Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (208 page)

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)