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 | | The Meiji Restoration (Meiji ishin) followed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868; the 15th and last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, abdicated in X/1867, while Imperial rule was officially declared on I/3/1868), representing the Emperor's return to supremacy and the beginning of long-term political and social reformation for the modernization of Japan. |
 | | The shini-e as a commonly encountered genre appears to have disappeared by Meiji 37 with the deaths of the triumvirate of Meiji-period Tokyo superstars known as Dan-Kiku-Sa, namely, Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (1839-1903), Onoe Kikugorô V, 1844-1903), and Ichikawa Sandanji I (1842-1904). |
 | | Tenpô kaikaku: "Tenpô Reforms," governmental regulations of 1842-1847 initiated by Mizuno Tadakuni (1774-1851), chief councilor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi. |
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