Year in Japan
1873 in Japanese History
14 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tatsukichi Minobe 美濃部達吉 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar (1873–1948)
- Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni 久邇宮邦彦王 · Politician — Japanese prince (1873-1929)
- Kyōka Izumi 泉鏡花 · Writer — Japanese writer (1873-1939)
- Tekkan Yosano 与謝野鉄幹 · Writer — Japanese writer (1873–1935)
- Kanzan Shimomura 下村観山 · Painter — Japanese painter (1873-1930)
- Kan'ichi Asakawa 朝河貫一 · Historian — Japanese historian (1873–1948)
- Masaharu Anesaki 姉崎正治 · Philosopher — Japanese scholar of religion, critic (1873–1949)
- Prince Yamashina Kikumaro 山階宮菊麿王 · Politician — Japanese prince (1873-1908)
- Shin'ichirō Nishi 西晋一郎 · Philosopher — Japanese ethicist
- Hajime Seki 關一 · Politician — Japanese political scientist (1873-1935)
- Hekigotō Kawahigashi 河東碧梧桐 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer (1873–1937)
- Tsunashima Ryōsen 綱島梁川 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher (1873–1907)
- Kumoemon Tochuken 桃中軒雲右衛門 · Musician — Japanese musician
- Kiyoshi Kawakami 河上清 · Journalist — Japanese writer (1873-1949)
Reading the year 1873 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1873 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 6 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".
The year itself is read 1873年 (1873ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 19th century for its neighbours.