Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back
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Ume’s reunions with, 250, 272
Ume’s stay with, 91, 94, 101, 104–5, 116–19, 123, 124, 126, 134–35, 153, 166, 226
vacations of, 126, 134–35
Lanman, Charles, 149
death of, 241
home of, 90–91, 117, 138
Iwakura girls looked after by, 90, 94, 98, 99, 123, 126, 134–35, 147
as lavish, 116
Mori and, 89–90, 97
Ume and, 91, 94, 101, 104–5, 116–21, 123–25, 126, 153, 166, 192, 193, 197, 210, 226, 252
vacations of, 126, 134–35
Litchfield Hills, Conn., 111, 145
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett), 261
Little Red Riding Hood, 262
London, 97, 250–51
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 112, 114, 121
Long Island, N.Y., 125
Loring, Annie, 95, 96
Machinery Hall, 122
Maclagan, William Dalrymple, 252
Manchuria, 270
Manifest Destiny, 73
Masonic Temple, 91
Massachusetts, 100
Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 230
Masuda, Eisaku, 173
Masuda, Shige, see Uriu, Shige Nagai
Masuda, Takanosuke, 60–61
Masuda, Takashi, 60–61, 139, 168, 172–73, 189, 202, 276
Masuda family, 173–74
Matsudaira, Katamori (Aizu daimyo), 34, 37, 38
Matsudaira clan, 23, 49
Matsushima, 270
Medill, Joseph, 87
Meiji Emperor, see Mutsuhito
Meiji restoration, 33–34
Meirokusha, 188
Mendelssohn, Felix, 125, 132
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 173–75
Methodist Mission, 190
Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan), 208–9
millennium, 257
Miller, Martha “Mattie,” 117, 166
Ministry of Agriculture, Japanese, 241
Ministry of Education, Japanese, 49, 169, 172, 263, 269
Mishima, Yataro, 241–42, 243
Mishima (village), 61
Miss Abbott’s School, 113–14, 124, 176
Mitchell, Maria, 130–31
Mitsui Trading Company, 139, 276
Monfort, Maria, 109
Mori, Arinori, 44, 88–89, 91, 95, 106, 120, 210
assassination of, 220
as guardian of Iwakura girls, 98, 99–101, 105
Imperial Diet and, 219
Lanman and, 89–90, 97
Mormons, Mormonism, 84–85
Morris, Mary Harris, 226–27, 230, 256, 257
Morris, Wistar, 226
Morse, Samuel, 79
Mother at Home, The, or The Principles of Maternal Duty (Abbott), 113
Motoda, Nagazane, 186
Motozonocho, Kojimachi, 263
Mount Holyoke College, 226
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 132
music, western, 73–74, 169
Music Investigation Committee, 169
Mussolini, Benito, 282n
Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor of Japan, 17, 21, 33, 40, 51–52, 55, 60, 70, 119, 209, 216–17
birthday celebrations for, 191–92, 207, 216
Charter Oath of, 44–45
death of, 271–72
domains abolished by, 41
Imperial Diet of, 218–20
Imperial Rescript on Education of, 229–30
Japan declared unenlightened by, 55
Oyamas visited by, 233
as symbol of Japan’s rise, 272
Western-style military uniforms of, 185, 217
Nagai, Gen’ei, 61
Nagai, Shige, see Uriu, Shige Nagai
Nagano, Fumiakira, 284n-85n
Nagano, Keijiro “Tommy,” 63–64, 91, 285n
Nagasaki, trading post at, 24, 27, 52
Nagatacho, 193
National Guard, U.S., 79
Native Americans, 149
Naval Academy, U.S., 114–15, 135, 168, 189, 271
Negishi, 171
Netherlands, 28
Japanese trade with, 24, 27, 30, 52
New Hampshire, 274
New Haven, Conn., 12, 100–103, 105, 111, 112, 115, 116, 134, 140, 144, 146–47, 148, 162, 163, 200, 267, 271, 274
New Jersey, 80, 87
newspapers, 53–54
New York, N.Y., 45–46, 137
New York State, 254
New York Times, 95, 138, 229, 238, 239
New York Tribune, 138
Nightingale, Florence, 251, 252
Niijima, Joseph, 94–95
Nisshinkan, 24–25, 35
