Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (211 page)

Kimpish
ō
(study of court practices)

Kimura Teinosuke

Kinch
ū
narabi ni kuge shohatto
(Regulations for the Imperial Palace and Nobility)

Kinoshita Naoe (socialist)

Kirino Toshiaki

Kitabatake Chikafusa

Kitashirakawa Fusako.
See
Fusako Princess

Kitashirakawanomiya.
See
Yoshihisa Prince

Kito Takayoshi

Kiyohara Arikata

Kiyoura Keigo (justice minister)

k
ō
(filial piety)

k
ō
bu gattai
(union of aristocracy and military)

Koch, Robert (German scientist)

K
ō
chi, as center of Freedom and Popular Rights movement

Koga Takemichi

K
ō
gen, Prince.
See
Yoshihisa Prince

Kojima Korekata (chief justice of supreme court)

Kojong (king
later
emperor of Korea):and modernization of Korea; and Meiji; apology of for December incident; and assassination of Kim Ok-kyun; rescript of on need for reform; and Japan; extravagance of; and Pak Yong-hyo; violence against; as virtual prisoner; return of to palace; dismissal of pro-Japanese cabinet by; on proposed treaty of protection; forced abdication of; and It
ō
treatment of after annexation.
See also
Korea; Min

Koj
ō
-san

K
ō
kaku, Emperor

Kokovtsev, V.N. (finance minister, Russia)

Kokumin d
ō
meikai (People’s Alliance)

Kokura Fourteenth Regiment

Kokury
ū
kai (Amur River Society)

kokusui
(genius of the nation)

Komatsu, Prince

Komatsu Tatewaki

K
ō
mei (Meiji’s father): correspondence, of; portraits of; birth of; as youth; investiture of as crown prince; initiation of into manhood; xenophobia of; early years of as emperor; children of; and shogunate; Hotta’s mission to; threats of abdication by; and Great Purge of the Ansei era; and Kazunomiya’s marriage; visit of to Kamo Shrines; observation of military drill by; on country’s condition; and Iemochi; on dealing with foreigners; and Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; sedentary life of; on foreign treaties; response of to nobles’ requests; final illness and death of; burial of; observance of first anniversary of death of; An Chung-gun on death of; possible poisoner of

K
ō
mei, and Meiji: at Meiji’s first reading ceremony; response of to Meiji’s birth; Meiji’s visit to; concern of over Meiji’s health; fondness of for Meiji; celebration of Boy’s Day; Meiji’s poem modification of; concern of over Meiji’s education; appearance of as ghost

Komura Jutar
ō
(chargé d’affaires in Pe-king,
later
foreign minister); and Korea; on Russian demands on China; and Russia; revelation of Japanese plans to Roosevelt by; on Anglo-Japanese Alliance; on An Chung-gun’s crime

Kond
ō
Isam

Kond
ō
Yoshiki

Kong
ō
bu-ji (Buddist temple)

kono hana
(these flowers, K
ō
mei’s pseudonym)

K
ō
no Hironaka

K
ō
no Togama

Konoe Atsumaro (principal of Gakush
ū
-in,
later
president of House of Peers)

Konoe Tadafusa (acting major counselor)

Konoe Tadahiro (minister of the center
later
minister of the left): and K
ō
mei; as chancellor; Manabe’s punishment of; on Kazunomiya’s marriage; and Satsuma domain; and Meiji’s marriage

Korea (
later
Ch
ō
sen): and shogunate; relations with Japan; relations with China; and Japan’s Westernization; possible war with; and Kanghwa Island incident; negotiations with; soldiers’ uprising in; inevitability of war with; financial difficulties of; political parties in; progressives in; plan for coup d’état in; Japanese troops in; revenge against Kim Ok-kyun in; Ton-ghak rebellion in; affirmation of as independent country; Japan’s plans for; pro-Russian faction at court of; assassination of Queen Min in; and Russia; Russian–Japanese agreement on; Japan’s destruction of independence of; It
ō
’s mission to; banking in; response of to Japan’s treaty of protection; violence against Japanese in; Japan’s annexation of; Christianity in; people’s closeness to Japanese; origins of hatred of Japan in; on legitimacy of Meiji’s government.
See also
cabinet (Korea); Kojong; Min; Sunjong; Ton-ghak

Koreetz
(Russian gunboat)

K
ō
ten k
ō
ky
ū
-sho (school)

Kotohito, Prince

K
ō
toku Sh
ū
sui (journalist, Meiji’swould-be assassin)

kowtowing

Koyama Toyotar
ō

Kuang-hsü (Chinese reign-name)

Kuang-hsü (emperor of China)

Kuga Yoshinao (leader of Ch
ū
koku-sha)

Kuj
ō
Asako (K
ō
mei’s consort)

Kuj
ō
Hisatada (minister of the right,
later
chancellor)

Kuj
ō
Michitaka

Kuj
ō
Michizane

Kuj
ō
Sadako (Yoshihito’s bride)

Kuki Takayoshi (governor of Mito domain)

Kumamoto

Kumamoto Band

Kumamoto Castle

Kume Kunitake

Kung, Prince

Kunitomo Shigeakira

Kurihama

Kurihara Sadakichi (prison warden)

Kurile Islands

Kurino Shin’ichiro (minister to Russia)

Kuroda Kiyotaka (army general,
later
director of Hokkaid
ō
Development Office); and defeat of Enomoto; memorandum of on Sakhalin; and envoy to Korea; and Hokkaid
ō
uprising; and rebel forces; Shimada on; and Soejima; on financial crisis; and land-sale scandal; and Meiji; tour of China by; character of; refusal of minister of the right position; and treaty revision; as agriculture and commerce minister; on
Ō
kuma as foreign minister; and constitution; as communications minister; as provisional prime minister; on Matsuzaka’s tactics; and formation of new cabinet

