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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Taisho period
On July 30, 1912, The Meiji emperor died and his Crown Prince Yoshihito succeded the throne, beginning the Taisho period.
The beginning of the Taisho period was marked by a political crisis that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise.
The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic clique of "elder statesmen" (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ta/Taisho_period   (2435 words)

  
 Articles: Taisho Artwork
Noritake was the largest exporter of porcelain to the United States during the Taisho period.
By Taisho times, incredibly efficient looms and beautifully vibrant chemical dyes allowed silk and kimono merchants to create textiles which were quickly and inexpensively mass produced.
Their extensive collections of Taisho period Noritake porcelain make it a worthwhile trip for any enthusiast of Japanese porcelain.
www.robynbuntin.com /Articles/taisho.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Tomita Keisen / Autumn in Ohara / Taisho period, 1921
Tomita Keisen / Autumn in Ohara / Taisho period, 1921
This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works.
www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico935340-21811.html   (287 words)

  
 exhibitions
In the Taisho period(1912-26) ehen many distinctive artists came out, Yorozu was a quite isolated figure, vigorously adopting modern Western trends on one hand, and trying to create works stemming fromthe nature of his dwelling places on the other.
Impressed by the contemporary European art trends, Yorozu became a founder-member of the Fyuzankai(Fusain Society) at the turn from the Meiji period(1868-1912) to the Taisho period.Fyuzankai was a group fo artists who was against the prevalence of the plein-air exptression as the norm.
Yorozu's art may seem to have followed the similar course as sisi the Japanese art in the Taisho period, that is, from the acceptance of the Western avant-garde to the return to the Japanese tradition.
www.pref.iwate.jp /~hp0922/engexhibit.htm   (1096 words)

  
  JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
Japanese culture of this period was influenced by the Tang Dynasty in China.
The Momoyama period marks the end of a long period of civil strife (as feudal clans fought for control during the latter half of the 15th century) and the beginning of a era of unification under Oda Nobunaga.
The early part of the Showa period was a period of Japanese Imperialism during which Japan went to war with China, then, after bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States and the Allied Forces.
www.japancorner.com /cultural-history.asp   (1416 words)

  
  Top Literature - Taisho Period
The Taishō period (Japanese: 大正時代, Taishō-jidai, "period of great righteousness"), or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, which coincides exactly with the reign of Emperor Taishō.
The end of the Meiji period was marked by huge government domestic and overseas investments and defense programs, nearly exhausted credit, and a lack of foreign reserves to pay debts.
The beginning of the Taishō period was marked by The Taisho political crisis in 1912/1913 that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise.
encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Taisho_Period   (2734 words)

  
 Taisho_period   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Taisho period From Sterwiki The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations.
The title with diacritics is: Template:Unicode History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Taishō period (大正 Taishō, lit.
The beginning of the Taishō period was marked by a political crisis that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise.
www.news-from-newspapers.com /en/Wikipedia.org/2005/04/17/Taisho_period.html   (2612 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Taisho period
On July 30, 1912, The Meiji emperor died and his Crown Prince Yoshihito succeded the throne, beginning the Taishō period.
The end of the Meiji era was marked by huge government domestic and overseas investments and defense programs, nearly exhausted credit, and a lack of foreign exchange to pay debts.
In 1918 Hara Takashi (1856-1921), a protege of Saionji and a major influence in the prewar Seiyūkai cabinets, had become the first commoner to serve as prime minister.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Taisho_period   (2692 words)

  
 TAISHO CHIC: JAPANESE MODERNITY, NOSTALGIA, AND DECO   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco, by Kendall H. Brown and Sharon A. Minichiello.
During this period, as Japan was becoming an international power, the gap, born in the Meiji era, between a traditional agriculturally based population and the modern industrial sector widened.
Long overlooked by scholars, the Taisho era is now being seen as a significant artistic period as well as cultural phenomenon, largely thanks to the connoisseurship of the art dealer Patricia Salmon, from whom the bulk of the collection on view was purchased by the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 1987.
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu /exhibits/taisho/content.html   (903 words)

