Meiji kaiko tenrankai mokuroku 明治回顧展覧會目録.

Editor/Compiler: 國立國会圖書館., 朝日新聞社

Publisher: Ueno Toshokan 上野図書館

Publication year: 1949

From Nov. 6 to 12, 1949, the National Diet Library, with the support from the Asahi Shimbun, organized this exhibition at the historical Imperial Library building near the Ueno Park in Tokyo. In the early postwar Japan, the history of Meiji Restoration came into the spotlight of public discourse as the country was facing another radical transformation. The exhibition showed 573 titles from the NDL’s collection of Meiji materials, which it claimed made up less than a third of its entire collection on Meiji era. The exhibition was broken into three parts: politics (seiji), economics and industrial development (keizai), and literature (bungaku). It offers a window into both the dominant cultural production of the Meiji era and the postwar (re)memories of the beginning of Japan’s “modern” era.