1886 in Japan
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Events in the year 1886 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 19 (明治19年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: [[]]
- Akita Prefecture: [[]]
- Aomori Prefecture: [[]]
- Ehime Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukui Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukuoka Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Gifu Prefecture: [[]]
- Gunma Prefecture: [[]]
- Hiroshima Prefecture: [[]]
- Ibaraki Prefecture: [[]]
- Ishikawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Iwate Prefecture: [[]]
- Kagawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Kanagawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Kumamoto Prefecture: [[]]
- Kochi Prefecture: [[]]
- Kyoto Prefecture: [[]]
- Mie Prefecture: [[]]
- Miyagi Prefecture: [[]]
- Miyazaki Prefecture: [[]]
- Nagano Prefecture: [[]]
- Nara Prefecture: [[]]
- Niigata Prefecture: [[]]
- Oita Prefecture: [[]]
- Okayama Prefecture: [[]]
- Okinawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Osaka Prefecture: [[]]
- Saga Prefecture: [[]]
- Saitama Prefecture: [[]]
- Shiname Prefecture: [[]]
- Tochigi Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokyo: [[]]
- Toyama Prefecture: [[]]
- Wakayama Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamagata Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[]]
Events
- January 26 - The Hokkaidō Agency opens, with its main office in Sapporo and branch offices in Hakodate and Nemuro.
Births
- January 28 – Hidetsugu Yagi, electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- February 10 – Raichō Hiratsuka, writer, journalist, political activist (d. 1971)
- February 20 – Takuboku Ishikawa, poet (d. 1912)
- February 23 – Yahiko Mishima, athlete (d. 1954)
- May 20 – Chieko Takamura, artist (d. 1938)
- June 9 – Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor (d. 1965)
- June 10 – Sessue Hayakawa, actor (d. 1973)
- June 18 – Tsuruko Haraguchi, psychologist and the first Japanese woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (d. 1915)
- July 17 – Chizuko Mifune, clairvoyant (d. 1911)
- July 20 – Misao Fujimura, student and poet (d. 1903)
- July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, writer and novelist (d. 1965)
- November 1
- Sakutarō Hagiwara, writer (d. 1942)
- Sumako Matsui, actress and singer (d. 1919)
- November 27 – Tsuguharu Foujita, painter (d. 1968)
References
- ^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
