Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (214 page)

rangakusha
(scholars of Dutch learning)

ranjatai
(ancient log of incense wood)

Red Flag incident

Redesdale, Lord.
See
Mitford A. B.

Reed, Edward James

regalia, imperial

Reigen, Emperor

reign-name.
See neng
ō

Reizei Tametada (court poet)

religion.
See also
Buddhism; Christianity; Shint
ō

Repeated Victories on Land and Sea, the Glorious Rising-Sun Flag
(kabuki play)

republican government

Rescript on Education
(Motoda)

Residency General

retinues, size of

revenue bill

revolts; against Meiji Restoration; led by Enomoto; by peasants; Shinp
ū
ren; Tonghak

rice

Richardson, Charles

rickshaw coolies

“righteous army” (Korea)

Rikken jiy
ū
-t
ō
.
See
Jiy
ū
-t
ō

Rikken kai shint
ō
(Constitutional Reform Party)

Rikken seiy
ū
kai.
See
Seiy
ū
kai

Rikken teiseit
ō
(Constitutional Imperial Rule Party)

Rinn
ō
jinomiya.
See
Yoshihisa Prince

Risshi-sha (Self-Help Society)

rituals.
See
ceremonies and rituals

roads

Roches, Léon (French minister to Japan): and Yoshinobu; on Meiji’s education; and shogunate; response of, to killing of French sailors; audience of, with Meiji

Rockhill, William H.

Rokumeikan (residence for foreign guests)

Roosevelt, Theodore: friendship message to Meiji from; hatred of Russians; meetings of with Kaneko; as mediator in Russo-Japanese War; recommendation of for invasion of Sakhalin; awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to; message to Takahira from

Rosen, Baroness

Rosen, Roman (Russian minister to Japan); and negotiations with Japan; knowledge of Japanese troop movements; on world opinion against Russia; on Meiji

Rösler, K. F. H.

Russia: trade with; fleet of; treaties with; encampment on Tsushima Islands; Meiji on; and China; and Sino-Japanese War; and Korea; agreement with Japan secret provisions of; Far East policy of and Anglo-Japanese Alliance; military strength of; administration of territories in Far East; attack of on British trawlers; unpopularity of Russo-Japanese War in; Japanese agents in; as prime hypothetical enemy.
See also
Putiatin E. V.; Russo-Japanese War; Sakhalin

Russian Socialist Party

Russification

Russo-Japanese War;
Ō
tsu incident as precursor to; causes of; actions and negotiations before outbreak of; Japan’s preparations for; declarations of; treatment of Russian prisoners of war during; defeat of Russian fleet in; Meiji’s involvement in; and Meiji’s rescript on naval victory; peace negotiations during; Japan’s objectives for; protests against peace treaty, in Japan; and Britain; repercussions of Japan’s victory in; war fever during

Russo-Japanese War Poem A
(Oakley)

Ry
ō
jo (chief abbot of Kakush
ō
-in)

Ry
ū
ky
ū
Islands

Ry
ū
ky
ū
kingdom (
later
domain)

Sabatin Alexander

Sachi no i (Sachi’s Well, Well of Good Fortune)

Sachiko, Princess

Sachinomiya.
See
Meiji

Sadaedang (Serving the Great Party)

Sadamaro, Prince (Yorihito)

Sadanaru, Prince

Saegusa Shigeru

Saeki Riichir
ō

Saga Castle

Saga rebellion

Sagara Nagaoki (major)

Saig
ō
Takamori (army minister,
later
interior minister): and Sanj
ō
’s exile; and Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; and shogunate; at meeting on government reform; as commander of imperial forces; and Katsu; at surrender of Edo Castle; advocacy of
haihan chiken
by; and Ministry of the Imperial Household; on Meiji’s Westernized dress; and Household Guards; on Korea; and Et
ō
on actions against native Taiwanese; and China; opposition of to government; private schools founded by; and Satsuma Rebellion; and Meiji; last stand of; mission of to
Ō
kuma; posthumous promotion of; and new cabinet; as interior minister; and revenue bill; treatment of for corpulence; exalted reputation of; students as troops under.
See also
Kagoshima: army of

VIEWS:
on clash between shogunate and imperial armies; on changes in imperial household; on Meiji’s “mission” to distant parts of Japan; on sending troops to Korea; on maneuvers; on government assassination plot; on emperor’s rule

Saig
ō
Tsugumichi (Takamori’s younger brother, interior minister)

Saikoku risshi hen
(Self-Help; Smiles)

Sa’in (legislative branch of government).
See also
House of Peers; House of Representatives

Saionji Kinmochi (minister to Austria,
later
minister to Germany,
later
prime minister); suggestion of, for Meiji’s trip to West; and revised treaty; mission of to Korea; as acting prime minister; on financial retrenchment bill; and Meiji’s acceptance of Order of the Garter; cabinet of; as holder of simultaneous government posts; resignation of

Sakai (publisher)

Sakai Tadaaki (shogunate official)

Sakai Toshihiko

Sakamoto Ry
ō
ma (Tosa intellectual)

saké

Sakhalin: border dispute over; treaty settling possession of; prospects of Japanese invasion of; Russia’s ownership of; Russia’s cession of southern half of; decoration for boundary stone on

Sakuma Sh
ō
zan (Confucian scholar)

samurai: lowered prestige of; impact of
haihan chiken
on; as backbone of intelligentsia; as chamberlains; as observers of Franco-Prussian War; predicament of; Meiji’s first visit to house of; stipends for; unrest among; resentment of modernization among; of Akizuki; of Kumamoto desertion to Saig
ō
’s army; plan of for
Ō
kubo’s assassination; political influence of; Sanj
ō
on; loss of morality among; welcome for czarevitch by; as class Meiji on

