Read Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 Online
Authors: Donald Keene
Tags: #History/Asia/General
China: defeat of, in Opium War; laborers in, mistreatment of; relations with Ry
ū
ky
ū
; and native Taiwanese; reception of foreign ministers in; on Japanese invasion of Taiwan; and Meiji; Grant in; military strength of; war with France; relations with Korea; relations with Japan; fleet of, visit to Japan; Sino-Japanese War; relations with Russia; foreign occupation of areas of; disturbances in; T’ai P’ing Rebellion in; antiforeign activity in; emperor of; and Russo-Japanese War; and modernization; elections in; republican government in; people’s identification with Japanese; on Japan’s acceptance of West; classics as source of imperial names in.
See also
Sino-Japanese War
Chiossone, Eduardo
Chi-yüan
(Chinese cruiser)
Cho Chung-ung (agriculture and industry minister, Korea)
Ch
ō
Tsurahide
Ch’oe Che-u (founder of Tonghak movement)
Ch’oe Si-hyong
Ch
ō
sen.
See
Korea
Ch
ō
setsu (pavilion, Listening to the Snow)
Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain: actions against foreigners in; rebellion against
kobu gattai
faction in; shogunate’s war on; alliance of, with Satsuma domain; men’s role in government of
Chou, duke of
Chou En-lai
Christianity: suppression of; Yokoi on; punishment of believers in; in China; in Korea; converts to
ch
ū
(loyalty)
Chu Hsi
Ch
ū
koku-sha
ch
ū
kun aikoku
(loyalty to the sovereign and love of country)
Chung Pyung Ha (agriculture minister, Korea)
Chungch’uwon (Privy Council, Korea)
Ch
ū
ritsu (Neutral) Party
Classic of Filial Piety
(Confucian text)
clothes: expensive, prohibition against wearing of; Haruko’s; adoption of Western; for samurai, changes in; for Japanese women, at court functions; foreigners’ wearing of Japanese.
See also
Meiji: dress
Cockerill, John Albert (
New York Herald
correspondent)
Commission of Imperial Mourning
commoners
communications, improvements in
“Concerning Equal Rights for Men and Women” (Ueki)
concubines.
See gon no tenji;
Hamuro Mitsuko; Hashimoto Natsuko; Ogura Fumiko; Sono Sachiko; Yanagihara Naruko
Conder, Josiah
Confucian rulers
Confucian virtues
Confucianism
conscription
constitution: Meiji’s rescript on rough draft of; considerations on creation of; progress toward; Yamagata on; drafts of; as gift of emperor; public announcement of; article in, on freedom of religion
constitutional government
constitutional law
court: and shogunate; and opening of country; frugality of; on strengthening national defenses; Meiji’s first participation in activities of; antiforeign sentiments of; increasing importance of; response of, to battle in Satsuma domain; reprimand of Iemochi by; ladies of; response of, to Yoshinobu’s desire to open Hy
ō
go; lack of administrative and legislative organs at; Nishi Amane’s proposal for; on foreign relations; prevalence of old-style culture at; rapid Westernization of; physicians of; empress’s ornamental role at; mourning for Queen Victoria at; and Russian court
Court Council: and foreign affairs; and K
ō
mei’s abdication edict; and Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; and site for capital; and Korea; and China; and Kanghwa Island incident; Meiji’s presence at; order of, abolishing Ry
ū
ky
ū
domain.
See also
Privy Council
Cowen, Thomas (
Times
[London] correspondent)
Creelman, James (
World
[New York] correspondent)
crimes, punishment of
criminal code
crown lands
crown prince (Korea).
See also
Yi Eun
cultural imitation
Culture Day
Daigo Tadaoki (acting major counselor)
Daiichi Bank
daimyos:
fudai
;
tozama
; court visits by; interest of, in preservation of power; response of, to restoration of imperial rule; rebel; return of lands to emperor by; abolition of title of; influence of; acceptance of
haihan chiken
by
dancing
d’Anethan, Baroness Albert
danj
ō
no in
(princely status)
Darien, China
Date Munenari (nobleman)
“Datsua ron” (On Escaping from Asia; Fukuzawa)
De Graeff van Polsbroek, Dirk
De Long, Charles E.
death penalty, end of
decorations: Japan’s generosity with
NAMES:
Annunciade; Gold Cordon of St. Alexander Nevsky; Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and the Paulownia Flower; Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum; Légion d’Honneur; Order of the Chrysanthemum; Order of the Elephant; Order of the Garter; Order of the Golden Fleece; Order of the Golden Kite; Order of the Rising Sun; Order of the Sacred Crown, First Class; Order of the Sacred Treasure; Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
Delcassé, Théophile (foreign minister, France)
Denby, Charles (American minister to China)
Detring, Gustav
Diana
(Russian warship)
Dickins, F. V.
Diet (legislative branch): Meiji on; ceremonies at opening of; dissolutions of; conflict of, with government; special session of; stalemate of, with cabinet; and tax increase bill; Meiji’s opening of
Dillon, E. J.
diplomacy.
See also
foreign affairs
diseases: smallpox; beriberi; trachoma; typhus; cholera; meningitis; pneumonia; influenza; measles; hepatitus; epidemics
divination.
