Question: How many years into the Meiji Era did the Battle of Tabaruzaka take place?
Context: The 14th European Maccabi Games (EMG2015) take place in Berlin from July 27 to August 5, 2015.  The European Maccabiah Games take place in a four-year cycle, two years after the Maccabiah in Israel.  Germany has been selected for the first time in its history as the venue.  2,300 athletes from 38 countries are participating, who will compete in 19 sports.  The main venue for the Games was deliberately chosen the Olympic Park in Berlin.  In this place, the Summer Olympics were held in 1936 during the era of Nazi Germany.  At that time, Jews were discouraged from participating. The Battle of Tabaruzaka was a major battle of the Satsuma Rebellion.  It took place in March 1877, on the island of Kyushu, Japan, concurrently to the Siege of Kumamoto Castle. The Satsuma Rebellion (西南戦争 , Seinan Sensō , "Southwestern War") was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government, nine years into the Meiji Era.  Its name comes from Satsuma Domain, which had been influential in the Restoration and became home to unemployed samurai after military reforms rendered their status obsolete.  The rebellion lasted from January 29, 1877, until September of that year, when it was decisively crushed and its leader, Saigō Takamori, committed seppuku after being mortally wounded. Ōyama Sutematsu (大山 捨松 , March 16, 1860 – February 18, 1919) (born Yamakawa Sakiko, later Yamakawa Sutematsu) was a Japanese woman of the Meiji era, who was a prominent social figure.  She was born in Aizu to a family of senior retainers serving Matsudaira Katamori.  In December 1871 she was sent to the United States for study, as part of the Iwakura Mission.  She was placed in the household of Leonard Bacon where she befriended his daughter Alice.  The two lived like sisters for ten years learning each other's cultures.  Sutematsu eventually graduated from Vassar College.  Sutematsu's brothers, Yamakawa Kenjirō and Yamakawa Hiroshi, were famous in their own right, during the Meiji era. The Tsugaru clan (津軽氏 , Tsugaru-shi ) was a Japanese samurai clan originating in northern Japan, specifically Mutsu Province (the northeast coast of Honshū).  A branch of the local Nanbu clan, the Tsugaru rose to power during the Azuchi–Momoyama period.  It was on the winning side of the Battle of Sekigahara, and entered the Edo period as a family of lords (daimyo) ruling the Hirosaki Domain.  A second branch of the family was later established, which ruled the Kuroishi Domain.  The Tsugaru survived as a daimyo family until the Meiji Restoration, when Tsugaru Tsuguakira of Hirosaki and Tsugaru Tsugumichi of Kuroishi were relieved of office.  Their extended family then became part of the new nobility in the Meiji era. Yasuji Kitazawa (北澤 保次 , 20 July 1876 – 25 August 1955) , better known by the pen name Rakuten Kitazawa (北澤 楽天 , Kitazawa Rakuten ) , was a Japanese manga artist and nihonga artist.  He drew many editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji era through the early Showa era.  He is considered by many historians to be the founding father of modern manga because his work was an inspiration to many younger manga artists and animators. Charles Dickinson West (January 1847 – 10 January 1908) was an Irish mechanical engineer and naval architect, who worked for many years at the Imperial College of Engineering, in Meiji era Japan. Kawamura was born in Kagoshima in the Satsuma han feudal domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture.  He first fought as a samurai in the Anglo-Satsuma War.  He was part of the Satsuma forces in the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate.  After the Meiji Restoration he was appointed commander of the Imperial Guards.  He also served as field commander in the suppression of various insurrections during the early years of the Meiji era, including the Hagi Rebellion and the Satsuma Rebellion. The Japanese kitchen (Japanese: 台所 , "Daidokoro ", 'kitchen' ) is the place where food is prepared in a Japanese house.  Until the Meiji era, a kitchen was also called "kamado" (かまど ; lit.  stove) and there are many sayings in the Japanese language that involve kamado as it was considered the symbol of a house.  The term could even be used to mean "family" or "household" (much as "hearth" does in English).  Separating a family was called "kamado wo wakeru", or "divide the stove".  "Kamado wo yaburu" (lit.  "break the stove") means that the family was broken. The Justas de Atletismo y Festival Deportivo de Puerto Rico (English: "Puerto Rico Athletic Games and Sports Festival" ) —better known as Las Justas Intercolegiales (English: "The Intercollegiate Games" ) or simply as Las Justas (English: "The Games" )— is an intercollegiate sports competition held annually in Puerto Rico where Puerto Rican colleges and universities compete against each other in different sports.  The event is also supplemented by artistic presentations that take place after the events come to an end at night each day.  The event is sponsored by the Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria de Puerto Rico.  For many years the event was held in San Juan, but in 1993 it was moved to the city of Ponce, where - except for 2010 and 2016 – it has been held since.  The week-long event takes place during the month of April.  The 2014 edition is scheduled to take place in Ponce from 6 April to 12 April 2014 with competitions in softball, basketball, beach volleyball, judo, table tennis, swimming, cheerleading, women's football, and athletics.
Answer: nine