by Donald Keene
Shō Ten (crown prince of Ryūkyū kingdom)
Shōgitai (supporters of Tokugawa)
shogun (tycoon taikun): and emperor; as head of government. See also Minamoto Yoshinobu; shogunate; Tokugawa Hidetada; Tokugawa Iemitsu; Tokugawa Iemochi; Tokugawa Iesada; Tokugawa Ieyasu
shogunate: and nobility; response of, to Fillmore’s letter; and court; and opening of Japan; and Tokugawa Iemochi’s proposed marriage; and terrorists; response of, to Ikeda’s treaty; war of against Chōshū domain; as central government; and Meiji’s marriage; France’s support of; and foreign trade; struggle for continued existence of; army of; nō patronage by; income of. See also imperial rule
shōin (executive branch of government)
Shōken, Empress. See Ichijō Haruko
Shōki (Chung Kuei)
Shōren’in-no-miya Son’yu. See Nakagawa, Prince
Shōsō-in
Shōtoku Prince
Shugaku-in (emperors’ hill resort)
silk
Sino-French War
Sino-Japanese War; precursors to; Yamagata on; first battle of; declaration of; first land engagement of; heroes of; woodblock prints of; and Meiji; move of imperial headquarters to Hiroshima during; attack on Pyongyang during; sea victories in; offer of mediation of from United States; massacre at Port Arthur during; negotiations for ending of; occupation of Hai-ch’eng during; attack on Chinese North Sea Fleet during; cease-fire during; peace treaty of; and Meiji’s rescript on peace with China; effects of
Six Classics
Six Great Imperial Tours (roku dai junkō)
Smiles, Samuel
Smith, Peshine
Sō Shigemasa
Social Revolutionary Party
socialism
Soejima Taneomi (foreign minister, later interior minister): on Motoda; and Russia; and Maria Luz case; mission of to China; as councillor; attempts at banishment of; Meiji’s decision on; lectures of; on treaty revision; as interior minister
Soga Sukenori (Yoshihito’s tutor)
Sōka, Meiji’s stop at
Sōmuda
Sone Aramaki (resident general, Korea)
Sone Arasuke
Song Pyong-jun (interpreter)
Song-hwan, battle of
songs
sonnō jōi (respect the emperor and drive out the barbarians)
sonnō jōi faction
Sono Motosachi
Sono Sachiko (Meiji’s favorite concubine); number of children of; Meiji’s attention to; birth of Michihito to; birth of Meiji’s sixth daughter to; birth of Nobuko to; travel to Hiroshima; birth of Toshiko to; at poetry gathering
Sonoda Yasukata (police official)
Son’yu, Prince. See Nakagawa Prince
Sōryō (Choryang) Wakan (trading station)
sōshi (unruly Japanese in Seoul)
sovereigns
Special Grand Army Maneuvers
Spencer, Herbert
spy network
St. Petersburg, Russia
state affairs. See also Meiji: political/governmental actions state employees (yatoi)
state funerals
statues
Stein, Lorenz von
Stevens, Durham W.
Stoessel, Anatolii Mikhailovich
Stonewall Jackson (American ironclad)
strikes
Suehiro Tetchō (author)
Suematsu Kenchō (representative to Britain)
Sugimura Fukashi
Sugiyama Shitemaru
Sukehito, Prince (Emperor Kyōkō)
Sumanomiya (Kōmei’s daughter)
Sumiko, Princess (Meiji’s aunt)
Sun Goddess
Sun Yat-sen
Sunjong (I Chok crown prince later, king of Korea): succession of; crowning of; letter of friendship to Meiji from; and hunting tour of Korean hinterland; gifts of, for imperial family; post-annexation treatment of; rescript of, on abdication; poisoning of; edict of on Yi Eun’s study in Japan
supreme court
Susquehanna (Perry’s flagship)
sutra-reading minister. See Miura Gorō
Suzuki Shin’ichi (photographer)
swords
Tabaruzaka
Tadayasu Aiko (Meiji’s maternal grandmother)
Taehan. See Korea
Taft, William Howard
T’ai P’ing Rebellion
taikun (tycoon). See shogun
Taishō, Emperor. See Yoshihito, Prince
Taiwan: natives of; invasion of; Meiji’s actions on; China’s cession of; declaration of republic of; cost of possession of; earthquake on
Takachiho (cruiser)
Takahira Kogorō (minister to United States)
Takahito, Prince
Takakura Kazujo (senior court lady)
Takano, Meiji’s visit to
Takasaki Masakaze (poet); on Meiji’s poetry; reply of to Meiji’s poem; cautions Meiji; on Meiji’s assumption of personal rule; lectures on Kokinshū by; and subjects for New Year’s poetry gatherings
