← 1872 1871 1870 1873 in Japan → 1874 1875 1876
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1873 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year1873 inJapan.

• Monarch:Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Aichi Prefecture:Iseki Ushitora
• Akita Prefecture:Sugio Magoshichiro (until May 5),Senkichi Kokushi (starting May 5)
• Aomori Prefecture:J. Hishida
• Ehime Prefecture:Egi Yasunao
• Fukui Prefecture:Kotobuki Murata
• Fukushima Prefecture:Taihe Yasujo
• Gifu Prefecture:Joren Hasegawa
• Gunma Prefecture:Sada Aoyama (until November 2), vacant (starting November 2)
• Hiroshima Prefecture:Date Muneoki
• Ibaraki Prefecture:Toru Watanabe (starting September 9)
• Iwate Prefecture:Korekiyo Shima
• Kagawa Prefecture:Mohei Hayashi (until February 20)
• Kochi Prefecture:Iwasaki Nagatake
• Kyoto Prefecture:Hase Nobuatsu
• Mie Prefecture:Ryo Shioya
• Miyagi Prefecture:Tokisuke Miyagi
• Miyazaki Prefecture:Weiken Fukuyama
• Nagano Prefecture:Tachiki Kenzen thenNarasaki Hiroshi
• Niigata Prefecture:Kusumoto Masataka
• Oita Prefecture:Kei Morishita
• Osaka Prefecture:Norobu Watanabe
• Saga Prefecture:Taku Shigeru thenIshii Kuni thenMichitoshi Iwamura
• Saitama Prefecture:Morihide Nomura thenTasuke Shirane
• Shiname Prefecture:Kamiyama Ren
• Tochigi Prefecture:Iseki Ushitora
• Tokushima Prefecture:Nobuhiro Sato
• Tokyo:Miki Nabeshima
• Toyama Prefecture:Tadahiro Okubo
• Yamagata Prefecture: ......
• Yamaguchi Prefecture:Mishima Michitsune

• January 1 -Japan begins using theGregorian calendar.
• January 4 - With the adoption of the Western calendar, the five seasonal festivals (gosekku) —Jinjitsu on January 7,Jōshi on March 3,Tango on May 5,Tanabata on July 7 andChōyō on September 9) — are abolished.

• 1873 in Japan
• 1870s in Japan
• 1873 by country
• Years of the 19th century in Japan

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