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Events in the year 1872 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Emperor Meiji[1]
 - Empress consort: Empress Shōken
 
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Iseki Ushitora (starting April 2)
 - Akita Prefecture: Shima Yoshitake (January 29-July 29), Sugio Magoshichiro (starting July 29)
 - Aomori Prefecture: J. Hishida
 - Fukui Prefecture: Kotobuki Murata
 - Fukushima Prefecture: 
- until January 20: Tomoharu Kiyooka
 - January 20-June 2: Miyahara
 - starting June 2: Taihe Yasujo
 
 - Gifu Prefecture: Joren Hasegawa
 - Gunma Prefecture: Sada Aoyama
 - Hiroshima Prefecture: Date Muneoki
 - Ibaraki Prefecture: 
- until July 10: Yamaguchi
 - August 8-August 13: Motsuke Nomura
 - starting August 25: Toru Watanabe
 
 - Iwate Prefecture: Korekiyo Shima
 - Kagawa Prefecture: 
- until October 17: Mohei Hayashi
 - October 17-November 28: Kan'ichi Nakamura
 - starting November 28: Mohei Hayashi
 
 - Kochi Prefecture: Yuzo Hayashi (until November 26), Iwasaki Nagatake (starting November 26)
 - Kyoto Prefecture: Hase Nobuatsu
 - Miyagi Prefecture: Ryo Shioya (starting January 8)
 - Nagano Prefecture: Tachiki Kenzen
 - Niigata Prefecture: Hirimatsu (starting November 20)
 - Oita Prefecture: Kei Morishita
 - Osaka Prefecture: Yotsutsuji Nishi
 - Saga Prefecture: 
- until July 12: Sadao Koga
 - July 12-December 22: Tesshu Yamaoka
 - starting December 22: Taku Shigeru
 
 - Saitama Prefecture: Morihide Nomura
 - Shiname Prefecture: 
- until March 30: Masami Terada
 - March 30-September 27: Tanenori Ikeda
 - starting September 27: Kamiyama Ren
 
 - Tochigi Prefecture: Miki Nabeshima
 - Tokyo: Yuri Kousei (until September 7), Tadahiro Okubo (starting September 7)
 - Toyama Prefecture: Miyoshi Zhou Liang
 - Yamagata Prefecture: ......
 
Events
- date unknown
- Tokyo National Museum is founded.[2]
 - The Imperial Library is established.[3]
 - Tomioka silk mill, Japan's first modern model silk reeling factory, is established by the government.
 - The Ryukyu Domain is created when the emperor changes the title of Shō Tai, the Ryukyu Kingdom's monarch (Ryūkyū-koku-ō), to that of a domain head (Ryūkyū-han-ō). The former Ryukyu Kingdom thus becomes a han.[4]
 
 
Births
- January 22 – Katai Tayama, novelist (d. 1930)
 - March 25 – Tōson Shimazaki, writer (d. 1943)
 - May 2 – Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (d. 1896)
 
Deaths
- February 10 - Prince Kitashirakawa Satonari, founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (born 1850)
 - March 28 - Nambu Nobuyuki, 9th and final daimyō of Hachinohe Domain (born 1814)
 
References
- ↑ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
 - ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.
 - ↑ "History". National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
 - ↑ Lin, Man-houng. "The Ryukyus and Taiwan in the East Asian Seas: A Longue Durée Perspective," Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. October 27, 2006, translated and abridged from Academia Sinica Weekly, No. 1084. 24 August 2006.
 
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