See
yin-yang divination
doctors of law
Dogger Bank incident
domains: anti-shogunate; replacement of, with prefectures; anti-government, league of; need for abolition of
NAMES:
Aizu; Hagi; Hizen; Mito; Morioka; Marugame; Nagaoka; Sendai; Sh
ō
nai; Tosa; Tsu.
See also
Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; Satsuma domain
Donker Curtius, Jan Hendrik (Dutch commissioner)
Drake, John William
Dun, Edwin (American minister to Japan)
Dye, William M.
earthquakes
Edel, Leon
Edo.
See
T
ō
ky
ō
Edo Castle.
See
T
ō
ky
ō
(
formerly
Edo) Castle
education: Meiji’s interest in; debate over; technical; importance attached to; compulsory.
See also
schools; universities
educational system.
See also
schools
Edward VII (king of England)
Eight Diagram Sect
elections
Elements of International Law
(Wheaton)
Elias, Norbert
emperors: as figureheads; life spans of; role of, in government; and shogunate; leisure activities of; education of; in Tokugawa period; abdicated travels of; isolation of; increasing authority of; and domains; foreigners’ views of; and subjects; relations with soldiers and sailors; sovereignty rights of, under constitution; worship of; personal government by; official day of death of; posthumous names of.
See also
court; imperial family; K
ō
kaku Emperor; K
ō
mei; Meiji
empress dowager (K
ō
mei’s consort): Westernized appearance of; desire of, for economies; final illness and death of; Meiji’s naming as Dowager Empress Eish
ō
; funeral of; names for
empresses, maternal rights of
England.
See
Great Britain
English language
Enomoto Takeaki (shogunate rebel,
later
minister to China,
later
education minister): and shogun’s fleet; and Yoshihisa; revolt led by; resistance of, to imperial government; leniency to; raiding of government ships by; and treaty with Russia; and China; educational policy of; observation of copper poisoning by; death of
Enry
ō
kan
Essence of Socialism, The
(K
ō
toku)
Et
ō
Shimpei
Etorofu island
expansionism
extraterritoriality: Treaty of Shimoda on; and assassinations; of Japanese in Korea; abrogations of; Kalakaua on ending; Parkes on; end of; House of Representatives’ bill on.
See also
treaty revision
Ezo republic
famines
farmer-poets
farmers
Feast of Tench
ō
feudalism
Fifth Infantry Regiment
Fifth National Industrial Exhibition
Fillmore, Millard
First Army
five bandits of 1905 (
ulsa ojok
)
Five Point Fortress
floods
Flying Fish
(British surveyor ship)
foreign affairs: Court Council’s consent on; Donker Curtius on; Nagai Uta on; early forays into; emperor’s assumption of; under imperial rule; proclamation on; during; conflict of, with domestic affairs; and international cooperation; during.
See also
Korea; Russo-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War; treaties
foreign diplomats
foreign heads of state
foreign languages
foreign loans
Foreign Ministry
foreign press, bribery of
foreign relations.
See
foreign affairs
foreign ships.
See also
allied fleet
foreign trade
foreigners: K
ō
mei’s attitude toward; shogunate’s intentions for; proposed expulsion of; demand of, for opening of Hy
ō
go; practice of religion by; support of, for tycoon; Meiji’s dealings with; violence against; people on; first view of emperor by; and shogunate–imperial conflict; purification of; Grant on employment of; as teachers; marriage to; as judges; in China.
See also
Donker Curtius, Jan Hendrik; extraterritoriality; France; Great Britain; Holland; Parkes Harry S.; Perry, Matthew Calbraith; Russia; United States; xenophobia
fortifications, against foreign ships
France: warship of, visit to Japan; Japanese mission to; rivalry of, with Britain; and shogunate; killing of sailors from; educational system of, as model for Japan; war with China; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; and Russo-Japanese War; occupation of Yunnan region of China by; posthumous tributes to Meiji in; proposal for alliance of, with Japan.
See also
Roches, Léon
Franco-Prussian War
Fraser, Hugh (British minister to Japan)
Fraser, Mary
Freedom and Popular Rights movement
freedom of assembly
freedom of religion
freedom of the press
French Indochina
French Revolution
Fuji, Mount
Fujimaru (page)
Fujinami Kototada (chamberlain)
Fukiage Garden
Fukuba Bisei
Fukuchi Gen’ichir
ō
(
Ō
chi)
Fukuhara Echigo
Fukui, transition to prefecture system in
Fukuoka Prefecture
Fukuoka Takachika (education minister)
Fukushima incident
Fukushima Village
Fukuzawa Yukichi; on tycoon monarchy; on purification ceremony; vulnerability of, to assassination; and Kim Ok-kyun; on war with China; Meiji’s gift to; on Japanese–British alliance
Fumiko, Princess (Meiji’s daughter)
funerals
Furukawa Ichibei (mine operator)
Furukawa Rikisaku (anarchist)
Furutaka Shuntar
ō
Fusako, Princess (Meiji’s daughter)
Fusehara Nobusato
Fushimi Momoyama
Ga Noriyuki (professor of English)
Gakk
ō
-t
ō
(political party)
Gakush
ū
-in (school for children of nobility)
Ganko-t
ō
(political party)