People of the Taishō period (48 people)

Figures who lived in the Taishō period, in order of birth. Choose a name to follow that life event by event.

Saionji Kinmochi The last genro and Prime Minister / 1849–1940 (about 91 years)
Yamamoto Gonbee Satsuma-born admiral who built the modern navy and twice served as prime minister / 1852–1933 (about 81 years)
Terauchi Masatake Chōshū-born soldier who served as army minister and first governor-general of Korea before becoming prime minister / 1852–1919 (about 67 years)
Takahashi Korekiyo Prime minister and finance minister / 1854–1936 (about 82 years)
Inukai Tsuyoshi Statesman, prime minister / 1855–1932 (about 77 years)
Hara Takashi Prime Minister / 1856–1921 (about 65 years)
Ozaki Yukio Politician, "god of constitutional government" / 1858–1954 (about 96 years)
Katō Takaaki Prime minister (three-party coalition) / 1860–1926 (about 66 years)
Katō Tomosaburō Chief of staff at Tsushima and prime minister who accepted naval disarmament at the Washington Conference / 1861–1923 (about 62 years)
Makino Tomitarō Botanist / 1862–1957 (about 95 years)
Nagaoka Hantarō Physicist / 1865–1950 (about 85 years)
Minakata Kumagusu Naturalist and folklorist / 1867–1941 (about 74 years)
Nishida Kitarō Philosopher / 1870–1945 (about 75 years)
Honda Kōtarō Physicist and metallurgist / 1870–1954 (about 84 years)
Shimamura Hōgetsu Critic, dramatist and leader of modern theater / 1871–1918 (about 47 years)
Sakai Toshihiko Founded the Heiminsha to oppose war and kept the socialist movement alive through its harshest years / 1871–1933 (about 62 years)
Izumi Kyōka Novelist, master of fantastic literature / 1873–1939 (about 66 years)
Minobe Tatsukichi Constitutional scholar of Taisho democracy who proposed the emperor-organ theory / 1873–1948 (about 75 years)
Suzuki Umetarō Agricultural chemist (vitamins) / 1874–1943 (about 69 years)
Yanagita Kunio Folklorist / 1875–1962 (about 87 years)
Uemura Shōen Nihonga painter / 1875–1949 (about 74 years)
Yoshino Sakuzō Political scientist / 1878–1933 (about 55 years)
Arishima Takeo Novelist / 1878–1923 (about 45 years)
Nagai Kafū Novelist of Edo sensibility / 1879–1959 (about 80 years)
Kawakami Hajime Economist who wrote "Tale of Poverty" / 1879–1946 (about 67 years)
Noguchi Ujō Poet of children's songs / 1882–1945 (about 63 years)
Suzuki Miekichi Novelist and children's author / 1882–1936 (about 54 years)
Saitō Mokichi Leading Araragi tanka poet and psychiatrist / 1882–1953 (about 71 years)
Shiga Naoya Novelist, "god of the novel" / 1883–1971 (about 88 years)
Takehisa Yumeji Painter and poet / 1884–1934 (about 50 years)
Kitahara Hakushū Poet / 1885–1942 (about 57 years)
Mushanokōji Saneatsu Novelist and playwright / 1885–1976 (about 91 years)
Osugi Sakae Taisho-era thinker and social activist / 1885–1923 (about 38 years)
Hiratsuka Raichō Women's rights activist / 1886–1971 (about 85 years)
Matsui Sumako Actress / 1886–1919 (about 33 years)
Yamada Kōsaku Composer and conductor / 1886–1965 (about 79 years)
Hagiwara Sakutarō Poet / 1886–1942 (about 56 years)
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Novelist of beauty and the senses / 1886–1965 (about 79 years)
Nakayama Shinpei Composer of Katyusha's Song and many children's and new folk songs, loved for his "Shinpei style" / 1887–1952 (about 65 years)
Kikuchi Kan Novelist, playwright, founder of Bungei Shunjū / 1888–1948 (about 60 years)
Kagawa Toyohiko Christian social reformer who lived among the poor / 1888–1960 (about 72 years)
Kishida Ryūsei Western-style painter / 1891–1929 (about 38 years)
Kanakuri Shisō Marathon runner, father of Japanese marathon / 1891–1983 (about 92 years)
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Writer / 1892–1927 (about 35 years)
Ichikawa Fusae Women's rights activist, politician / 1893–1981 (about 88 years)
Itō Noe Women's liberation activist who edited "Seitō" / 1895–1923 (about 28 years)
Miyazawa Kenji Poet and children's author / 1896–1933 (about 37 years)
Kaneko Misuzu Children's poet / 1903–1930 (about 27 years)

Other periods

Yayoi/Kofun Asuka Nara Heian Kamakura Muromachi Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama Edo Meiji Taishō

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