Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (216 page)

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Authors: Donald Keene

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Three Mountains of Yamato

Tientsin, China

Times
(of London)

Ting Ju-ch’ang (admiral)

Ting-yüan
(Chinese ironclad)

Toba, imperial victory at

T
ō
bu Emperor

T
ō
da Ch
ō
an (physician)

Toda Tadayuki

T
ō
d
ō
Takakiyo (heir of Tsu domain)

T
ō
g
ō
Heihachir
ō
(captain,
later
admiral)

“Tokoton’yare” (song; Shinagawa)

Tokudaiji Sanetsune (major counselor); appointment of; and Motoda; as member of Ministry of the Imperial Household; on Meiji’s West-ernized dress; abolition of office of; lack of world knowledge; on Meiji’s work habits; on concern over lack of male heirs; as Meiji’s emissary to Kuroda; and Ozaki’s dismissal; request of, to resign post; and Watanabe’s resignation; in Meiji’s funeral procession

Tokugawa Akitake (daimyo of Mito)

Tokugawa Hidetada (shogun)

Tokugawa Iemitsu (shogun)

Tokugawa Iemochi (shogun): gifts of, to K
ō
mei; engagement and marriage of to Kazunomiya; visit of to K
ō
mei; refusal of, to be K
ō
mei’s surrogate; in expeditionary force against Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; report of, on M
ō
ri Takachika; resignation of; death of

Tokugawa Iesada (shogun)

Tokugawa Iesato (Kamenosuke)

Tokugawa Ieyasu (shogun)

Tokugawa Kamenosuke (Iesato)

Tokugawa Nariaki (daimyo of Mito)

Tokugawa Yoshinobu (commander of palace defense,
later
shogun): on opening Japan; proposals of, for changes in court practices; on K
ō
mei’s planned trip; refusal of, to be K
ō
mei’s surrogate; steps of, to avoid hostilities with foreigners; on approval of foreign treaties; as commander of shogunate forces; as
seii taish
ō
gun
; relations with foreign diplomats; and arrests of Christians; imperial edict against; cession of power to court by; response of to proclamation of Restoration; and Parkes; seclusion of at temple; Rinn
ō
jinomiya’s intercession for; terms for submission of

Tokugawa period emperors’ lives during

Tokugawa Yoshikatsu (daimyo of Owari)

Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
See
Minamoto Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshiyori (lord of Edo Castle)

Tokutomi Roka (novelist)

Tokutomi Soh
ō
(journalist)

T
ō
ky
ō
(
formerly
Edo): Americans’ sounding of bay of; earthquake in; opening of; daimyos in, support for shogunate in; destruction of Satsuma residence in; as new name for Edo; Meiji’s visits to; trade center in; as functional capital; Hoshi’s role in municipal government of

T
ō
ky
ō
(
formerly
Edo) Castle

T
ō
ky
ō
University

T
ō
ky
ō
-Yokohama mainichi shimbun
(newspaper)

Tominok
ō
ji Hironao (nobleman)

Tominok
ō
ji Takanao (chamberlain)

Tonghak (religious group, Korea)

Tonghak rebellion

Torio Koyata (general)

Tosa Freedom Party

Toshiko, Princess (Meiji’s ninth daughter)

Toyama Masakazu

Toyama Mitsusuke (noble)

T
ō
yama Mitsuru

Toyooka Harusuke (painter)

trade.
See
foreign trade

trade treaties.
See
treaties

traditions: importance of; escaping in feminine disguise as; of warfare; at court; rejection of; and care of emperor’s children; and samurai; Meiji’s concern for preservation of; erosion of.
See also
ceremonies and rituals

Training Unit (Hullyon Togam, Korea)

Trans-Siberian Railway

treaties: with Russia; with United States; with Holland; with Britain; shogunate’s continued signing of; protests against; with France; on Sakhalin; with Austro-Hungarian Empire; with China; with Korea; on Ry
ū
ky
ū
’s sovereignty; on Korean annexation; of commerce.
See also
treaty revision

Treaty of Chemulp’o

Treaty of Kanagawa

Treaty of Shimoda

Treaty of Tientsin

treaty revision: question of; actions on; Meiji on; objections to concessions in;
Ō
kuma’s proposals for; and new constitution; opposition to; Aoki’s proposal for; House of Representatives’ action on

Treaty Revision Conference

Tsai Tse Prince

Tso Pao-Kuei

tsubogiri no goken
(sword of succession)

Tsuchimikado Hareo (yin-yang diviner)

Tsuda Sanz
ō
(would-be assassin of Czarevitch Nicholas)

Tsukiji (T
ō
ky
ō
), foreign concession in

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (artist)

Tsunehisa, Prince

Tsushima Islands

Tsushima Strait

Tsutsui Masanori (senior shogunate official)

Tuan Chün, Prince (father of crown prince of China)

tycoon.
See
shogun

Tz’u-hsi (empress dowager, China)

Tz
ū
zoku sangokushi
(account of warfare)

Ubukata Toshir
ō
(newspaper reporter)

Uchida Kuichi (photographer)

Uchida Ry
ō
hei

Uchida Sadatsuchi (consul to Korea)

