1872 in Japan

Events in the year 1872 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji
• Empress consort: Empress Shōken

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Iseki Ushitora (starting April 2)
• Akita Prefecture: Shima Yoshitake (January 29-July 29), Sugio Magoshichiro (starting July 29)
• Aomori Prefecture: J. Hishida
• Fukui Prefecture: Kotobuki Murata
• Fukushima Prefecture:
• until January 20: Tomoharu Kiyooka
• January 20-June 2: Miyahara
• starting June 2: Taihe Yasujo
• Gifu Prefecture: Joren Hasegawa
• Gunma Prefecture: Sada Aoyama
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Date Muneoki
• Ibaraki Prefecture:
• until July 10: Yamaguchi
• August 8-August 13: Motsuke Nomura
• starting August 25: Toru Watanabe
• Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima
• Kagawa Prefecture:
• until October 17: Mohei Hayashi
• October 17-November 28: Kan'ichi Nakamura
• starting November 28: Mohei Hayashi
• Kochi Prefecture: Yuzo Hayashi (until November 26), Iwasaki Nagatake (starting November 26)
• Kyoto Prefecture: Hase Nobuatsu
• Miyagi Prefecture: Ryo Shioya (starting January 8)
• Nagano Prefecture: Tachiki Kenzen
• Niigata Prefecture: Hirimatsu (starting November 20)
• Oita Prefecture: Kei Morishita
• Osaka Prefecture: Yotsutsuji Nishi
• Saga Prefecture:
• until July 12: Sadao Koga
• July 12-December 22: Tesshu Yamaoka
• starting December 22: Taku Shigeru
• Saitama Prefecture: Morihide Nomura
• Shiname Prefecture:
• until March 30: Masami Terada
• March 30-September 27: Tanenori Ikeda
• starting September 27: Kamiyama Ren
• Tochigi Prefecture: Miki Nabeshima
• Tokyo: Yuri Kousei (until September 7), Tadahiro Okubo (starting September 7)
• Toyama Prefecture: Miyoshi Zhou Liang
• Yamagata Prefecture: ......

Events

• date unknown
• Tokyo National Museum is founded.
• The Imperial Library is established.
• Tomioka silk mill, Japan's first modern model silk reeling factory, is established by the government.
• The Ryukyu Domain is created when the emperor changes the title of Shō Tai, the Ryukyu Kingdom's monarch (RyÅ«kyÅ«-koku-ō), to that of a domain head (RyÅ«kyÅ«-han-ō). The former Ryukyu Kingdom thus becomes a han.

Births

• January 22 – Katai Tayama, novelist (d. 1930)
• March 25 – Tōson Shimazaki, writer (d. 1943)
• May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (d. 1896)

Deaths

• February 10 - Prince Kitashirakawa Satonari, founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (born 1850)
• March 28 - Nambu Nobuyuki, 9th and final daimyō of Hachinohe Domain (born 1814)

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