1886 in Japan
Events in the year 1886 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 19 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- List of governors of [Aichi Prefecture|Aichi Prefecture]: Minoru Katsumata
- Akita Prefecture: Akagawa then Sada Aoyama
- Aomori Prefecture: Kyusei Fukushima then Nabeshima Miki
- Ehime Prefecture: Shinpei Seki
- Fukui Prefecture: Tsutomu Ishiguro
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo
- Fukushima Prefecture: Kinichi Akashi then Hiraochi Orita
- Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
- Gunma Prefecture: Katori Yoshihiko
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Senda Sadaaki
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Shima then Sadanori Yasuda
- Iwate Prefecture: Shoichiro Ishii
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Baron Tadatsu Hayashi
- Kochi Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Yoshiaki Tonabe
- Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu
- Mie Prefecture: Ishii Kuni
- Miyagi Prefecture: Matsudaira Masanao
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Teru Tananbe
- Nagano Prefecture: Baron Seiichiro Kinashi
- Niigata Prefecture: Shinozaki Goro
- Oita Prefecture: Ryokichi Nishimura
- Okinawa Prefecture: Sadakiyo Osako then Minoru Fukuhara
- Osaka Prefecture: Tateno Tsuyoshi
- Saga Prefecture: Kamata
- Saitama Prefecture: Kiyohide Yoshida
- Shimane Prefecture: Sada Kotedayasu
- Tochigi Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama
- Tokyo: Hiroshi Watanabe then Marquis Shigeru Hachisuke
- Toyama Prefecture: Kunishige Masafuni then Fujishima Masaki
- Yamagata Prefecture: Orita Hirauchi then Shibahara Sum
Events
- January 26 - The Hokkaidō Agency opens, with its main office in Sapporo and branch offices in Hakodate and Nemuro.
Births
- January 28 - Hidetsugu Yagi, electrical engineer
- February 10 - Raichō Hiratsuka, writer, journalist, political activist
- February 20 - Takuboku Ishikawa, poet
- February 23 - Yahiko Mishima, athlete
- May 20 - Chieko Takamura, artist
- June 9 - Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor
- June 10 - Sessue Hayakawa, actor
- June 18 - Tsuruko Haraguchi, psychologist and the first Japanese woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy
- July 17 - Chizuko Mifune, clairvoyant
- July 20 - Misao Fujimura, student and poet
- July 24 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, writer and novelist
- November 1
- *Sakutarō Hagiwara, writer
- *Sumako Matsui, actress and singer
- November 27 - Tsuguharu Foujita, painter