One finding indicates that Japanese artisans were involved in embroidery for the dress, one of several worn by the consort to Emperor Meiji ... from the Momoyama Period (late 16th century).

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

and considers the changing gender roles of the period, the end of samurai status, the creation of a Meiji bureaucracy, and the growing embrace of modern conveniences as seen in clothing items and ...

From the 1870s through the 1920s, Japan underwent rapid and widespread modernization and nation-building. In the Meiji period, Japanese leaders looked to European models of constitutional monarchy, ...