You could say that it's a restoration of power back to the emperor. The emperor existed even during the shogunate, but was a figurehead. It was the shogun who had the power. But now the emperor was able to take back the power from the shogun. The Meiji Restoration is perhaps even more important in that it took Japan from being a closed, feudal country, and in only a few decades, to a modern industrial imperial power. Here is some data that gives you a sense of this. 1875, 600,000 metric tons of coal produced.