The Meiji Period of Japanese history (1868-1912) saw both the development of industry and modernization and, also, the raising to the heights of many Japanese artistic endeavours. With the restoration of the Imperial Household to the capital city of Edo (Tokyo), it must have seemed at least to some extent to have been a golden age, as well as a bridge between the semi-mythic past and the ultimate defeat and humiliation of the future.
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