Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (215 page)

Sh
ō
Ten (crown prince of Ry
ū
ky
ū
kingdom)

Sh
ō
gitai (supporters of Tokugawa)

shogun (tycoon
taikun
): and emperor; as head of government.
See also
Minamoto Yoshinobu; shogunate; Tokugawa Hidetada; Tokugawa Iemitsu; Tokugawa Iemochi; Tokugawa Iesada; Tokugawa Ieyasu

shogunate: and nobility; response of, to Fillmore’s letter; and court; and opening of Japan; and Tokugawa Iemochi’s proposed marriage; and terrorists; response of, to Ikeda’s treaty; war of against Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; as central government; and Meiji’s marriage; France’s support of; and foreign trade; struggle for continued existence of; army of; n
ō
patronage by; income of.
See also
imperial rule

sh
ō
in
(executive branch of government)

Sh
ō
ken, Empress.
See
Ichij
ō
Haruko

Sh
ō
ki (Chung Kuei)

Sh
ō
ren’in-no-miya Son’yu.
See
Nakagawa, Prince

Sh
ō
s
ō
-in

Sh
ō
toku Prince

Shugaku-in (emperors’ hill resort)

silk

Sino-French War

Sino-Japanese War; precursors to; Yamagata on; first battle of; declaration of; first land engagement of; heroes of; woodblock prints of; and Meiji; move of imperial headquarters to Hiroshima during; attack on Pyongyang during; sea victories in; offer of mediation of from United States; massacre at Port Arthur during; negotiations for ending of; occupation of Hai-ch’eng during; attack on Chinese North Sea Fleet during; cease-fire during; peace treaty of; and Meiji’s rescript on peace with China; effects of

Six Classics

Six Great Imperial Tours (
roku dai junk
ō
)

Smiles, Samuel

Smith, Peshine

S
ō
Shigemasa

Social Revolutionary Party

socialism

Soejima Taneomi (foreign minister,
later
interior minister): on Motoda; and Russia; and
Maria Luz
case; mission of to China; as councillor; attempts at banishment of; Meiji’s decision on; lectures of; on treaty revision; as interior minister

Soga Sukenori (Yoshihito’s tutor)

S
ō
ka, Meiji’s stop at

S
ō
muda

Sone Aramaki (resident general, Korea)

Sone Arasuke

Song Pyong-jun (interpreter)

Song-hwan, battle of

songs

sonn
ō
j
ō
i
(respect the emperor and drive out the barbarians)

sonn
ō
j
ō
i
faction

Sono Motosachi

Sono Sachiko (Meiji’s favorite concubine); number of children of; Meiji’s attention to; birth of Michihito to; birth of Meiji’s sixth daughter to; birth of Nobuko to; travel to Hiroshima; birth of Toshiko to; at poetry gathering

Sonoda Yasukata (police official)

Son’yu, Prince.
See
Nakagawa Prince

S
ō
ry
ō
(Choryang) Wakan (trading station)

s
ō
shi
(unruly Japanese in Seoul)

sovereigns

Special Grand Army Maneuvers

Spencer, Herbert

spy network

St. Petersburg, Russia

state affairs.
See also
Meiji: political/governmental actions state employees (
yatoi
)

state funerals

statues

Stein, Lorenz von

Stevens, Durham W.

Stoessel, Anatolii Mikhailovich

Stonewall Jackson
(American ironclad)

strikes

Suehiro Tetch
ō
(author)

Suematsu Kench
ō
(representative to Britain)

Sugimura Fukashi

Sugiyama Shitemaru

Sukehito, Prince (Emperor Ky
ō
k
ō
)

Sumanomiya (K
ō
mei’s daughter)

Sumiko, Princess (Meiji’s aunt)

Sun Goddess

Sun Yat-sen

Sunjong (I Chok crown prince
later
, king of Korea): succession of; crowning of; letter of friendship to Meiji from; and hunting tour of Korean hinterland; gifts of, for imperial family; post-annexation treatment of; rescript of, on abdication; poisoning of; edict of on Yi Eun’s study in Japan

supreme court

Susquehanna
(Perry’s flagship)

sutra-reading minister.
See
Miura Gor
ō

Suzuki Shin’ichi (photographer)

swords

Tabaruzaka

Tadayasu Aiko (Meiji’s maternal grandmother)

Taehan.
See
Korea

Taft, William Howard

T’ai P’ing Rebellion

taikun
(tycoon).
See
shogun

Taish
ō
, Emperor.
See
Yoshihito, Prince

Taiwan: natives of; invasion of; Meiji’s actions on; China’s cession of; declaration of republic of; cost of possession of; earthquake on

Takachiho
(cruiser)

Takahira Kogor
ō
(minister to United States)

Takahito, Prince

Takakura Kazujo (senior court lady)

Takano, Meiji’s visit to

Takasaki Masakaze (poet); on Meiji’s poetry; reply of to Meiji’s poem; cautions Meiji; on Meiji’s assumption of personal rule; lectures on
Kokinsh
ū
by; and subjects for New Year’s poetry gatherings

Takashima Shigenori (lieutenant colonel)

Takashima Tomonosuke (chamberlain,
later
general): on Meiji’s drinking; on Meiji’s interest in Franco-Prussian War; on attack on Korean legation; on Japan’s and China’s response to the West; as army minister

Takashina Tsunenori (physician)

Takasugi Shinsaku (extremist)

Takatsuji Osanaga

Takatsukasa Masamichi (chancellor); at K
ō
mei’s
gembuku
; and United States; Manabe’s punishment of

Takatsukasa Sukehiro (chancellor)

Takechi Zuisan (patriot)