  
 The SakuShuKan Aikido Dojo
The majority of references date this period from 900 to 1596 which is the beginning of the Keicho-reign era and about the time swords were confiscated from farmers and commoners.
This period terminates at the restoration of the emperor Mutsuhito in 1868 and in 1876 wearing the sword was prohibited by law.
During the Gendaito period, not all swords were made by the orthodox methods of hand forging-shaping and the water-quench tempering process.
www.desruisseaux.com /aikido/english/iaido-swordhistory.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Outdoor Japan - General Informaion - Japanese History and Government Administration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This period was marked by the building of large tomb mounds that indicated Yayoi Period social stratification.
The Tale of Genji was written during this period, and the Fujiwara family dominated the Imperial court.
The latter part of the Muromachi Period is known as the Sengoku Period (1467 - 1568), an age of chronic civil strife which lasted from the Onin War (1467 - 1507) until the unification of the country by Nobunaga Oda in 1568.
www.outdoorjapan.com /general-info/general-info-10.html   (422 words)

  
 Japanese Popular Literature
Period fiction (jidai shôsetsu) is one of the most confusing categorizations within popular literature because of its close ties to historical fiction (rekishi shôsetsu).
Period fiction, as a popular form of fiction portraying the life of pre-Meiji years, is a field that has not received much academic attention.
Organized by historical periods from pre-Meiji to early Shôwa Period, it is a good place to turn to get a sense of the issues that have been addressed by past scholars on children's literature in various historical periods, especially because it provides an overview of the essays that appear in the work.
www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/00poplit_sato.htm   (2987 words)

  
 Taisho Chic BAM/PFA Berkeley - Pressrelease
The Taisho era was a brief but dynamic period in Japan's modern development that is often described as a Japanese version of the Roaring Twenties.
Guest curated by Kendall H. Brown, Taisho Chic has a special focus on art and objects associated with women, whose fashions, behavior, and changing roles exemplify the simultaneous clash and embrace of modernity and tradition in Japan in the twenties and thirties.
The Berkeley presentation of Taisho Chic has been supported by the Consortium for the Arts and The Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley.
www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1126603983   (851 words)

  
 Taisho Chic
The Taisho period, loosely the first three decades of the twentieth century, was a dynamic era in Japan.
In his essay and catalogue entries, art historian Kendall Brown first examines how women were at the center of the socio-cultural debate on Japanese modernity, then details how artists helped fashion various female types, including the modern girl, the traditional beauty, and a new type of hybrid woman.
The nihonga paintings, woodblock prints, textiles, and domestic artifacts discussed and illustrated here are a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, and reconstruct the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho- Chic.
www.freersacklershop.com /taishochic.html   (285 words)

  
 TAISHO / Exhibition captures a period when Japan struggled to define its place in the world
His successor, Emperor Taisho, looked the part, but his physical and mental limitations brought about the appointment of Crown Prince Hirohito as regent in 1921 until Hirohito assumed the throne in 1926.
Indeed, the kimono made its last creative stand during the Taisho era, according to Liza Dalby, the cultural anthropologist and author who gave the first in a series of lectures scheduled to coincide with the exhibition, which originated at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and will stop in Tokyo before heading home to the islands.
Girls adopted sailor-suit school uniforms during this period, the style that remains in use both in reality and in the fantasy worlds of manga and anime.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/09/LVGHAF2H4S1.DTL&type=printable   (1304 words)

  
 Taishō period Summary
Japan's Taisho period (1912–1926) was the period of the reign of the Taisho emperor, the son and successor of the Meiji emperor, during whose reign Japan had ended its long isolation from most of the rest of the world and began its quick modernization.
The Taisho period started on a liberal note, with so-called Taisho Democracy, a national movement to protect constitutional government and to democratize not only politics but also the economy, education, and other areas of culture.
The Taisho period can be divided into the pre–World War I period and the postwar period.
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 Modernization
In the Meiji Period (1868-1912), amid the upheavals continuing after Meiji Restoration, when the country was opened up to the rest of the world, the construction world turned to the incorporation of western elements.
The well-known the ryoba, double-edged combination rip and crosscut saw, and the double cutting iron (awaseganna) were studied and improved, and we saw the incorporation of the western element of the screw in new varieties of planes and marking devices.
Then the Taisho Period (1912-1926) and Showa Period (1926-1989) rang in the last chapter of the history of hand tools, as the introduction of electric power tools, starting around 1955, brought about a decline in their use, a change that is increasing in speed even today.
www.dougukan.jp /archive/eng/B25e.html   (665 words)