Kuroda Nagahiro (daimyo of Fukuoka)

Kuroiwa Ruik
ō
(journalist)

Kuropatkin, Alexis Nikolaevich (war minister, Russia)

Kusumoto Masataka (vice president of House of Representatives)

Kuwana, Meiji’s visit to

Ky
ō
k
ō
, Emperor (Prince Sukehito)

Ky
ō
to: earthquake in; reinforcement of guards in; destruction of during Ch
ō
sh
ū
rebellion; disorders in; opening of to foreigners; Meiji’s gifts to residents of; Meiji’s visit to; Iwakura’s plans for palace and grounds in; Czarevitch Nicholas’s visit to; Meiji’s love for; Meiji’s desire for preservation of

Ky
ō
to language Meiji’s use of

labor unions

Ladd, George

Lamsdorf, Vladimir Nikolaevich (foreign minister Russia)

land: taxes on; end of prohibition on selling

land-sale scandal

Lanman, Charles

Lansdowne, Henry (foreign minister, Britain)

law: constitutional; international; mercantile; doctors of; martial

Law of Election of Members of the House of Representatives

laws

League for Establishing a National Assembly

league of Asian nations, proposed

lectures, for New Year

legal system, reform of

legations, in China

LeGendre, Charles W. (general United States)

legislators, lack of training in parliamentary procedures

legislature.
See also
Diet; House of Peers; House of Representatives

Leo XIII (pope)

Li Ching-fang (Hung-chang’s son)

Li Hung-chang (viceroy of Chihli Province): and Soejima; and Grant; and Korea; It
ō
’s negotiations with; and Kim Ok-kyun’s assassination; and Russia; desire of for peace with Japan; and negotiations to end Sino-Japanese War; attack on

Liaotung Peninsula

liberal parties

liberal thought

Liliuokalani (queen of Hawaii)

“Limitations of Government, The”(Hoshi)

literature

Liu K’un-i (commanding general, China)

Lobanov-Rostovskii (foreign minister, Russia)

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Longford, Joseph H.

Loti, Pierre

Louis XIV (king of France)

Louise Marguérite (Queen Victoria’s daughter-in-law)

Lowell, John Russell

Lowther, Claude (Member of Parliament)

Lytton, Lord

MacDonald, Claude M. (British minister to Japan)

Mac-Mahon, Patrice de (president of France)

Madagascar

Madenok
ō
ji Hirofusa (acting imperial household minister)

Maebara Issei

Maebashi

Maeda Nariyasu (daimyo of Kaga)

Maejima Hisoka

Makino Nobuaki (minister to Austria)

Manabe Akikatsu (senior councillor)

Manchu dynasty (China)

Manchuria.
See also
Russo-Japanese War

Maria Luz
, case of

martial law

Marugame, Meiji’s visit to

Maruki Toshiaki (photographer)

Masako (Prince Nashinomoto’s oldest daughter)

Masako, Princess (Meiji’s sixth daughter)

Mason R. H. P.

Masuda Sentar
ō
(army private)

Masuda Tar
ō
(kabuki author)

Matsuda Masahisa (politician)

Matsuda Michiyuki (Interior Ministry chief secretary)

Matsudaira Katamori (daimyo of Aizu
later
Ky
ō
to deputy)

Matsudaira Sadanori

Matsudaira Yoshinaga (daimyo of Echizen)

Matsukata Masayoshi (finance minister,
later
prime minister); on Article of criminal code; and appointment of new interior minister; on war with China; concern of over Meiji’s lack of male heirs; as finance minister; as prime minister; and cabinet; mission of to It
ō
and revenue bill; as member of Privy Council

Matsumae Takahiro (member of Council of Elders)

Matsumoto Takeichir
ō

Matsumura Akitar
ō

Matsushima
(Japanese flagship)

Matsuzaki Naoomi (captain)

May Day celebrations

medicine

Meiji (Sachinomiya [given name], Mutsuhito [adult name])

APPEARANCE:
Mitford’s descriptions of; Satow’s description of; Yokoi’s description of; non-visibility of face of; Young’s descriptions of; beard of; Prince Albert Victor and Prince George’s description of; weight of; Makino Nobuaki’s description of; height of

CEREMONIES AND RITUALS:
accession of as emperor; first reading; Boy’s Day; birthday celebrations of; first wearing of colored clothes by;
himo naoshi
(
himo-toki
adult sash);
fukasogi
(hair-trimming); naming of as crown prince; marriage of;
gembuku
(initiation into manhood); accompanying pronouncement of Charter Oath; coronation of; as part of general duties; awards and honors; public presentation of constitution; opening of Diet; loss of interest in performance of; New Year first poetry reading; funeral of

CHARACTERISTICS:
decision making; stubbornness; dislike of study; impulsiveness; harshness; Iwakura Tomomi on; passion of for horseback riding; shyness; largesse; spontaneity; bi-bulosity; sense of duty; simplicity; frugality; diligence; retentive memory; sangfroid; adherence to duties; combination of East and West; concern for his people; immobility at audiences; firmness; compassion; self-examination; interest of in Japanese history and ancestors; sovereignly virtue; aversion to doctors; responsibility; sense of own authority; stoicism; self-confidence; conservatism; boredom with official ceremonies; indifference to surroundings; determination; seeming coldness as father; indifference to petty concerns; devotion to work; temper; sense of humor; dislike of receiving foreign guests; ability to judge character; sadism; intellectual interests; dislike of excessive fondness for Western things