Takehito, Prince; as host to Czarevitch Nicholas; at funeral for dowager empress; on abolition of office of tutor; travel to Korea

Takezoe Shin’ichir
ō
(minister resident to Korea)

Takigawa Tomotaka (shogunate army commander)

Takiko, Princess (Meiji’s tenth daughter)

Takizawa Shigeru (reporter)

Taku, China

Tamamatsu Misao

Tanaka Akiro

Tanaka Fujimaro (education minister)

Tanaka Kawachinosuke (Nakayama family retainer)

Tanaka Mitsuaki (imperial household minister)

Tanaka Sh
ō
z
ō
(member of House of Representatives)

Taneda Masaaki (major general)

T’ang Ching-sung

Tani Tateki (Kenj
ō
, major general)

tanka
(poetic verse form)

FIRST LINES:
ama terasu
(How marvelous that; Nakayama Tadayasu);
asakaranu
(In appreciation; Takasaki);
hajime yori
(There is no flower; Reizei);
hana no haru
(I hope you will observe; Ichij
ō
Haruko);
kanashiku no
(Grief-stricken and yet; Nakayama Tadayasu);
karishi ho no
(When I see how few; daimyo of Owari);
kono hisago
(I will try drinking; Yamaguchi Masasada);
kono kimi no
(How must all the gods; Nakayama Tsunako);
koto shi araba
(If a crisis should come; Ichij
ō
Haruko);
kuni no kaze
(Even if stormy winds; K
ō
mei);
masurao no
(A warrior even; Et
ō
);
nami kaze no
(The lake of Arai; Iwakura Tomomi);
naniwazu ni
(At Naniwa Bay; ancient Naniwazu poem);
no ni yama ni
(In fields and mountains; Nogi Maresuke);
no-boru beki
(The child of the sun; Nakayama Tadayasu);
oki tsu nami
(The waves offshore are; Ichij
ō
Haruko);
oroka naru
(What a shameful thing; Shinagawa);
Satsuma-gata
(On Satsuma shores; Ichij
ō
Haruko);
Shafuhen
(The Ricksha Man;
Ō
numa);
ume yanagi
(As plums and willows; K
ō
ei);
watatsumi no
(As I count over; ancient poem);
yo wo omou
(There can be no doubt; K
ō
mei).
See also
poems

tanka Meiji’s: as documents of life of; first; K
ō
toku’s use of

FIRST LINES:
akebono ni
(In the light of dawn);
aki no yo no
(Not tired by the length);
ame no shita
(How delightful is);
atarashiki
(How happy I was);
azuma ni to
(As the ship hurries);
chiyo yorozu
(An indication);
fuji no ne ni
(The sky at the start);
fuku kaze ni
(Having been battered);
furusato no
(When I came and saw);
hageshiku mo
(I can hear the roar);
himugashi no
(Even the sky over);
kazu shirazu
(The sounds of gunfire);
kin
ō
ky
ō
(In the fierceness of);
kora wa mina
(All his sons have);
minahito no
(How good it would be);
miyako ni mo
(In the capital);
mononofu no
(At Tabaruzaka);
mononofu no
(Morning Sun Mountain);
mukashi yori
(In battles like these);
nami kaze no
(Not dismayed even);
natsu samuki
(It’s now long ago);
omou koto
(This year, too, when);
samidare no
(A day that is spent);
suminareshi
(How delightful to think);
susumiyuku
(It will do no good);
tachikaeru
(Blossoms of the plum);
takeuma ni
(I remember now);
tenarai wo
(How I regret now);
teru tsuki no
(The light of the moon);
tokoshie ni
(I pray to You that);
tsuki no wa no
(When I visited);
wa ga sono ni
(Here in my garden);
yo no takaku
(How loudly they sound);
yo wo osame
(If one governs the land);
yomo no umi
(In this world of ours);
yorozuyo ni
(What never changes)

SUBJECTS:
cherry blossoms; crane in pines; education; effects of war; four seas; governing; hardships endured by Japanese troops; journey in Koshi; K
ō
mei’s death; lives lost in military victories; moon; Mount Fuji; mountains at New Year; New Year; newspapers; pines on the rocks; pleasure on visiting Gosho; plum blossoms; Port Arthur; praying for the world; prosperity; spring breezes over the sea; storms; summer rain; Tabaruzaka; teachings from the past; time of problems; visit to K
ō
mei’s tomb; war; Western civilization; wild geese; writing at night

Tankai (priest)

Taoism

tariffs

Taruhito, Prince (Arisugawa Taruhito, minister of the left,
later
chief of the general staff); engagement of, to Kazunomiya; amnesty for; as supreme commander of imperial forces; Rinn
ō
jinomiya’s meetings with; and Sh
ō
gitai; return of imperial emblems by; as envoy to Kagoshima; as general of expedition to Kumanoto; and draft constitution; response of to
Ō
kuma’s parliamentary timetable; loss of self-confidence; at lunch with czarevitch; proposal of for moving imperial headquarters; death of

Tayama Katai (author)

tea

Tei Nagayasu (interpreter)

tench
ū
(divine punishment)

Tench
ū
-gumi (Divine Punishment Group)

Teng Yin-chao

Tenry
ū
-ji Village Meiji’s visit to

Terada-ya incident

Terajima Munenori (Matsuki K
ō
an)

Terasaki Yasukichi (medicine peddler)

Terashima Munenori (councillor
later
foreign minister,
later
education minister): at meeting on Sakhalin border problem; at meeting on campaign against native Taiwanese; message of, to Chinese government; as education minister; proposal of, for study of European constitutions; and Hoshi; on sale of Meiji’s photographs

Terauchi Masatake (army minister)

terrorism