Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (210 page)

Imperial Way (
k
ō
d
ō
)

Imperialism, the Monster of the Twentieth Century
(K
ō
toku)

India

indigents, free medical care for

industrial exhibitions

industrial pollution

industrial progress

inflation

Inland Sea

Inoue Kaoru (councillor,
later
foreign minister,
later
interior minister): on Christianity; on Ry
ū
ky
ū
; protocol changes suggested by; on Kalakaua’s visit; Meiji on; and plot against Jiy
ū
-t
ō
; and treaty revisions; on attack on Seoul legation; and Korea; and visiting legal scholars; on adoption of Western customs; resignation of, as foreign minister; as foreign minister; and Tani; as interior minister; and assassination plot against Kim Ok-kyun; It
ō
on; and mission to It
ō
; and revenue bill; on alliance with Britain; at meeting on negotiations with Russia; on height of Meiji’s throne; on emigration to Hawaii; reward to, for successful China negotiations

Inoue Kenkichi (engineer lieutenant)

Inoue Kiyonao (Shimoda magistrate)

Inoue Kowashi (cabinet librarian); and treaty revision; and draft constitution; and draft rescript on education; on Meiji’s importance to government stability

Inoue Sueko (Kaoru’s daughter)

Inoue Takeko (Kaoru’s wife)

Institute for the Investigation of Barbarian Books

international law

international relations.
See
foreign affairs

Inukai Tsuyoshi (education minister)

“Ippeisotsu” (One Soldier; Tayama)

Ise Shrine

Ishikawa Sanshir
ō

Ishikawa Takuboku (poet)

Itagaki Taisuke (interior minister): resignation of; followers’ attack on Iwakura; as founder of Risshi-sha; and founding of Aikoku-sha; attack on; It
ō
’s meeting with; in Europe; on It
ō
’s cabinet appointments; as possible cabinet member; on union of Jiy
ū
-t
ō
and Shimpo-t
ō
; and cabinet crisis of 1898; and
Ō
kuma; and Ozaki’s dismissal; eulogy of, for Hoshi; doctors’ refusal to treat

Itakura Katsukiyo (councillor)

Italy

It
ō
Hirobumi (interior minister,
later
imperial household minister,
later
prime minister); at meeting on Sakhalin border problem; proposal of, for missions to West; at n
ō
performance; on Kagoshima situation; at strategy meetings; Shimada on; and education bill; on Meiji’s role in government; on rice payments; and constitution; and
Ō
kuma; Meiji’s trust in; on Meiji’s future role; on Satsuma domain; on palace advisers; power of; and plot against Jiy
ū
-t
ō
; constitutional learning of; and treaty revision; Meiji’s refusal to meet with; costume ball staged by; and China; on Kuroda as minister of the right; plans of, to change form of government; opposition to policies of; and Tani; as proponent of Privy Council; mission of, to Russian minister; and election of; emergence of, from retirement; and appropriations cuts; and Korea; proposal of, for moving imperial headquarters; and Sino-Japanese War; formation of new cabinet by; Meiji’s desire to reappoint as prime minister; report of, on political situation; plans of, for own political party; and cabinet crisis of 1898; and revenue bill; and judges’ resignations; at meeting on negotiations with Russia; Meiji’s recognition of; and Korean and Japanese crown princes; Sunjong’s praise of; Meiji’s rescript of praise for; assassination of; An Chung-gun’s hatred of; Meiji’s reaction to death of; on possible Russian intervention in Korea; K
ō
toku’s hatred of

PUBLIC OFFICES:
interior minister; resignation of, as president of House of Councillors; prime minister; resignation of, as imperial household minister; president of House of Peers; first resident general in Korea; governor general of Korea

VIEWS:
on difficulties of being crown prince; on Ry
ū
ky
ū
; on Soejima; on constitutional government; on
Essays on Japanese Morality
; on
Ō
kuma as foreign minister; on role of Diet; on proposal for Shint
ō
agency; on Motoda; on treaty with Britain; on relations with Russia; on Yoshihito’s education; on Russia’s refusal to leave Manchuria; on Korea; on Meiji

It
ō
H
ō
sei (physician)

It
ō
Miyoji

It
ō
Sukeyuki (vice admiral,
later
admiral)

It
ō
Umeko (Hirobumi’s wife)

Iwakura mission

Iwakura Tomomi (nobleman,
later
assistant president,
later daj
ō
daijin
); poverty of; punishment of; Nakayama Tadamitsu’s plan to kill; admonition of, to K
ō
mei; and restoration of imperial rule; as possible poisoner of K
ō
mei; and Parkes; pardon for; release of, from house arrest; at meeting on government reform; and Meiji; at Charter Oath ceremonies; and Enomoto’s revolt; visit of, to British legation; as major counselor; report of, on establishment of prefectures; as leader of mission to Europe and United States; as leader of anti–Korean war faction; as prime minister; attack on; Et
ō
’s letter to; report of, on Shinp
ū
ren revolt; Shimada on; description of; and revival of n
ō
; proposal of, for solving financial crisis; and constitution; and
Ō
kuma’s parliamentary timetable; importance of; and palace restoration; final illness and death of; Meiji’s eulogy for

VIEWS:
on Meiji’s character; on Kazunomiya’s marriage; on barriers to imperial restoration; on Meiji’s approval of edict against To-shinobu; on Meiji’s meeting foreign ministers; on coronation traditions; on Meiji’s visit to T
ō
ky
ō
; on controlling savage ways; on location of capital; on duke of Edinburgh’s visit; on treaty negotiations; on changes to Japan; on Japan’s weakness; on Meiji’s powers of judgment; on relations with China; on all-powerful emperors; on relations with foreigners; on response to Kagoshima disturbance; on Japan’s educational policies; on foreign loan; on increasing armaments

Iwakura Tomosada (chamberlain); on Ozaki’s resignation; Konoe’s meeting with

Iwakura Tomotsuna

Iwamura Takatoshi

Iwasa Jun

Iwasaki Yatar
ō

Iwase Tadanari (senior shogunate official)

Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine

Izumozaki, Meiji’s visit to

Janes, Leroy L.

