|Reign||3 February 1867 – 30 July 1912 |Enthronement||12
September 1868| |House||Imperial House of Japan| 3 November
1852| |Died||30 July 1912 |Burial||13 September 1912 Fushimi
Momoyama no Misasagi (伏見桃山陵), Kyoto Emperor Meiji (明治天皇 Meiji-
tennō , 3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912), or Meiji the Great
(明治大帝 Meiji-taitei ), was the 122nd emperor of Japan according
to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February
1867 until his death. He presided over a time of rapid change in
Japan, as the nation rose from feudal state to world power. His
personal name was Mutsuhito (睦仁), and although outside of Japan
he is sometimes called by this name, in Japan deceased emperors
are referred to only by their posthumous names. At the time of
his birth in 1852, Japan was an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal
country dominated by the Tokugawa Shogunate and the daimyo, who
ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains. By
the time of his death in 1912, Japan had undergone a political,
social, and indust