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Rokumeikan Era Westernization and High-Society Cultural Change (1883–1890s)

Rokumeikan Era Westernization and High-Society Cultural Change (1883–1890s)

  1. Inoue Kaoru backs Rokumeikan design commission

    Labels: Inoue Kaoru, Josiah Conder, Rokumeikan

  2. Construction of the Rokumeikan begins in Tokyo

    Labels: Rokumeikan, Tokyo site, Imperial Hotel

  4. Elite Western-style balls and receptions proliferate

    Labels: Rokumeikan, Elite balls, Charity bazaar

  5. Inoue Kaoru resigns amid treaty-revision backlash

    Labels: Inoue Kaoru, Treaty revision, Rokumeikan diplomacy

  6. Rokumeikan sold to kazoku association (Peers’ Club)

    Labels: Rokumeikan, Kazoku Peers, Peers' Club

  8. Tokyo earthquake damages the Rokumeikan

    Labels: Tokyo earthquake, Rokumeikan, Building damage

  9. Anglo-Japanese commerce treaty signed in London

    Labels: Anglo-Japanese Treaty, Britain, Japan

  10. Josiah Conder renovates and alters the building

    Labels: Josiah Conder, Rokumeikan, Peers' Club

  11. Unequal-treaty reforms take effect, extraterritoriality ends

    Labels: Unequal-treaty reforms, Extraterritoriality, Anglo-Japanese Treaty

  12. Rokumeikan building demolished during wartime period

    Labels: Rokumeikan, Demolition, Wartime Japan

  13. Yukio Mishima’s play "Rokumeikan" premieres

    Labels: Yukio Mishima, Play Rokumeikan, Theatre premiere

  14. Taniguchi and Tsuchikawa form Meiji building preservation foundation

    Labels: Yoshir Taniguchi, Motoo Tsuchikawa, Preservation foundation

  15. Meiji-mura open-air museum opens in Aichi

    Labels: Meiji-mura, Open-air museum, Meiji architecture