Deaths in the 1890s
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Ryōkichi Yatabe
1851–1899 (age 48)
Yanaka Cemetery
Ryōkichi Yatabe (矢田部良吉; October 13, 1851 – August 8, 1899) was a Japanese botanist during the Meiji era.
Konakamura Kiyonori
1822–1895 (age 73)
Yanaka Cemetery
Konakamura Kiyonori (1822–1895) was a Japanese politician during the Meiji period, buried at Yanaka Cemetery.
Ichijō Mikako
1835–1894 (age 59)
Yanaka Cemetery
Ichijō Mikako (一条美賀子; later Tokugawa Mikako 徳川 美賀子) was a Japanese noble woman and wife to Tokugawa...
Tomiji Hirano
1846–1892 (age 46)
Yanaka Cemetery
Tomiji Hirano (1846–1892) was a Japanese engineer from Tokyo who contributed to Japan's modernization during the Meiji...
Majima Fuyumichi
1827–1890 (age 63)
Yanaka Cemetery
Gottfried Wagener
1831–1892 (age 61)
Aoyama Cemetery
German chemist who contributed significantly to 19th-century chemical science.
Kim Ok-gyun
1851–1894 (age 43)
Aoyama Cemetery
Kim Okkyun (Korean: 김옥균; Hanja: 金玉均; February 23, 1851 – March 28, 1894) was a Korean scholar-bureaucrat o...
W. K. Burton
1856–1899 (age 43)
Aoyama Cemetery
William Kinnimond Burton (11 May 1856 – 5 August 1899) was a Scottish engineer, photographer and photography writer, b...
Shōjirō Gotō
1838–1897 (age 59)
Aoyama Cemetery
Count Gotō Shōjirō (後藤 象二郎; 13 April 1838 – 4 August 1897) was a Japanese samurai and politician during ...
Joseph Heco
1837–1897 (age 60)
Aoyama Cemetery
Joseph Heco (born Hikozō Hamada (浜田彦蔵, Hamada Hikozō) September 20, 1837 – December 12, 1897) was the first ...
Nishi Amane
1829–1897 (age 68)
Aoyama Cemetery
Nishi Amane (西周; March 7, 1829 – January 30, 1897) was a Japanese philosopher.
Edoardo Chiossone
1833–1898 (age 65)
Aoyama Cemetery
Edoardo Chiossone (January 21, 1833 – April 11, 1898) was an Italian engraver and painter, noted for his work as a for...
Guido Verbeck
1830–1898 (age 68)
Aoyama Cemetery
Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (born Verbeek; 23 January 1830 – 10 March 1898) was a Dutch political advisor, educator,...
Ōki Takatō
1832–1899 (age 67)
Aoyama Cemetery
Count Ōki Takatō (大木 喬任; March 23, 1832 – September 26, 1899), was a Japanese statesman during the early Mei...
Charles Elias Garst
1853–1898 (age 45)
Aoyama Cemetery
Henry Spencer Palmer
1838–1893 (age 55)
Aoyama Cemetery
Major General Henry Spencer Palmer (30 April 1838 – 10 February 1893) was a British Royal Engineer who was a member o...
Hugh Fraser
1837–1894 (age 57)
Aoyama Cemetery
Hugh Fraser (22 February 1837 – 4 June 1894) was an English diplomat who served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe...
Yamakawa Hiroshi
1845–1898 (age 53)
Aoyama Cemetery
Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi (山川 浩; 4 December 1845 – 6 March 1898) was a Japanese general, samurai, politician and ed...
Mitsukuri Rinshō
1846–1897 (age 51)
Tama Cemetery
Baron Mitsukuri Rinshō (箕作麟祥; September 19, 1846 – November 29, 1897) was a Japanese statesman and legal scho...
Eishō
1835–1897 (age 62)
Sennyū-ji Temple
Asako Kujō (九条夙子, Kujō Asako; 11 January 1835 – 11 January 1897), posthumously honoured as Empress Dowager E...
Kanehiro Ijūin
1838–1898 (age 60)
Aoyama Cemetery
Ueki Emori
1857–1892 (age 35)
Aoyama Cemetery
Ueki Emori (植木 枝盛; February 14, 1857 – January 23, 1892) was a Japanese revolutionary democrat active in the F...
