Proper noun
Meiji period
The 45-year reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912). During this time, Japan started its modernization and rose to world power status.
Buildings that remained from the Meiji period were to be used. Source: Internet
In the Meiji period (1868–1912), Shiki claimed the situation with waka should be rectified, and waka should be modernized in the same way as other things in the country. Source: Internet
Michener 1959, p. 200 Kobayashi 1997, p. 95 The rapid Westernization of the Meiji period that followed saw woodblock printing turn its services to journalism, and face competition from photography. Source: Internet
In the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of 1894, he succeeded in removing some of the onerous unequal treaty clauses that had plagued Japanese foreign relations since the start of the Meiji period. Source: Internet
Early in the 19th century, serious internal weaknesses developed in the Qing dynasty that left China vulnerable to Western, Meiji period Japanese, and Russian imperialism. Source: Internet
Emperor Meiji was restored to power and moved from Kyoto to the new capital of Edo, or Tokyo, beginning the Meiji period. Source: Internet