Takashima Shigenori (lieutenant colonel)
Takashima Tomonosuke (chamberlain, later general): on Meiji’s drinking; on Meiji’s interest in Franco-Prussian War; on attack on Korean legation; on Japan’s and China’s response to the West; as army minister
Takashina Tsunenori (physician)
Takasugi Shinsaku (extremist)
Takatsuji Osanaga
Takatsukasa Masamichi (chancellor); at Kōmei’s gembuku; and United States; Manabe’s punishment of
Takatsukasa Sukehiro (chancellor)
Takechi Zuisan (patriot)
Takehito, Prince; as host to Czarevitch Nicholas; at funeral for dowager empress; on abolition of office of tutor; travel to Korea
Takezoe Shin’ichirō (minister resident to Korea)
Takigawa Tomotaka (shogunate army commander)
Takiko, Princess (Meiji’s tenth daughter)
Takizawa Shigeru (reporter)
Taku, China
Tamamatsu Misao
Tanaka Akiro
Tanaka Fujimaro (education minister)
Tanaka Kawachinosuke (Nakayama family retainer)
Tanaka Mitsuaki (imperial household minister)
Tanaka Shōzō (member of House of Representatives)
Taneda Masaaki (major general)
T’ang Ching-sung
Tani Tateki (Kenjō, major general)
tanka (poetic verse form)
FIRST LINES: ama terasu (How marvelous that; Nakayama Tadayasu); asakaranu (In appreciation; Takasaki); hajime yori (There is no flower; Reizei); hana no haru (I hope you will observe; Ichijō Haruko); kanashiku no (Grief-stricken and yet; Nakayama Tadayasu); karishi ho no (When I see how few; daimyo of Owari); kono hisago (I will try drinking; Yamaguchi Masasada); kono kimi no (How must all the gods; Nakayama Tsunako); koto shi araba (If a crisis should come; Ichijō Haruko); kuni no kaze (Even if stormy winds; Kōmei); masurao no (A warrior even; Etō); nami kaze no (The lake of Arai; Iwakura Tomomi); naniwazu ni (At Naniwa Bay; ancient Naniwazu poem); no ni yama ni (In fields and mountains; Nogi Maresuke); no-boru beki (The child of the sun; Nakayama Tadayasu); oki tsu nami (The waves offshore are; Ichijō Haruko); oroka naru (What a shameful thing; Shinagawa); Satsuma-gata (On Satsuma shores; Ichijō Haruko); Shafuhen (The Ricksha Man;Ōnuma); ume yanagi (As plums and willows; Kōei); watatsumi no (As I count over; ancient poem); yo wo omou (There can be no doubt; Kōmei). See also poems
tanka Meiji’s: as documents of life of; first; Kōtoku’s use of
FIRST LINES: akebono ni (In the light of dawn); aki no yo no (Not tired by the length); ame no shita (How delightful is); atarashiki (How happy I was); azuma ni to (As the ship hurries); chiyo yorozu (An indication); fuji no ne ni (The sky at the start); fuku kaze ni (Having been battered); furusato no (When I came and saw); hageshiku mo (I can hear the roar); himugashi no (Even the sky over); kazu shirazu (The sounds of gunfire); kinō kyō (In the fierceness of); kora wa mina (All his sons have); minahito no (How good it woul
d be); miyako ni mo (In the capital); mononofu no (At Tabaruzaka); mononofu no (Morning Sun Mountain); mukashi yori (In battles like these); nami kaze no (Not dismayed even); natsu samuki (It’s now long ago); omou koto (This year, too, when); samidare no (A day that is spent); suminareshi (How delightful to think); susumiyuku (It will do no good); tachikaeru (Blossoms of the plum); takeuma ni (I remember now); tenarai wo (How I regret now); teru tsuki no (The light of the moon); tokoshie ni (I pray to You that); tsuki no wa no (When I visited); wa ga sono ni (Here in my garden); yo no takaku (How loudly they sound); yo wo osame (If one governs the land); yomo no umi (In this world of ours); yorozuyo ni (What never changes)
SUBJECTS: cherry blossoms; crane in pines; education; effects of war; four seas; governing; hardships endured by Japanese troops; journey in Koshi; Kōmei’s death; lives lost in military victories; moon; Mount Fuji; mountains at New Year; New Year; newspapers; pines on the rocks; pleasure on visiting Gosho; plum blossoms; Port Arthur; praying for the world; prosperity; spring breezes over the sea; storms; summer rain; Tabaruzaka; teachings from the past; time of problems; visit to Kōmei’s tomb; war; Western civilization; wild geese; writing at night
