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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back

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by Janice P. Nimura


  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

 

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