San Francisco

Sanj
ō
Sanetomi (imperial envoy,
later
vice president); mission of to shogunate; and Meiji; actions against; debate over fate of; on Christians; at Charter Oath ceremonies; as chief editor of history of Japan; as minister of the right; at proclamation of
haihan chiken
; and Korea; nervous breakdown suffered by; bulletin of, to commanding officers in Saga; Shimazu’s attack on; at n
ō
performance; and
Ō
yama Tsunayoshi; at strategy meetings; message of, to Ry
ū
ky
ū
high officials; description of; and sale of government properties; and Yamagata’s proposal on constitution; consideration of Kuroda as minister of the right by; as interim prime minister; death of; and Hoshi

VIEWS:
on Meiji’s leaving T
ō
ky
ō
on Meiji’s second visit to east; on Korean incident; on Shinp
ū
ren revolt; on constitutional government; on avoidance of war with China; on proposal for Shint
ō
agency

Sanj
ō
Sanetsumu (military liaison officer)

Sank
ō
-ji faction

Sansom, George

Sasaki Nobutsuna

Sasaki Sadako

Sasaki Takayuki (councillor); abolition of office of; and Meiji; proposal of for Shint
ō
agency; diaries of; and princesses; and Ozaki’s dismissal

VIEWS:
on Meiji’s assumption of personal rule; on financial crisis; on changes to court protocol; on cabinet collapse; on Kuroda as minister of the right; on treaty revision; on Meiji’s taking advice from court women; on regulations on public gatherings

Sasamori Gisuke (samurai)

Sassa Masayuki

Satow, Ernest: on K
ō
mei’s final illness; on Yoshinobu’s decision to cede power to court; visit of to Ky
ō
to; on killing of French sailors; on
seppuku
; attack on; on Parkes; on decline of Edo; on draft constitutions

Satsuma domain: as intermediary between emperor and shogunate; British battle with; alliance of with Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; pact of with Tosa domain; Meiji’s review of troops from;
r
ō
nin
’s actions in Edo; Kido on; and politicians’ actions against
Ō
kuma; councillors from; domination of police force by; men’s role in government of

Satsuma Rebellion; prelude to; first clash of; and Meiji; entrance of Kagoshima troops into Kumamoto during; first shots of; objective of; government army’s first victory in; destruction caused by; aftermath of; influence of on Risshi-sha

Satte, Meiji’s visit to

Sawa Nobumoto (chamberlain)

scenery

schools: Meiji’s visits to; elementary; private; agricultural; organization of system for; Meiji’s gifts to

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah

Second Japan Socialist Party Congress

Security Police Law

seii taish
ō
gun
(great general and subduer of barbarians)

“Seikan no eki” (The Battle of Song-hwan; Meiji)

Seikan-t
ō
(political party)

Seiy
ū
kai (political party)

Self-Defense Unit (Korea)

Senate.
See
Genr
ō
-in

Sench
ū
hassaku
(Eight Proposals Composed Aboard Ship; Sakamoto)

Senny
ū
-ji (Shingon temple)

Seoul, Korea

seppuku
.
See also junshi

Setch
ū
bai
(Plum Blossoms in the Snow; Suchiro)

settlement houses

sett
ō
(ceremonial sword)

Shafuhen
(The Ricksha Man;
Ō
numa)

Shakai minsh
ū
-t
ō
(Social-Democratic Party)

Shantung Province, China

Shiba Shir
ō
(adviser to Miura)

Shiga Naoya

Shigeko, Princess (Umenomiya)

shih
ō
hai
(ceremony of worship of the four directions)

Shima Yoshitake (Saga samurai)

Shimada Ichir
ō

Shimada Sakon

Shimazu Hisamitsu (adviser to cabinet,
later
minister of the left): action of against rebels; K
ō
mei’s desire of support from; and Et
ō
; hostility of toward government; as spokesman for antiforeign partisans; attack on Sanj
ō
Sanetomi by; austerity plan of

Shimazu Mochihisa (daimyo of Satsuma)

Shimazu Nariakira (daimyo of Satsuma)

Shimazu Tadakuni

Shimazu Tadayoshi (daimyo of Satsuma)

Shimoda

Shimogamo Shrine

Shimo-ina district

Shimotsu Ky
ū
ya

Shimpo-t
ō
(political party)

Shinagawa Yajir
ō
(interior minister)

Shinohara Kunimoto

shinpei
(volunteer soldiers)

Shinp
ū
ren (Keishin-t
ō
, political party)

Shinsengumi (elite swordsmen)

Shinsh
ū
Band (anarchist group)

Shint
ō
: priesthood of; separation of from Buddhism; Meiji’s relationship with; proposal for government agency on; effects of revival of

Shintomi Theater

Shirakami Genjir
ō
(army private)

Shirakawa Sukenori (head of Office of Shint
ō
Worship)

Shishinden (Hall for State Ceremonies)

Shizuko, Princess

Sh
ō
Hitsu (Tai’s younger brother)

Sh
ō
In (Tai’s second son)

Sh
ō
Tai (king of Ry
ū
ky
ū
kingdom): on relations with Japan; audience of, with Meiji; and China; forced removal of; and abolition of Ry
ū
ky
ū
; illness of; in Yokohama; treatment of in exile