Meiji Restoration
Event · 1868–11 February 1889
The restoration of imperial rule — proclaimed on 3 January 1868 — and the reforms that followed1; the fall of Edo in the summer of 1868 ended the Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji era was proclaimed2. Mason 2005, pp. 342–343. ↩ Wikipedia, Meiji era, “Imperial restoration occurred the next year on January 3, 1868”. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Wikipedia, Meiji era: Anon., Meiji era, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_era (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).