Janes, Mrs. Leroy L.

Janson, Johannes Ludwig Japan: expulsion of foreign ships by; military capacity of; shogunate’s recognition of need for opening of; policy of closure of; northern region of; Meiji on future of; main exports of; modernization of; and China; foreign praise for; Meiji’s rescript on people’s deteriorating spirit in; aims of in annexing Korea; people’s closeness to Koreans; extent of empire of; people’s sorrow on Meiji’s death; interior of.
See also
Anglo-Japanese Alliance; foreign affairs; Korea; Russo-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War

Japan Weekly Mail
, on Meiji’s travels

“Japanese Democracy” (K
ō
toku)

jiho
(adviser)

Jimmu (emperor)

jin
(humaneness)

Jingei
(warship)

Jingikan (Ministry of Shint
ō
)

Jitsugaku-t
ō
(political party)

jitsugaku
(practical learning)

Jiy
ū
-t
ō
(Freedom Party): founding of; growth of; disbandment of; and Rik-ken kai shint
ō
It
ō
’s attempt to establish relations with; and election of; Hoshi as member of; K
ō
toku on loss of

j
ō
i
(expulsion of the barbarians).
See also sonn
ō
j
ō
i

judicial courts (Taishin-in)

judiciary

Junkoku Army

junshi
(suicide following one’s lord)

Kabayama Sukenori (rear admiral viscount)

kabuki

Kadenok
ō
ji Sukenari

Kaehwadang (Progressive Party, Toknip-dang [Independence Party], Korea)

Kagawa Keiz
ō

Kagoshima; army of

Kaika-t
ō
(political party)

Kaiulani (niece of king of Hawaii)

Kaiy
ō
maru
(shogunate warship)

Kaku
ō
in Gikan

Kalakaua (king of Hawaii)

Kamei Koreaki (photographer)

Kamei Koremi

kamiuta
(god-songs)

Kamo (ritual)

“Kanashimi no kiwami” (Extremity of Grief, funeral dirge)

Kanazawa, Meiji’s visit to

Kaneko Kentar
ō
(justice minister)

K’ang Hsi

K’ang Yu-wei (Confucian scholar)

Kanghwa Island

Kan’innomiya Sukehito, Prince (Emperor Ky
ō
k
ō
)

Kanno Suga (anarchist)

Kansai region

Kao-hsing
(British merchant ship)

Karahashi Ariteru (doctor of letters)

Karasumaru Mitsumasa (court spokesman)

Kasuga Shrine

Kataoka Toshikazu (chamberlain)

Katayama Sen (union activist)

Katayama T
ō
kuma (architect)

Kat
ō
Akizane (daimyo of Mizuguchi)

Kat
ō
Hiroyuki (Meiji’s German law tutor)

Kat
ō
Takaaki (foreign minister)

Kat
ō
Yoshikiyo

Katsu Kaish
ū

Katsura Tar
ō
(commanding general,
later
army minister): in Sino-Japanese War; on political crisis; and Ozaki scandal; desire of to resign; and cabinets; and treaty with Britain; and Russia; and Korea; report of on trial of Meiji’s would-be assassins; eulogy of for Meiji

Katsuranomiya family

Kawabata D
ō
ki

Kawaji Toshiakira (senior shogunate official)

Kawaji Toshiyoshi

Kawakami S
ō
roku (chief of general staff)

Kawamura Sumiyoshi (admiral)

Kawashima Reijir
ō
(military attaché)

Kawatake Mokuami (playwright)

Kayama Eizaemon (Uraga magistrate)

Kayanomiya.
See
Nakagawa Prince

Kazunomiya, Princess.
See
Chikako, Princess

Keij
ō
(Hansong Korea)

Kei
ō
(reign-name)

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

Kemmu Restoration

Kenkenroku
(record of Sino-Japanese War; Mutsu)

Kensei-t
ō
(Constitutional Government Party)

ketsuzei
(blood tax)

Kiaochow Bay, China

Kido Takayoshi (councillor): and Saig
ō
; on Christians; and Charter Oath; and Meiji; and shogunate rebelss; cutting of hair of; cerebral hemorrhage suffered by; at n
ō
performance; Meiji’s visit to; Meiji’s consulting with; at strategy meeting on Satsuma Rebellion; death of; as target of assassination plot; Shimada on; importance of to cabinet

VIEWS:
on imperial glory; on Meiji’s enjoyment of horsemanship; on Meiji’s drinking; on Et
ō
’s capture; on proposed Tai-wan expedition; on Kanghwa Island incident; on change; on Shinp
ū
ren revolt; on recent revolts; on reduction of land taxes; on ceremony for Meiji’s railway station visits; on Saig
ō
; on Korea’s response to restoration of imperial rule; on intervention in Korea; on Meiji’s visit to villa of; on Kagoshima samurai

Kigen-setsu (date of Jimmu’s coronation)

Kiguchi Kohei

Kijikata Hisamoto (imperial household minister)

Kikuchi Y
ō
sai

Kim Hong Chip (prime minister, Korea)

Kim Ok-kyun (Iwata Sh
ū
saku, Iwata Sanwa, Korean politician)

“Kimi shinitamau koto nakare” (Do Not Die, My Brother; Yosano Akiko)

“Kimigayo” (national anthem)