A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) with assistance from his poet wife. It was ...

Keene does examine Meiji's poems and anecdotes from acquaintances ... Keene must resort to speculation about how the emperor "must have felt" at particular moments. Keene is obviously attracted ...

They brought the 12-year-old emperor, Mutsuhito (pictured, seated, when older), to Edo, which they renamed Tokyo, or Eastern Capital. He chose meiji (“enlightened”) as the name for his rule.

In January exactly 150 years ago, the Meiji Emperor officially declared the restoration of imperial rule in Japan, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the beginning of Japan's ...

The year 1912 is recorded in Japan both as the 45th year of Meiji Era and the first year of the Taisho Era. After a protracted illness, Emperor Mutsuhito expired, age 61, on the night of July 29 ...

Histories of the Meiji Restoration generally focus on the remarkable social, political, and economic transformation of Japan from a feudal system to a modern industrial society, but the personage of ...