Kibi Revolution (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The Kibi Revolution (Japanese: キビ カクメイ (己未革命) Kibi Kakumei, "Revolution of the Year of Yin Earth Goat"), also known as the Japanese Revolution of 1919, was a series of civil conflicts in Japan. It first took place as a demonstration in Tokyo on November 13, 1919 against the ruling government of Iwasaki Hisaya that bloodily suppressed by the Imperial Guards and soon became widespread throughout Japan where included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. The revolution was named Kibi because it occurred in 1919, the year of the Jiwei stem-branch ("Kibi" in Japan) in the traditional of the Chinese calendar.

The revolution mainly arose due to popular dissatisfaction of country's expansionist policies from 1898 to 1905 which resulted Japan being hampered by a deep economic crisis and also partially as an extension of the 1865-67 Japanese Civil War where the revolution is viewed as a continuation of conflicts between the Nationalists and the Liberals over the control of Japanese state.