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editEmpire Day (Kigensetsu), 1878
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Yamazaki Toshinobu (1857-1886) |
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Empire Day (Kigensetsu), 1878 |
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The new Meiji government established 11 February as a national holiday to commemorate the mythological founding of Japan by Jinmu Tenno in 660 BC. The text describes how the imperial family and officials gatheres to perform rituals on this day in 1878. This colour print was a supplement to a popular daily newspaper, Choya Simbun |
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| Date | 1878 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | colour woodblock | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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JA 1949.5-14.010 |
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| Source/Photographer | Own work, Photo by Szilas in the British Museum, 2010-08-03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10:41, 28 February 2023 |  | 1,364 × 2,035 (3.72 MB) | Szilas (talk | contribs) | {{Artwork |artist = Yamazaki Toshinobu (1857-1886) |title = Empire Day (Kigensetsu), 1878 |description = The new Meiji government established 11 February as a national holiday to commemorate the mythological founding of Japan by Jinmu Tenno in 660 BC. The text describes how the imperial family and officials gatheres to perform rituals on this day in 1878. This colour print was a supplement to a popular daily newspaper, Choya Simbun |date = 1878 |obje... |
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