Norfolk, Conn., 231
Normanton incident, 209
Northern Alliance, 60
Northrop, Birdsey Grant, 100, 101, 115–16
Norwich, Conn., 99
obedience, 25, 37, 43, 48, 128, 171, 186, 240
Oceanic, 136
Ogden, Utah Territory, 83
Ogino, Ginko, 248
Okubo, Toshimichi, 47, 53, 64, 76, 93, 96
Omaha, Nebr., 86
Onden, 233, 242, 262
Onna daigaku (“Greater Learning for Women” ), 25
opium, 150
Opium Wars, 27, 75
“Orientation of the Frog’s Egg, The,” 228
Orleans Hotel, 82
Oswego Normal School, 254
Our Society, 110, 200
Oxford University, 251
Oyama, Hisako “Chachan,” 202–3, 269, 271
Oyama, Iwao, 177, 200, 216, 243
ball hosted by, 195–96
death of, 274
foreign travels of, 198, 203, 264
Imperial Diet and, 219
proposal and marriage of, to Sutematsu, 178–82, 184n, 187, 196, 199, 225, 232
rank of, 206
Russo-Japanese War and, 270
Sino-Japanese War and, 236, 237, 239, 245
Takeo’s death and, 271
Oyama, Kashiwa, 222
Oyama, Nobuko, 241–43, 244
Oyama, Sutematsu Yamakawa, 12, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25–26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34–35, 38, 43, 57, 59, 60, 64, 67, 71, 89, 99, 111, 219, 224, 266–67, 277
admirers of, 172, 174–75, 177–79
Alice 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, 273, 274–75
American education of, 109–10, 112, 124–25, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135–36, 138, 139–40, 141–43, 225
appearance of, 121, 166
Bacon family and, 107, 108–9, 110, 125–26, 140
ball hosted by, 195–96
at Centennial Exhibition, 123, 179
character of, 132–33, 139, 275
charity work of, 110, 200–202, 237–38, 270
children of, 202–3, 208, 215, 216, 222, 241–43, 253, 270–71
Christianity and, 103–4
in Connecticut, 101, 103–4, 105–12, 115, 145–47, 175–76, 200
court visits of, 194, 198
death of, 275
education outside classroom of, 110
essays on Japan written by, 134, 140, 154–56
French lessons of, 181
Gaiyukai club and, 269
in Grove Hall Seminary, 109–10
in Hillhouse High School, 112, 124–25
Hototogisu alter ego of, 243
as indebted to Japan, 176, 199, 207
Iwakura Mission recruitment of, 47–50, 53
at Iwakura Mission reunion, 264
Japanese Girls and Women and, 229, 230, 231–32
Japanese identity of, 110, 154
Japanese practiced by, 110, 116, 131–32, 163
Japan understood by, 153–54
in journey back to western U.S., 147–49
Marian Whitney and, 111, 114
marriage and, 171, 172, 174–75, 179–81, 191
at Masudas’ par
ty, 173–74, 176–77
as natural leader, 133
negative newspaper stories about, 215
noble rank of, 206
nursing charity sale organized by, 200–202
nursing school attended by, 145–46, 200, 242
in ocean voyage home, 151–53, 156–57
Oyama’s proposal and marriage to, 178–82, 184n, 187, 196, 199, 225, 232
Peeresses’ School and, 199–200
photographs of, 13, 52–53, 67, 78, 121, 143, 159, 265
poor health of, 211, 215, 216
pregnancies of, 202–3, 215
reeducation in being Japanese of, 162, 163–64
in return to Japan, 144, 146, 156, 157, 161–63, 168, 169–70
Russo-Japanese War and, 270
sent to prison camp, 38, 48
Shige and, 107, 108, 109, 112, 131–32, 133, 138, 139, 141, 161, 164, 179, 183, 253, 267–68, 271, 273
Shige’s wedding and, 167–68
Shimoda and, 232–33
siege of Wakamatsu and, 36, 48, 96, 238
Sino-Japanese War victory and, 239
smoking and, 232
Takeo’s death and, 271
Tonami exile of, 38–39, 40, 48
on training children, 127–28
Tsuda College and, 259, 262, 269
Ume and, 108, 109, 115–16, 117, 133, 134–35, 138, 179, 182, 183, 189, 193, 198, 203–4, 210, 215, 235, 253, 273
as unable to read or write Japanese, 155, 175
