1893 in Japan

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in Japan → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1893 History of Japan Timeline Years

Events in the year 1893 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 26 (明治26年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Prime Minister: Itō Hirobumi

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo
• Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
• Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
• Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada then Kojiro Iwasaki
• Fukushima Prefecture: Yoshio Kusaka
• Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki then Michio Sokabe
• Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Nabeshima Miki
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Takasaki
• Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
• Kagawa Prefecture: Masao Tanimori then Baron Umashi Obata
• Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
• Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Akira Senda then Hiroshi Nakai
• Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
• Miyagi Prefecture: Mamoru Funakoshi
• Nagano Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu then Asada Tokunori
• Niigata Prefecture: Senda Sada Akatsuki
• Oita Prefecture: Baron Shirane Senitsu
• Okinawa Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka
• Osaka Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada
• Saga Prefecture: Takaya Nagamine
• Saitama Prefecture: Tsunao Hayashi
• Shimame Prefecture: Goro Shinozaki then Oura Kanetake
• Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
• Tokyo: Tomita Tetsunosuke
• Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori
• Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

• Unknown date – Nagoya Life Insurance, as predecessor of T&D Holdings has founded.^{[page needed]}

Births

• January 11 – Motoo Ōtaguro, music critic (d. 1979)
• May 15 – Fusae Ichikawa, politician and women's suffrage leader (d. 1981)
• October 20 – Noboru Ishizaki, admiral (d. 1959)

Deaths

• January 22 – Kawatake Mokuami, playwright (b. 1816)
• June 6 – Terashima Munenori, diplomat (b. 1832)
• December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori, samurai (b. 1836)

References

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