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The 51 pages that link to Meiji era, each with the reason it gives.

• Meiji RestorationNarrower topic: The restoration began this broader era of political, social, and economic transformation.

• Edo periodBroader topic: It inherited the country unified under Tokugawa rule while dismantling its old political order.

• Meiji ConstitutionNarrower topic: The constitution formalized the political system built during this period.

• Japanese era nameBroader topic: It established the modern practice of one era for an emperor’s reign.

• Japanese calendarRelated: The Gregorian calendar was adopted during the Meiji government’s modernization drive.

• Japanese woodblock printingRelated: New technologies and markets altered the place of traditional woodblock printing after 1868.

• Emperor MeijiNarrower topic: The era’s reforms and conflicts unfolded during his reign.

• BonsaiRelated: Bonsai gained wider public visibility as Japan modernized and presented its arts abroad.

• Japanese writing systemRelated: Modern schooling and print culture during the Meiji period helped standardize written Japanese.

• AutarkyBroader topic: Japan's industrialization illustrates efforts to gain economic independence while expanding international trade.

• CloisonnéRelated: Meiji-era artists refined Japanese cloisonné and produced works for domestic and international markets.

• Masaoka ShikiNarrower topic: Shiki’s literary reforms unfolded amid the era’s wider transformation of Japanese institutions and culture.

• Natsume SōsekiNarrower topic: Sōseki’s career unfolded as Japan renegotiated institutions, education, and identity.

• Shinbutsu-shūgōRelated: Meiji religious reforms ended the official institutional arrangements that had sustained shrine-temple blending.

• D. T. SuzukiNarrower topic: Suzuki’s education and career began amid Japan’s reorganization of religion and scholarship.

• I-novelNarrower topic: Modern literary forms and debates about the self developed amid Meiji-era modernization.

• Mori ŌgaiNarrower topic: Ōgai’s career unfolded as Japan reorganized its institutions and encountered Western culture.

• Percival LowellRelated: Lowell’s travels in Japan and Korea led to several books before he turned to astronomy.

• Japanese regnal yearsBroader topic: The Meiji era institutionalized the rule linking one era to one emperor’s reign.

• Calendar eraBroader topic: It exemplifies the modern Japanese practice of naming years by imperial reign.

• Tokyo Imperial UniversityRelated: The university was founded during this period of institutional transformation.

• Utagawa KuniyoshiRelated: Kuniyoshi’s pupils carried ukiyo-e practices into the print culture of the new era.

• Japanese New YearRelated: The government adopted the Gregorian calendar during this era, changing the date of New Year.

• Taishō eraNarrower topic: The Taishō era inherited the institutions and rapid modernization built under Meiji.

• Emperor TaishōCompared with: It preceded Taishō’s reign and set the institutional conditions he inherited.

• Fossa MagnaNarrower topic: Naumann’s geological surveys took place during Japan’s expansion of modern scientific research.

• Hiratsuka RaichōNarrower topic: Raichō grew up as new education and social roles for women were being contested.

• KatsudonRelated: Western-style cooking and pork dishes gained wider presence in Japan during this period.

• KimigayoNarrower topic: Kimigayo took its modern musical form as Japan built institutions of the Meiji state.

• KitamaebuneNarrower topic: Kitamaebune continued into this era before steam transport transformed maritime trade.

• Lafcadio HearnNarrower topic: Hearn arrived during this upheaval, when Japan’s traditions and institutions were being transformed.

• Meiji ShrineNarrower topic: The shrine's founders memorialized figures who embodied this transformative era.

• TonkatsuRelated: The opening to Western influences during this era set the stage for cutlet dishes in Japan.

• YokosukaNarrower topic: Yokosuka’s arsenal emerged from the Meiji government’s drive to build a modern navy.

• GyūdonRelated: The era’s new openness to beef eating set the cultural conditions for gyūdon.

• I Am a CatNarrower topic: The novel’s human characters debate social changes unfolding during this period.

• James Curtis HepburnRelated: Hepburn’s later work unfolded during the era of Japan’s political and social transformation.

• Japanese curryRelated: Curry spread in Japan as institutions and foodways changed during modernization.

• Japanese sculptureBroader topic: Modernization and new art institutions recast sculpture as an autonomous fine art.

• RickshawRelated: Urban changes during this era helped create demand for new passenger transport.

• ShakuRelated: Japan standardized and redefined traditional measures while modernizing its measurement system.

• SharakuNarrower topic: Sharaku’s international reputation grew amid renewed foreign interest in Japanese art during this era.

• Sōsaku-hangaNarrower topic: Modernization reshaped the institutions and audiences in which Japanese printmakers worked.

• Toyohara ChikanobuRelated: The period supplied the contemporary subjects and historical transitions he depicted.

• Ichiyō HiguchiNarrower topic: Higuchi’s fiction depicts a society being reshaped during this period.

• Isawa ShūjiNarrower topic: Isawa’s career unfolded during this period of institution-building and educational reform.

• Kitarō NishidaNarrower topic: Nishida’s education and career unfolded as Japan encountered imported institutions and ideas.

• Oguri KozukenosukeNarrower topic: The modernization pursued under Meiji rule gave lasting form to ambitions Oguri had advanced under the shogunate.

• Shibata ZeshinNarrower topic: Zeshin continued working as Japan’s institutions and artistic markets changed.

• Tanaka HisashigeRelated: His later work bridged Edo craftsmanship and the Meiji state’s demand for modern technology.