Tankai (priest)
Taoism
tariffs
Taruhito, Prince (Arisugawa Taruhito, minister of the left, later chief of the general staff); engagement of, to Kazunomiya; amnesty for; as supreme commander of imperial forces; Rinnōjinomiya’s meetings with; and Shōgitai; return of imperial emblems by; as envoy to Kagoshima; as general of expedition to Kumanoto; and draft constitution; response of to Ōkuma’s parliamentary timetable; loss of self-confidence; at lunch with czarevitch; proposal of for moving imperial headquarters; death of
Tayama Katai (author)
tea
Tei Nagayasu (interpreter)
tenchū (divine punishment)
Tenchū-gumi (Divine Punishment Group)
Teng Yin-chao
Tenryū-ji Village Meiji’s visit to
Terada-ya incident
Terajima Munenori (Matsuki Kōan)
Terasaki Yasukichi (medicine peddler)
Terashima Munenori (councillor later foreign minister, later education minister): at meeting on Sakhalin border problem; at meeting on campaign against native Taiwanese; message of, to Chinese government; as education minister; proposal of, for study of European constitutions; and Hoshi; on sale of Meiji’s photographs
Terauchi Masatake (army minister)
terrorism
Three Mountains of Yamato
Tientsin, China
Times (of London)
Ting Ju-ch’ang (admiral)
Ting-yüan (Chinese ironclad)
Toba, imperial victory at
Tōbu Emperor
Tōda Chōan (physician)
Toda Tadayuki
Tōdō Takakiyo (heir of Tsu domain)
Tōgō Heihachirō (captain, later admiral)
“Tokoton’yare” (song; Shinagawa)
Tokudaiji Sanetsune (major counselor); appointment of; and Motoda; as member of Ministry of the Imperial Household; on Meiji’s West-ernized dress; abolition of office of; lack of world knowledge; on Meiji’s work habits; on concern over lack of male heirs; as Meiji’s emissary to Kuroda; and Ozaki’s dismissal; request of, to resign post; and Watanabe’s resignation; in Meiji’s funeral procession
Tokugawa Akitake (daimyo of Mito)
Tokugawa Hidetada (shogun)
Tokugawa Iemitsu (shogun)
Tokugawa Iemochi (shogun): gifts of, to Kōmei; engagement and marriage of to Kazunomiya; visit of to Kōmei; refusal of, to be Kōmei’s surrogate; in expeditionary force against Chōshū domain; report of, on Mōri Takachika; resignation of; death of
Tokugawa Iesada (shogun)
Tokugawa Iesato (Kamenosuke)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (shogun)
Tokugawa Kamenosuke (Iesato)
Tokugawa Nariaki (daimyo of Mito)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu (commander of palace defense, later shogun): on opening Japan; proposals of, for changes in court practices; on Kōmei’s planned trip; refusal of, to be Kōmei’s surrogate; steps of, to avoid hostilities with foreigners; on approval of foreign treaties; as commander of shogunate forces; as seii taishōgun; relations with foreign diplomats; and arrests of Christians; imperial edict against; cession of power to court by; response of to proclamation of Restoration; and Parkes; seclusion of at temple; Rinnōjinomiya’s intercession for; terms for submission of
Tokugawa period emperors’ lives during
Tokugawa Yoshikatsu (daimyo of Owari)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu. See Minamoto Yoshinobu
Tokugawa Yoshiyori (lord of Edo Castle)
Tokutomi Roka (novelist)
Tokutomi Sohō (journalist)
Tōkyō (formerly Edo): Americans’ sounding of bay of; earthquake in; opening of; daimyos in, support for shogunate in; destruction of Satsuma residence in; as new name for Edo; Meiji’s visits to; trade center in; as functional capital; Hoshi’s role in municipal government of
Tōkyō (formerly Edo) Castle
Tōkyō University
Tōkyō-Yokohama mainichi shimbun (newspaper)
Tominokōji Hironao (nobleman)
Tominokōji Takanao (chamberlain)
Tonghak (religious group, Korea)
Tonghak rebellion
Torio Koyata (general)
Tosa Freedom Party
Toshiko, Princess (Meiji’s ninth daughter)
Toyama Masakazu
Toyama Mitsusuke (noble)
Tōyama Mitsuru
Toyooka Harusuke (painter)
trade. See foreign trade
trade treaties. See treaties