Vassar attended by, 129, 131–34, 135–36, 138, 139–40, 163, 225, 226, 262, 266–67
Vassar commencement of, 141–43, 144, 147, 148, 179, 239
in Washington, D.C., 91, 95, 105
wedding of, 181–82, 192
Western-style clothing and, 215–16
withdrawal of, 215–16, 274–75
on women’s rights, 127
see also Iwakura Mission, girls of
Oyama, Takashi, 215, 216, 270–71
Oyama family, 233, 241, 242, 244
Paris, 78
Peerage Act of 1884, 206
Peeresses’ School, 199, 200, 204–5, 209–12, 213, 225, 226, 232–33, 247, 249, 254, 256, 259
as conservative, 233, 245
Empress Haruko and, 199, 205–6, 220–22, 223
foreign dress required by, 213–14
Imperial Palace tour for, 217–18
mission statement of, 240
Peers’ Club, see Rokumeikan
Peers’ School, 217, 218
Pennsylvania, 234, 246
Pennsylvania Railroad, 226
Perinchief, Octavius, 120, 123–24
Perry, Matthew, 28–29, 30, 45, 48, 52, 54, 75, 115, 119, 236
Pescadores, 270
Philadelphia, Pa., 97, 225, 233, 253, 257
Centennial Exhibition in, 121–24, 179, 184
Philalethean Society, 134, 139–40, 154, 173
Philippines, 27
photography, Japanese superstitions about, 52
Pitman, Helen, 114, 168
Pitman, Leila, 114, 168
Pitman, Lizzie, 114, 168
Pitman family, 114, 115
Pocket Edition of Japanese Equivalents for the Most Common English Words, A, 57
Pope, Alexander, 251
Popular Fairy Tales, 261
Porter, Noah, 140
Portugal, 27, 29
“potato samurai,” 34, 41, 177
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 128–34, 135–36, 138, 139–40, 141–43, 144, 148
Poughkeepsie Eagle, 142, 271
Promontory Summit, 82
Protestants, Protestantism, 118
Pullman, George M., 82, 85
Quakers, 246
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 228
Radcliffe College, 144, 250
Raleigh, Walter, 106
“Recollections of Japanese Family Life” (Yamakawa Oyama), 154–55
Red Cross, 237, 275
Richardson Incident (1862), 42
Ritter, Frederick, 132, 136
ritual suicide, 25, 36, 37
Rockefeller Foundation, 275
Rokumeikan, 195–96, 200–202, 209, 263–64
Roosevelt, Theodore, 270
Rouge et Noir, 76
Royal Italian Circus, 209
Russia, 27, 30, 43, 236, 270
Russian Orthodoxy, 48
Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), 270, 274
Rutgers Grammar School, 80
Sacramento, Calif., 82–83
Saigo, Takamori, 184
Saigo, Tsugumichi, 178, 184n
St. Hilda’s Hall, 251
St. Petersburg, 133, 141
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84–85, 192
samurai, samurai families, 19, 89
abolished class of, 155
coastlines patrolled by, 27–28, 119
code of loyalty and honor of, 21
discipline of, 21, 26, 94
dolls collected by, 26
domain abolishment and, 41
as emperor’s intimate advisors, 51
farming and, 38
girls in, 34
as hereditary warrior class, 21
humiliation of, 39
intimacy and, 116
in Iwakura Mission, 63
money and, 28
morals of, 99
population of, 21
pride and, 110
as shishi, 31, 33
sleep and, 94
status of, 188
stipends provided to, 21, 28, 41
sword as signature weapon of, 29
training for, 39, 89
wives, 43
samurai culture, 21
samurai mansions (bukeyashiki), 19, 50
Sanders, Mr., 148
San Francisco, Calif., 65, 69–82, 104, 149–51, 164, 165–66, 192, 223
San Francisco Assaying and Refining Works, 76
San Francisco Bulletin, 104
San Francisco Chronicle, 72, 75, 77, 78, 136, 285n
Sasaki, Takayuki, 64, 65, 285n
Satsuma domain, 33, 34, 39, 41, 42, 53, 89, 169, 177, 178, 184, 244
Satsuma Rebellion, 184
Savell, Jeffrey and Margaret, 120–21
Sawabe, Takuma, 48
Schnell, John Henry, 56
Schubert, Franz, 132
Scott, Walter, 147
Scudder, Horace E., 228
Second Artillery Band, 73
Seito, 272