Fuji Shigemoto
1826–1897 (age 71)
Aoyama Cemetery
Okamatsu Ōkoku
1820–1895 (age 75)
Aoyama Cemetery
Legal historian whose scholarship advanced understanding of jurisprudence and legal traditions.
Charlotte Pinckney Draper
1832–1899 (age 67)
Aoyama Cemetery
Adolph Lubouwski
1833–1897 (age 64)
Aoyama Cemetery
Adolph Lubouwski was a businessperson active in Japan during the Meiji period.
Ochiai Naozumi
1840–1891 (age 51)
Zōshigaya Cemetery
Sanjō Sanetomi
1837–1891 (age 54)
Gokoku-ji Temple
Prince Sanjō Sanetomi (三条 実美; 13 March 1837 – 18 February 1891) was a Japanese Imperial court noble and state...
Nakahama Manjirō
1827–1898 (age 71)
Zōshigaya Cemetery
Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎; January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung)...
Takahashi Sobe
1826–1890 (age 64)
Zōshigaya Cemetery
Takahashi Sobe was a businessperson who contributed to Japan's economic development during the nineteenth century.
Kanō Eitoku
1815–1891 (age 76)
Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple
Ishii Teiko
1848–1897 (age 49)
Gokoku-ji Temple
Ishii Teiko was a painter who contributed to Japanese art during the Meiji era.
Takaba Osamu
1831–1891 (age 60)
Sōfuku-ji Temple
Hayashi Dōkai
1813–1895 (age 82)
Kisshō-ji Temple
Hayashi Dōkai was a physician whose medical practice contributed to health advancement in nineteenth-century Japan.
Kawata Ōkō
1830–1896 (age 66)
Kisshō-ji Temple
Hasegawa Utano
1832–1891 (age 59)
Yūten-ji Temple
Hasegawa Utano was a woman who lived through Japan's transformative Meiji period.
Glover Tsuru
1851–1899 (age 48)
Sakamoto International Cemetery
Oshio Gorō
1830–1894 (age 64)
Heiwa Park
Oshio Gorō was a naturalist whose scientific work contributed to the study of the natural world in nineteenth-century J...
John Wilson
1851–1899 (age 48)
Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
Charles Wirgman
1832–1891 (age 59)
Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
Charles Wirgman (31 August 1832 - 8 February 1891) was an English artist, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist, the cre...
Richard Perkins Bridgens
1819–1891 (age 72)
Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
Gustav Kreitner
1847–1893 (age 46)
Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery
Gustav Ritter von Kreitner (2 August 1847 – 20 November 1893) was a Silesian-Austrian military geographer, traveler, a...
Sō Yoshiyori
1818–1890 (age 72)
Banshō-in Temple
Sō Yoshiyori (宗 義和; September 4, 1818 – August 13, 1890) was a Sō clan daimyō (feudal lord) of the island dom...
Suzuki Hyakunen
1825–1891 (age 66)
Isshin-in Temple
Suzuki Hyakunen was a poet whose literary works contributed to Japanese cultural life during the nineteenth century.
Abe Tametō
1845–1893 (age 48)
Minowa
Sanagi Kōji
1835–1891 (age 56)
Sanagi Islsnd
Sanagi Kōji was a military officer who served during Japan's modernization period.
Utagawa Yoshitaki
1841–1899 (age 58)
Nanshū-ji Temple
Utagawa Yoshitaki (歌川 芳滝; April 13, 1841 – June 28, 1899), who is also known as Ichiyōsai Yoshitaki (一養�...
Hori Tatsunosuke
1823–1894 (age 71)
Daion-ji Temple
Hori Tatsunosuke (Japanese: 堀 達之助; 1823 – 1892) was a Japanese interpreter and translator of Dutch and English...
Kōno Bairei
1844–1895 (age 51)
Myōren-ji Temple
Kōno Bairei (幸野 楳嶺; March 3, 1844 – February 20, 1895) was a Japanese painter, book illustrator, and art teac...
Sekizawa Meisei
1843–1897 (age 54)
Jōgan-ji Temple
Sekizawa Meisei was a whaler who contributed to Japan's maritime industries.