Tokyo from Edo to Showa 1867-1989
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snow viewing, 134-35, 139
Society for Improving the Theater, 155-56
soaplands, 531, 532, 556, 583
Socialist Party, 520, 529, 548-49
Soeta Azembō, 353
sōkaiya (general-meeting business), 524, 525, 587
Somehow Crystal (Tanaka), 555-56
Spencer (balloonist), 117, 154, 157, 267, 271, 346
spiritual mobilization, 384, 403
sports, 399; golf, 591; see also baseball; Sumō wrestling; swimmers
spring, 135-37, 140-41, 144-45
standard of living, 439
“stick girl,” 311, 323, 324
Strange Tale from East of the River, A (Kafū), 323, 527-28
street life, 235, 397, 570, 571, 582, 583
street lights, 92-94
street minstrels (enkashi), 167-68, 171
street numbers, 105-06
street pattern, 50-51, 96, 233, 298, 422, 423
street performers, 509
streets, 96; High City, 233; house numbers on, 195-96; naming of, 561-62; widening of, 499-500; traffic on left side of, 105
strip shows, 354, 395, 556, 566, 594
students, 237-38, 271, 344, 473, 548 and illus., 552-53, 601-02
student uniforms, 111
suburbs, 326-29
subways, 34, 497, 501, 528-29
sufu (staple fiber), 403, 409
Sugamo Prison, 409, 491and illus., 519, 551, 564
Sugawara Michizane, 136
Suginami Ward, 419, 573, 574
suicide, 319-23, 412, 534-35
Sullivan, Arthur, 44-45
Sukiyabashi (Sukiya Bridge), 498, 500
Sumako (actress), 172, 266-67
Sumida embankment, 135, 136, 139, 216, 273, 274, 567
Sumida Park, 293, 308, 312, 345, 369
Sumida River, 24, 41, 142, 159, 295, 308, 323, 369, 415, 434, 440, 441, 450, 457, 459, 468, 501, 503, 526, 531, 546, 593; flood-control devices on, 216-17, 257; flooding of, 72; “opening” of, 115, 142, 247
Sumō wrestling, 156, 168-69, 214-15, 274, 347-48, 399, 468-71, 471, 544, 590-91
Sunshine Building, 535, 564 and illus.
Suntory (whiskey maker), 599
super high-rises, 551
supermarkets, 494, 538, 560
Supreme Court, 239, 480, 532
Susaki district, 457, 530-31
Susaki licensed quarter, 218
Suzugamori, 528
Suzuki Shunichi, 486-88, 573, 575, 600
Suzumoto, 450-51
sweet potato, 432, 433
swimmers, 495
swordplay troupes, 365
Tachikawa Base: Ten Solid Years of Rape, 520
Taihō, 544
Taira Masakado, see Masakado
Taishō democracy, 255, 276
Taishō emperor, 250-51
Taishō era, 298, 304-06 and illus., 305, 317, 323-26, 329-30
Taishō Hakurankai (Taishō Exposition) (1914), 251
Taishō look, 251-53, 276
Taishō Period, 251-77
Taitō Ward, 441, 456, 566, 567
Tajiri Inajirō, 254
Takahama Kyoshi, 89
Takahashi O-den, 154, 165, 166, 209, 401, 491, 534
Takami Jun, 389, 412, 421, 535, 569
Takano Fruits Parlor, 334, 429
Takarazuka theater, 117-19, 176, 178, 305-6, 335
Takeda Rintarō, 341, 342, 344, 535, 569
Takehisa Yumeji, see Yumeji
Tama district, 47
Tamanoi district, 321-22, 336, 388
Tameike Pond, 137
Tameike reservoir, 68
Tamura Taijirō, 459, 569
Tanaka Giichi, 301
Tanaka Kakuei, 586
Tanaka Kinuyo, 451
Tanaka Yasuo, 555-56
Tange Kenzō, 517 and illus., 603
Tani, Tony, 453
Tanizaki Junichirō, 29, 46, 69-70, 153, 199, 293, 310-12, 339-40, 494; at English school, 56; and fire baskets, 78; on shadows and dark places, 92-93; see also Makioka Sisters, The
Tatsuno, 64
Taut, Bruno, 400-01
taxis, 60, 160-61, 259, 409, 433, 493, 537, 582
Tayama Katai, 96, 193
tea bushes, 231-32
tea ceremony (chanoyu), 36, 292
