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ILLUSTRATIONS
Empress Haruko in court dress, 1872. (Pho to by Kyuichi Uchida. Courtesy Getty Images, Hulton Archive.)
From left to right: Shige, Tei, Ryo, Ume, and Sutematsu, wearing the Western dresses purchased for them in Chicago. (Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
Tomomi Iwakura (center) with his senior ambassadors, including Takayoshi Kido (far left), Hirobumi Ito (second from right), and Toshimichi Okubo (far right). (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)
Arinori Mori, Japanese chargé d’affaires in Washington, 1871. (© 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)
Adeline Lanman. (Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
Leonard Bacon, pastor of New Haven’s First Church. (Courtesy Yale Divinity Library Special Collections.)
Sotokichi Uriu as a naval cadet at Annapolis. (Courtesy Mrs. Setsuko Uriu.)
From left to right: Sutematsu, Shige, and their friend Martha Sharpe at Vassar. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)
Vassar’s Class of 1882. Sutematsu sits fifth from the left, four rows back. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)
Sutematsu’s graduation portrait, 1882. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)
Ume in Tokyo, 1883. (Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
Iwao Oyama, minister of war. (Courtesy National Diet Library, Tokyo.)
The Emperor Meiji in court dress, 1872, and in Western-style military uniform, 1873. (Photos by Kyuichi Uchida. [Top] Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. [Bottom] Courtesy Getty Images, Hulton Archive.)
Hirobumi Ito, Japan’s first prime minister. (Courtesy Getty Images, Universal Images Group.)
Alice Bacon. (Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
The Rokumeikan. (Courtesy National Diet Library, Tokyo.)
Sutematsu, circa 1888. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)
Ume upon matriculation at Bryn Mawr, 1889.(Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
The Empress Haruko, circa 1888–90. (Courtesy Getty Images, Hulton Archive, Apic.)
The Women’s Home School of English in its new home, 1901. (Courtesy Tsuda College Archives.)
The Oyama family, pictured in Colliers, 1904. From left to right: Sutematsu, Takashi, Marquis Iwao Oyama, Kashiwa, Hisako. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)
INDEX
Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.
Page numbers in italics refer to photographs.
Abbott, Ellen “Aunt Nelly,” 113–14, 125–26, 176
Abbott, John S. C., 107, 112–13
Abbott family, 114, 136
abolitionists, 102
Addison, Joseph, 251
African Americans, 77, 91–92, 102, 109, 120–21, 150, 214
Ainu people, 43, 146
Aizu code, 23, 24, 34, 39
junior version of, 24–25
Aizu domain, 19, 23–24, 28, 32, 43, 49, 56, 89, 177, 178, 238, 267, 282n
Boshin War and, 33–38
education in, 24–25, 39–40
exile to Tonami of, 38–39, 40, 46, 47
hierarchy in, 36
malnutrition of refugees within, 39, 40, 47, 49
remoteness of Wakamatsu and, 23, 27, 31, 50
retainers of, 23–24
samurai of, 25, 26–27, 38, 39, 99, 170
Tonami school of, 39–40
Wakamatsu school of, 24–25, 35, 253
weaponry in, 34
see also Tonami; Wakamatsu
Aizu prison camp, 38, 40, 48
alternate attendance, 22
Alvord, William, 72
Amaterasu, 21
America, 58–59, 65, 69, 264
American Oriental Society, 111
American Women’s Scholarship for Japanese Women, 230, 234, 235, 247
Amherst College, 94, 171
Andover Theological Seminary, 94
Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy at, 114–15, 135, 168, 189, 271
Anthony, Susan B., 127
Antisell, Thomas, 104
antislavery movement, 102
Arabic, 151–53, 156–57, 161
Archer, Mrs., 138
Archer Institute, 138
Arlington Hotel, 90
Asahi Shimbun, 143, 273
Atami, 197
Atlantic Monthly, 74, 122
Aurora, Ill., 86
Azabu, 162, 188, 195, 203, 204
Backus, Truman, 130
Bacon, Alfred, 265
Bacon, Alice Mabel, 12, 102, 108, 110, 111, 129, 140, 144–45, 146–48, 176, 247
death of, 274, 275
Hampton Institute and, 109, 211, 214, 228, 231, 240, 255, 274
Imperial Palace tour and, 217–18
in Japan, 211–24, 225, 226–27, 257–60, 262, 265, 274
Japanese constitution and, 219–20
Japanese customs/etiquette and, 222, 223
on Japanese empress, 223
Japanese Girls and Women of, 228–29, 230, 231–32
Japanese house of, 212–13
Mitsu adopted by, 224, 255, 257, 274
open mind of, 214
at Peeresses’ School, 212, 213–14, 220–22, 223, 226–27, 254
photograph of, 159, 265
plans to go to Japan, 146, 147
return to U.S., 223–24, 265, 266, 267–68
Russo-Japanese War and, 270, 274
salary of, 212
Shige and, 216, 271
Sutematsu and, 109, 114, 144, 151–52, 156, 163–64, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174–75, 176, 179, 180–81, 182, 193, 198, 199, 211, 212, 215, 216, 237–38, 242, 245, 254–55, 271, 273, 274–75
as teacher, 109, 211, 212, 213–14, 220–21, 226–27, 254, 259, 260, 262
Tsuda College and, 257, 258, 259, 260, 262
Ume and, 211–13, 214, 216, 220, 221, 228–29, 235, 238, 239, 241, 242, 248–49, 250, 254, 267–68
at Women’s Higher Normal School, 254, 257
Bacon, Catherine, 103, 106, 108, 109, 111–12, 116, 125, 129, 140, 141, 144, 145
Bacon, Delia, 106
Bacon, Francis, 145
Bacon, Georgeanna, 145
Bacon, Leonard, 101–2, 103, 105, 108, 110, 112, 220, 239, 274
death of, 140–41
on women’s duties, 106, 113
Bacon, Nelly, 108, 109, 140
Bacon, Rebecca, 101, 102, 103, 109, 125–26, 145, 176, 211
Bacon, Sir Francis, 106
Bacon family, 107, 108, 110–11, 117, 126, 129, 146, 170
Barnum, P. T., 108
Beale, Dorothea, 251, 252, 260
Belgic, 224
Bishopthorpe Palace, 252
Block Island, R.I., 134
Bonté, Fannie, 149
Bonté, John H. C., 149, 151
Bonté family, 150
Booth, Newton, 80
Boshin War, 33–38, 60, 155, 177
Bowdoin College, 112
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