Self-help (Smiles), 185, 223
Serata, Tasuku, 168, 189
Seven Sisters, 129
Shakespeare, William, 106, 147, 173, 176, 251
Shakespeare Society, 133
Shanahan, Julia, 137–38
Sheffield Scientific School, 99
Shimbun Zasshi, 54
Shimoda, Utako, 193, 196, 197, 198, 204, 207, 210–11, 232–33, 240
Shinagawa, 164
shishi, xenophobia of, 31, 33
shogun, 21
alternate attendance required by, 22
bureaucracy of, 33
daimyo and, 22
shishi and, 31
see also Tokugawa shogunate
Sierra Nevada, 83
Silas Marner (Eliot), 261
Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), 236–40, 245, 257
Smiles, Samuel, 185, 186, 223, 230
Smith College, 128, 226
Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (Harvard Annex), 145
Soho, Tokutomi, 238–39, 248
Soper, Junius, 120
Southworth, Anne, 232
Spain, 27
Spenser, Edmund, 106
Squam Lake, N.H., 255
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 127, 131
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 122
State Central Woman Suffrage Committee of California, 81
State Department, U.S., 91, 92
Stebbins, Horatio, 81
Stephenson, Lucy, 117
study abroad:
in
America, 43, 80, 87–88, 94, 99, 102, 114–15, 118, 227, 228–34
of Chinese, 100, 103, 111, 123
for men, 43, 44, 46, 80, 87–88, 89, 94, 99, 114–15, 118, 228
for women and girls, 17, 44, 48, 51, 99, 227, 228–34
see also Iwakura Mission, girls of
suffrage, 81
Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki, 7, 13, 67, 159
Sullivan, Arthur, 208
Sumner, Charles, 121
Suzuki, Utako, 259
Takaki, Mrs., 162
Takaki, Saburo, 142, 161–62
Takamine, Hideo, 253–54, 257
Tan Yaoxun (Yew Fun Tan), 111–12, 140
telegraph, 79
ten-men groups, 24–25
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 251
Thomas, Martha Carey, 227, 230, 231, 234, 250, 256, 257, 258, 260
Tokugawa, Iesada (shogun), 30
Tokugawa, Ieyasu (shogun), 21, 27
Tokugawa, Ieyoshi (shogun), 30
Tokugawa, Yoshinobu (shogun), 32, 33
Tokugawa family, 23
Tokugawa shogunate, 21–22, 24, 26–30, 61, 217
American travels and, 45
antiforeign stance of, 27
Christianity declared illegal by, 27
end of, 33, 41
foreigners and, 28
guns and, 29
isolationist policies of, 30
opposition to, 31, 32, 33
peace in rule of, 23, 27, 28
see also Japan, Edo-era
Tokyo (Edo), 12, 22, 23, 30, 52, 60, 95, 115, 119, 146, 184, 225, 226, 274
American missionaries in, 189–90
cannons in, 29
cholera epidemic in, 208, 215
city name changed to, 40
Emperor and Empress relocation to, 51
Great Kanto Earthquake in (1923), 275
influenza in, 242, 275
Iwakura girls’ recruitment in, 48, 49–50
jinrikishas in, 50, 162
Tokugawa shogunate headquarters in, 21
Tokyo Charity Hospital, 200, 202
Tokyo Imperial University, 162
Tokyo Music School, 169, 189, 235
Tonami, 38–39, 40, 47, 48, 49
Townsend House, 84, 85
Toyo Jojuku, 193
Toyotomi, Hideyoshi, 237
Tremont House, 87, 288n
Triple Intervention, 239
True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary’s Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe (Kume), 47
Tsuda, Fuki, 210, 240–41
Tsuda, Hatsuko, 94, 116–17, 203
Tsuda, Koto, 58, 116–17, 120, 165, 166, 190, 269
Tsuda, Sen, 57–58, 95, 116, 118, 119–20, 166, 169, 170–71, 188–89, 190, 195, 204, 229, 246, 258, 266
Tsuda, Tomi, 203
Tsuda, Ume, 12, 13, 49, 50, 53, 57–58, 59–60, 62, 67, 71, 78, 89, 95, 98, 172, 202, 206–7, 219, 224
Adeline Lanman as foster mother to, 94, 101, 104–5, 116, 117, 189, 197
Adeline Lanman’s reunions with, 250, 272
Alice and, 211–13, 214, 216, 220, 221, 226–27, 228–29, 235, 238, 239, 241, 242, 248–49, 250, 254, 267–68, 275