teahouses, 55, brothels and, 173, 175, 178, 238; rendezvous (machiaijaya), 181; shady (kagemajaya), 238; theater, 152, 153-54, 157-58
tea shops (kissaten), 344, 461
teeth, blackening of, 101, 102, 207
telephone service, 120, 270 and illus., 317
television, 397, 451, 452, 511-12, 545, 558, 566, 594
temples, 139, 163, 191, 206, 209-10, 241
Tempō sumptuary edicts, 39
Tennōji Temple, 209
tenkō (recanting), 405
Terajima, 527-28
Terry, Philip, 74-75, 252, 257-58
theaters, 248, 394-97, 446-49, 566-67 and illus., 593; of Edo, 37-38; Kabuki, see Kabuki theater; movie, 128-29, 260; Nō, 133; Western, 265-67; see also movie theaters; Nō drama; reviews; Yose theater; and individual establishments
“third nationals,” 429, 463, 568
Tiger Gate Incident (1926), 301, 302, 303
Tochinishiki, 470, 544
Tōhō, 394-95, 449, 560
Tōjin O-kichi, 358
Tōjō Hideki, 414, 420, 491, 519
Tokaidō highway, 178, 186, 223
Tokiwa bridge, 29
Tokuda Shūsei, 234, 238
Tokugawa castle, 77
Tokugawa cemetery (tombs), 126, 221
Tokugawa Musei, 393
Tokugawa regime, 28, 32, 40, 42, 43, 130; end of, 40-45, 46
Tokutomi Roka, 232
Tokyo: boundaries of, 47, 254; as capital district, 48; as a collection of villages, 51, 269, 276; establishment of, as capital, 44-46; government of, 48, 269; pronunciations of name, 44; see also Edo; High City; Low City
Tokyo Central Station, 62, 63, 76, 82, 87, 89, 90, 123, 225, 294, 332, 377, 384, 422, 423, 490, 498, 501, 513, 515, 517, 520, 569, 577, 603
Tokyo Hotel, 229
Tokyo International Airport, 585
Tokyo March, 351
“Tokyo Ondo” (“Tokyo Dance”), 320-21
Tokyo Onsen, 424-25
Tokyo Prefecture, 47
Tokyo School of English, see First Higher School
Tokyo Shibaura (manufacturing firm), 223
Tokyo Stadium, 545, 579
Tokyo Theater (Tōkyō Gekijō; Togeki), 545, 579
Tokyo Tower, 223, 479, 492, 510-11, 517-18 and illus., 551, 564, 569
Tokyo University, 33, 53, 126, 348, 443, 479, 540, 548 and illus., 601, 602
Tomioka Hachiman, 219
Tōkyū (Tokyo Express), 328, 336, 489
Tōkyū (Shirokiya) department store, 516, 562, 563
totalitarianism, 384, 403
tourist buses, 435, 594
Tōyoko department store, 330, 336
traffic, 492
traffic on left side of street, 105
transportation, 58-65, 97, 275-76, 483, 488-90; in Edo, 37-38; Olympics (1964) and, 496-502; see also public transportation; specific modes of transportation
Treaty of San Francisco, 334, 459, 461
tribes (zoku), 493-94, 508, 516, 536, 553, 560, 583
trolleys, 60-62, 223
trolley system, 60, 62, 94, 275, 332, 486-87, 492, 578
Tsubouchi Shōyo, 266, 341-42, 349
Tsuki
ji fish market, 370
Tsukiji quarter, 53-58, 53
Tsukuba university and research complex, 601-02
tuberculosis, 494
Turkish baths, 34, 531, 532, 556
Twelve Storys (Ryōunkaku), 26, 84, 85-86 and illus., 129, 249, 264, 296-97, 353
typhus, 430-31
uchigeba (politically motivated fights), 584, 585
Ueno, 45, 91, 124-25, 208, 324, 326, 330, 331, 567-68
Ueno Park, 25, 45, 113, 125, 126, 137, 206, 208, 312, 317, 352, 466, 478, 519, 566, 568
Ueno Station, 125, 206, 316, 419, 431, 597
Ueno Zoo, 412, 500
Uguisudani (Warbler Valley), 137
Umesao Tadao, 518
Umezaki Haruo, 475
Under What Stars (Takami), 389, 390, 392
underworld, 268, 429, 463, 470, 525
uniforms, student, 111
United States embassy, 148, 228, 231, 439, 446, 551, 563
United States legation, 51, 58, 229; attack on (1905), 148