  
 Taisho period   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic cliqueof "elder statesmen" (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
On July 30, 1912, The Meiji emperor died andhis Crown Prince Yoshihito succeded the throne, beginning the Taisho period.
Despite its small role in World War I (and the Western powers' rejection of its bid for a racial equality clause in the peace treaty), Japan emerged as a major actorin international politics at the close of the war.
spanish.therfcc.org /taisho-period-35493.html   (2301 words)

  
 Huashan Culture Park
During the period under Japanese colonial rule, it was renamed in 1922 to “Kabayama Town”.
The “Taipei Winery” was first established in 1916 (5 th Year of the Taisho Period) during the Japanese colonial period as the privately owned Houjou winery which made rice wine, the “Butterfly Orchid” sake, and ginseng liqueur.
In 1922 (11 th Year of the Taisho Period) the Japanese Government purchased the winery as part of its alcohol monopoly policy, and began expanding the winery for producing rice wines and other double-distilled liqueurs.
huashan.cca.gov.tw /english/english_01.htm   (355 words)

  
 Knitting in Japan, Part 1, Pasge 2
The outbreak of the First World War, just after the end of the Meiji Period, provided Japanese exporters the opportunity to sell to countries that were no longer able to obtain their textile products from France, Germany or the United Kingdom.
The Taisho Period (1912-1926) was already two years old by the outbreak of the First World War in Europe.
At the conclusion of the First World War Japan's transitionary period from it's centuries of isolation into a modern industrial power was not entirely complete, but the West was now aware for the first time of the importance of the Japanese economy as well as her strategic importance in the East.
www.knitjapan.co.uk /j_select/pages/japanknitting_pt2_p3.php   (501 words)

  
 Taisho period   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Thus, the era is considered the time of the liberal movement known as the "Taishō democracy" in Japan; it is usually distinguished from the preceding chaotic Meiji period and the following militarism-driven Shōwa Era.
On July 30, 1912, the Meiji Emperor (明治天皇 Meiji Tennō) died and Crown Prince Yoshihito (嘉仁) succeeded the throne, beginning the Taishō period.
The end of the Meiji period was marked by huge government domestic and overseas investments and defense programs, nearly exhausted credit, and a lack of foreign exchange to pay debts.
www.guideofpills.com /Taisho_period.html   (2786 words)

  
 Japanese Art History
The Edo period is also called the Tokugawa period after the name of the shogunate that ruled over Japan for 256 years.
From a cultural point of view, the Edo period maybe was something like the pop culture of "swinging London" in the sixties and early seventies of the 20th century.
This period is also called the Meiji restoration, because the emperor regained the power as actual head of state after hundreds of years of the shogunate.
www.artelino.com /articles/japanese_history.asp   (753 words)

  
 Publications/NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Preceded by the Meiji period in which Japan was transformed into a modern nation and followed by the Showa period in which imperial Japan collapsed to give way to a democratic nation, it is often regarded as a low-profile period.
It was also a period in which, as in the Meiji period, many of the foundations for systems that continue to exist until today were established under the influence of the Industrial Revolution in Western countries, which had continued from the 19th century, and other developments.
Kosugi was involved in the compilation of the Taisho 3 (1914) edition of the catalogues of Chinese books for the Cabinet Library during his period of service at the Library.
www.archives.go.jp /en/pub/kita_36.html   (1893 words)

  
 Session 200
The Taishô period, already characterized as the heyday of the Japanese "I-novel," was also the most productive era for Japanese self-portraiture.
For the most part, critics concentrate on his later works from the Shôwa (1926–1989) period, such as Shunkinshô (Portrait of Shunkin, 1933), Kagi (The Key, 1956) or Fûten rôjin nikki (Diary of a Mad Old Man, 1961–62).
Tanizaki’s early and mid-Taishô period (1912–1926) works have generally been viewed as schematic and immature, reflecting the author’s prurient interest in decadence more than literary achievement.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1999abst/japan/j-200.htm   (893 words)

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