito, the Meiji emperor. Following long-established...The Manchurian incident ushered in a period of serious unrest within Japan. Young...
Soseki Natsume
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...greatest Japanese novelists of the modern period. In his fiction and essays he displays...fortunes, however, declined after the Meiji restoration of 1868. An unhappy childhood, including a period spent with foster parents, and the realization...

Dictionary entries related to "Meiji period"

Meiji Constitution
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Meiji Constitution (1884–89) The...modelled on the existing German form, the Meiji Constitution was gradually developed from...manhood suffrage), policy in the earlier period was usually dominated by a group of highly...
Meiji
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Meiji the period when Japan was ruled by the emperor Meiji Tenno (1868–1912), marked by the modernization and westernization of the country.
Meiji Restoration
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Meiji Restoration. The restoration of the Japanese...national life. The restoration of power to the Meiji emperor had serious repercussions for Buddhism...Buddhism over Shintō. For a short period, Buddhism was even officially proscribed...
Modernity: East Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...popularized in the sense of "modern period" by translations of European works in Meiji time. It was soon replaced by kindai...Civilization and Enlightenment: Meiji Japan (1868 – 1912) The Meiji Restoration set the stage for the...
Japanese religion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...BUDDHISM ), but by the Heian period it developed into the religion...the feudal era in the Kamakura period, when classical Japanese court...restoration government of Emperor Meiji moved toward making State Shinto...Tokugawa era and beginning of the Meiji era were categorized as Sect...
Kokka Shintō
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Shinto shrines, ceremonies, and education which the government administered from the early Meiji period until the end of the Second World War. The Meiji government attempted to provide a sense of national and cultural identity by restoring the...
Shintō
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Later, in the Edo period (1603–1867), Shintō...emperor and Buddhism with the warlords. When the Meiji emperor came to power in 1868 (see Meiji Restoration ), he declared a policy of sundering...
samurai
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...the central government in the medieval period, local nobles were able to recruit their...x14D;gunate in 1192 (see kamakura period ) ushered in an era of military rule that lasted until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The relationship...
Yoshida Shintō
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...on in the Yoshida priestly family since the Heian period was summarized and systematized by Yoshida Kanetomo...was widely spread in Japan from the later medieval period until the Meiji Restoration and was influential in appointments to...
Lyman, Benjamin Smith
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...survey of oil fields in the Punjab. The Meiji government of Japan invited experts from...on a scale of 1:5,000. In the same period Lyman visited other areas on Hokkaido...Japan, ” written during this period, includes a geological map of the Niigata...

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Jingu Kogo ema in Southwestern Japan: reflections and anticipations of the seikanron debate in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji period.
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the Tokugawa period to the early Meiji period. This essay analyzes the role...during the late Tokugawa--early Meiji period might initially appear unusual...major works, The Culture of the Meiji Period, directly criticizes the great...
Exhibit reveals splendor of Japan's Meiji period art
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/14/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...explores art produced during the Meiji Period, a brief and intense span that bridged...the last shogun resigned. The new Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito, made sweeping...Eager to entice the West, the Meiji artists focused on themes that seem...
Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence
Magazine article from: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...restoration during the late Edo Period, this article will focus in particular on the period from the Meiji Restoration (1868...KEYWORDS: Edo Buddhism - Meiji Buddhism - Tsuji Zennosuke...overcoming the concept of "period of decline" are two...
MEIJI UNIVERSITY CHOOSES THOMSON SCIENTIFIC'S CENTURY OF SCIENCE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/3/2008; 700+ words ; ...PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Meiji is the First Private University...TM) has been purchased by Meiji University in Japan, expanding...reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. "The purchase...Science is right in line with Meiji University's goals to provide...
Meiji University Chooses Thomson Scientific's Century of Science.
PR Newswire; 3/3/2008; 700+ words ; Meiji is the First Private University...TM) has been purchased by Meiji University in Japan, expanding...reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. "The purchase...Science is right in line with Meiji University's goals to provide...
Meiji Yasuda's predecessor accused of hiding taxable income.
Newspaper article from: Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan); 5/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...authorities have charged Meiji Life Insurance Co., one of the two predecessors of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co...income in a three-year period to March 2001 in connection...the money, which it said Meiji Life had paid to Commerz...
A.M. BEST AFFIRMS RATINGS OF MEIJI YASUDA LIFE INSURANCE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/31/2009; 700+ words ; ...improvement of profitability, Meiji Yasuda is focusing on enhancing...operating expenses. In addition, Meiji Yasuda achieved further progress...persistency ratio during the same period. Since the start of the new...fiscal year 2005, known as the "Meiji Yasuda Revitalization Plan...
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company; Revises Outlook of Issuer Credit Rating to Negative.
Business Wire; 3/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...improvement of profitability, Meiji Yasuda is focusing on enhancing...operating expenses. In addition, Meiji Yasuda achieved further progress...persistency ratio during the same period. Since the start of the new...fiscal year 2005, known as the "Meiji Yasuda Revitalization Plan...
Another Meiji Restoration?
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/24/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...end of the Edo-Tokugawa period in the first half of the 19th century, and just before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as one...end of the Edo-Tokugawa period, the philosophy of the pre-Meiji period turned massively towards what...
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...and actions and the extent to which Meiji helped to shape, not merely symbolize...understanding of the complex tapestry of Meiji-period life. Throughout the narrative, Keene is able to show that Meiji injected himself into social and...