Promulgation of the Meiji Constitution
大日本帝国憲法発布
Event · proclamation · 11 February 1889 · Tokyo, Japan
On 11 February 1889 the emperor proclaimed the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, drafted after Itō Hirobumi’s studies in Europe1; the next year he opened the Diet, its legislature modelled on the British parliament2. NDL, 大日本帝国憲法の制定, 「明治22（1889）年2月11日大日本帝国憲法が発布された」. ↩ Mason 2005, pp. 344–345. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. NDL, 大日本帝国憲法の制定: 大日本帝国憲法の制定, in: 史料にみる日本の近代, https://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/cha2/index.html (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026).