1893 in Japan

Events in the year 1893 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 26 (明治26年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Meiji
 * Prime Minister: Itō Hirobumi

Governors

 * Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo
 * Akita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama
 * Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
 * Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
 * Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa
 * Fukuoka Prefecture: Tameharu Yamada then Kojiro Iwasaki
 * Fukushima Prefecture: Yoshio Kusaka
 * Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki then Michio Sokabe
 * Gunma Prefecture: Motootoko Nakamura
 * Hiroshima Prefecture: Nabeshima Miki
 * Ibaraki Prefecture: Takasaki
 * Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
 * Kagawa Prefecture: Masao Tanimori then Baron Umashi Obata
 * Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi
 * Kumamoto Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
 * Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Akira Senda then Hiroshi Nakai
 * Mie Prefecture: Shangyi Narukawa
 * Miyagi Prefecture: Mamoru Funakoshi
 * Nagano Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu then Asada Tokunori
 * Niigata Prefecture: Senda Sada Akatsuki
 * Oita Prefecture: Baron Shirane Senitsu
 * Okinawa Prefecture: Kanji Maruoka
 * Osaka Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada
 * Saga Prefecture: Takaya Nagamine
 * Saitama Prefecture: Tsunao Hayashi
 * Shimame Prefecture: Goro Shinozaki then Oura Kanetake
 * Tochigi Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi
 * Tokyo: Tomita Tetsunosuke
 * Toyama Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori
 * Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

Events

 * Unknown date – Nagoya Life Insurance, as predecessor of T&D Holdings has founded.

Births

 * January 11 – Motoo Ōtaguro, music critic (d. 1979)
 * May 15 – Fusae Ichikawa, politician and women's suffrage leader (d. 1981)
 * October 20 – Noboru Ishizaki, admiral (d. 1959)

Deaths

 * January 22 – Kawatake Mokuami, playwright (b. 1816)
 * June 6 – Terashima Munenori, diplomat (b. 1832)
 * December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori, samurai (b. 1836)