universities, 212, 237, 328, 566, 601-02
unlicensed quarters, 335-36, 457-58
Ushigome Ward, 325, 413, 479, 527
vacant lots, Kafū on, 132
variety or vaudeville halls (Yose), 37
vending machines, 316, 503-04, 539
violence, 205-6, 253-4; see also crime
vogues: happenings and events, 508-09; pachinko, 463-64 and illus.; suicide, 319-23, 534-35; yo-yos, 320; see also tribes
Wakanohana, 470, 544
Wakayama Tokugawa estate, 230, 236
wards, 226-27, 240-41, 375-76, 442-45
Waseda, 139
Waseda University, 366-67, 579
Washington Heights, 489, 504, 507, 510, 561
waste disposal, 95, 274-75
watch of the twenty-sixth night, 140
Waters, Thomas, 73, 81
water supply, 47, 95, 502
water vendors, 95, 275
waterways, 37-38, 68, 69, 106, 218, 299, 314, 498; see also canals
weddings, 105, 412
weeds, Kafū on, 132
wells, 27, 32, 95, 237, 275
Westerners, see foreigners
Western influences, 101-49
westernization, 131, 201, 311, 312, 328
Westmouth (Ikebukuro,) 565
What Happened the Night the Lights Went Out (Kafū), 387, 388
What Is Your Name? (radio serial), 498
white-collar crime, 524, 587
Whitney, Clara, 110-11, 116-17, 144, 154, 215, 222
willows, 76, 259 and illus.
Wirgman, Charles, 66
wisteria, 136, 219, 264
Woman in the Rented Room, The (Kafū), 300
women: clothing of, 107, 319, 326, 510; cosmetics and, 326; department stores and, 316; in the performing arts, 167, 172; in police force, 442; in reviews, 356-58; in sakariba, 325-26; Sumō and, 168; during Taishō, 252, 266, 270-71; tooth-blackening by, 102; working, 317-18
Women’s Higher Normal School, 237
woodcuts, 32, 68, 126, 194
World Trade Center, 551
World War I, 254, 255, 262
World War II: air raids. 413-20, 416; Asakusa and, 385-93, 394, baseball and, 398-99; government reorganization and, 408-09; reviews and, 385-87; surrender, 420-21; see also postwar period
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 268, 507, 577-78 and illus.
writers, 244-45
xenophobia, 27, 146, 403, 404
Yaesuguchi (Yaesu Mouth), 333
Yamamoto cabinet, 300
Yamanote, see High City
Yamanote line, 332, 578
Yamazaki, 479
Yanagibashi 69, 225, 225, 543-44; geisha quarter in, 182-83
Yanaka district, 209, 244
Yanaka Pagoda, 534, 535
Yasuda Castle, 548, 553, 585
Yasuda Zenjirō, 49
Yasui Seiichirō, 421
Yasukuni Jinja (shrine), 133, 135, 139, 274, 384, 589
Yayoichō, 528
Year of the Wild Boar (Mears), 405
Yodobashi reservoir, 483, 552
Yokohama, 44, 56, 60, 62-63, 63, 106, 602, 604
Yomiuri Giants, 170, 348-49
Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper), 302-03, 369, 476
yoromeki, 536
Yose (variety or vaudeville halls), 37, 160-61, 162, 349, 450-51, 528, 566, 571, 594
Yoshichō district, 592
Yoshida Shigeru, 444
Yoshiwara, 28, 37, 39, 40, 47, 77, 171-78, 173, 177, 210, 487, 511, 528, 530, 532, 533; after 1923 earthquake, 297, 321-23; festivals in, 175-77; fires in, 77 and illus., 177-78; rebuilding of (after 1911 fire), 178
Yotsuya Ward, 47, 52, 178, 232, 236, 486
Young, John Russell, 51-52, 269
Yoyogi, 517
yo-yos, 320
yukaihan, 588
Yumeji (artist), 252, 259
Yumeji girl, 252, 253 and illus., 260, 276
Yūrakuchō Mullion, 559, 563
Yūrakuchō Station, 459
Yushima quarter, 238
Yushima Shrine, 136
Zephyr (film), 452
Zero Year celebrations (1940), 382-84
Zōjōji temple, 222
zoku (tribes), 493-94, 508, 516, 536, 553, 560, 583