traditions: importance of; escaping in feminine disguise as; of warfare; at court; rejection of; and care of emperor’s children; and samurai; Meiji’s concern for preservation of; erosion of. See also ceremonies and rituals
Training Unit (Hullyon Togam, Korea)
Trans-Siberian Railway
treaties: with Russia; with United States; with Holland; with Britain; shogunate’s continued signing of; protests against; with France; on Sakhalin; with Austro-Hungarian Empire; with China; with Korea; on Ryūkyū’s sovereignty; on Korean annexation; of commerce. See also treaty revision
Treaty of Chemulp’o
Treaty of Kanagawa
Treaty of Shimoda
Treaty of Tientsin
treaty revision: question of; actions on; Meiji on; objections to concessions in; Ōkuma’s proposals for; and new constitution; opposition to; Aoki’s proposal for; House of Representatives’ action on
Treaty Revision Conference
Tsai Tse Prince
Tso Pao-Kuei
tsubogiri no goken (sword of succession)
Tsuchimikado Hareo (yin-yang diviner)
Tsuda Sanzō (would-be assassin of Czarevitch Nicholas)
Tsukiji (Tōkyō), foreign concession in
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (artist)
Tsunehisa, Prince
Tsushima Islands
Tsushima Strait
Tsutsui Masanori (senior shogunate official)
Tuan Chün, Prince (father of crown prince of China)
tycoon. See shogun
Tz’u-hsi (empress dowager, China)
Tzūzoku sangokushi (account of warfare)
Ubukata Toshirō (newspaper reporter)
Uchida Kuichi (photographer)
Uchida Ryōhei
Uchida Sadatsuchi (consul to Korea)
Uchimura Kanzō
Uchiyama Gudō (Buddhist priest)
Ueki Emori (political activist)
Ueno Park
Ugolini, Giuseppe (artist)
Ui Prince
u-in (judicial branch of government)
ukei. See yin-yang divination
Ukhotomskii, E. E. (Russian prince)
ukiyoe artists
ulsa ojok (five bandits of)
Umayabara Muhon (commander)
Umberto (k
ing of Italy)
Umewaka Minoru (performer)
United States: treaties with; shogunate’s mission to; on actions against Taiwan; educational methods in, Meiji on; offer of, to mediate with Korea; offer of, to mediate Sino-Japanese War; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; Hoshi as minister to; as ally of Japan; pro-Japanese sentiments in; intervention in European affairs by; as hypothetical enemy; Kōtoku in; on Anglo-Japanese Alliance; on Japanese immigration; prospects for war with. See also Fillmore, Millard; Grant, Ulysses S.; Harris, Townsend; Hayes, Rutherford B.; Perry, Matthew Calbraith; Pierce, Franklin
universities
Uraga
Uramatsu Tarumitsu (Meiji’s playmate)
Urawa (Saitama Prefecture)
Uryū Sotokichi (rear admiral)
Ussuri Railroad
vaccination
Variag (Russian warship)
Verbeck, Guido F.
Vesuvius, Mount
Victoria (queen of England)
Villiers Frederic (North American Review correspondent)
violence: in September; against foreigners; during elections of; Kōtoku’s belief in. See also revolts
virtues; Confucian; sovereignly
Vladimirovitch, Kiril
Wada Enjirō
Wade, Thomas (British minister to China)
Waeber, Carl (Russian minister to Korea)
Wakan. See Sōryō (Choryang) Wakan
Wakisaka Yasuori (Shogunate representative)
Waldersee, Alfred
Wang Feng-tsao (Chinese minister to Japan)
war. See also Korea; Russo-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War
warmongering
warships
Watanabe Kunitake
Watson R. G. (acting British minister to Japan)
Way of the Warrior (budō)
Weihaiwei
West: adoption of dress of; technological achievements of; culture of
Westernization
White Lotus (Chinese Buddhist sect)
White Peril
White Peril in the Far East, The (Gulick)
“Why I Became a Socialist” (Kōtoku)
Wilhelm (Hong Sok-ku priest)
Wilhelm I (king of Prussia)
Wilhelm II (kaiser of Germany): on troops’ actions in China; hatred of “Yellow Peril,” influence of, on Nicholas II; on destruction of Russian fleet; and Russo-Japanese War peace negotiations; despotism of
Willem II (king of Holland)
Winter Palace
Witte, Sergei (finance minister Russia): on Czarevitch Nicholas’s visit to Japan; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; on Korea; and Trans-Siberian Railway; travel to Far East; and viceroyalty of Far East; on Russian occupation of Manchuria; on Alekseev; and negotiations with Japan; haughtiness of