Uchimura Kanz
ō

Uchiyama Gud
ō
(Buddhist priest)

Ueki Emori (political activist)

Ueno Park

Ugolini, Giuseppe (artist)

Ui Prince

u-in
(judicial branch of government)

ukei. See
yin-yang divination

Ukhotomskii, E. E. (Russian prince)

ukiyoe artists

ulsa ojok
(five bandits of)

Umayabara Muhon (commander)

Umberto (king of Italy)

Umewaka Minoru (performer)

United States: treaties with; shogunate’s mission to; on actions against Taiwan; educational methods in, Meiji on; offer of, to mediate with Korea; offer of, to mediate Sino-Japanese War; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; Hoshi as minister to; as ally of Japan; pro-Japanese sentiments in; intervention in European affairs by; as hypothetical enemy; K
ō
toku in; on Anglo-Japanese Alliance; on Japanese immigration; prospects for war with.
See also
Fillmore, Millard; Grant, Ulysses S.; Harris, Townsend; Hayes, Rutherford B.; Perry, Matthew Calbraith; Pierce, Franklin

universities

Uraga

Uramatsu Tarumitsu (Meiji’s playmate)

Urawa (Saitama Prefecture)

Ury
ū
Sotokichi (rear admiral)

Ussuri Railroad

vaccination

Variag
(Russian warship)

Verbeck, Guido F.

Vesuvius, Mount

Victoria (queen of England)

Villiers Frederic (
North American Review
correspondent)

violence: in September; against foreigners; during elections of; K
ō
toku’s belief in.
See also
revolts

virtues; Confucian; sovereignly

Vladimirovitch, Kiril

Wada Enjir
ō

Wade, Thomas (British minister to China)

Waeber, Carl (Russian minister to Korea)

Wakan.
See
S
ō
ry
ō
(Choryang) Wakan

Wakisaka Yasuori (Shogunate representative)

Waldersee, Alfred

Wang Feng-tsao (Chinese minister to Japan)

war.
See also
Korea; Russo-Japanese War; Sino-Japanese War

warmongering

warships

Watanabe Kunitake

Watson R. G. (acting British minister to Japan)

Way of the Warrior (
bud
ō
)

Weihaiwei

West: adoption of dress of; technological achievements of; culture of

Westernization

White Lotus (Chinese Buddhist sect)

White Peril

White Peril in the Far East, The
(Gulick)

“Why I Became a Socialist” (K
ō
toku)

Wilhelm (Hong Sok-ku priest)

Wilhelm I (king of Prussia)

Wilhelm II (kaiser of Germany): on troops’ actions in China; hatred of “Yellow Peril,” influence of, on Nicholas II; on destruction of Russian fleet; and Russo-Japanese War peace negotiations; despotism of

Willem II (king of Holland)

Winter Palace

Witte, Sergei (finance minister Russia): on Czarevitch Nicholas’s visit to Japan; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; on Korea; and Trans-Siberian Railway; travel to Far East; and viceroyalty of Far East; on Russian occupation of Manchuria; on Alekseev; and negotiations with Japan; haughtiness of

women
See also
court: ladies of

woodblock prints.
See nishikie

xenophobia: of K
ō
mei; persistence of; and treaty revision; of Tonghaks; of Boxers.
See also
foreigners

Yamada Akiyoshi (councillor,
later
justice minister)

Yamagata Aritomo (chief of general staff,
later
prime minister); travel to Shimonoseki; at n
ō
performance; and Kagoshima situation; strategy message to Sanj
ō
from; at strategy meeting; support of, for constitution and legislature; on advisability of constitutional government;
Gunjin kunkai
(Admonitions to Military Men); as interior minister; and cabinet; as general; intention of resigning, as prime minister; as justice minister; and Kim Ok-kyun; as commander of First Army in China; recall of; resignation of, as prime minister; and revenue bill; and Meiji’s fit of temper; as member of Privy Council; message of, to Stoessel; at meeting on negotiations with Russia; memorial of on rearmament; and choice of chief of general staff; Meiji’s rescript to, on Russia

VIEWS:
on war with China; on Meiji’s compassion; on state of armed forces; on armaments; on Korea; on lack of male heirs; on alliance with Russia

Yamaguchi Koken (socialist)

Yamaguchi Masasada (chief chamberlain)

Yamakawa Hitoshi

Yamakawa Michiko (court lady)

Yamamoto Gonnohy
ō
e (navy minister)

Yamaoka Tessh
ū

Yamashina Tokinaru (nobleman)

Yamashinanomiya.
See
Akira Prince

Yamashinanomiya Sadamaro

Yamashita Club (political party)

Yamauchi Y
ō
d
ō

Yamazaki Masakazu

Yanagihara Mitsunaru (court poet)

Yanagihara Naruko (Sawarabi no tsubone, Meiji’s concubine): birth of daughter to; characteristics of; birth of third child to; pregnancy of; birth of son to; visit of, to Yoshihito; attendance of, on Nakayama Yoshiko

Yanagihara Sakimitsu (embassy first secretary, minister to China)

Yano Fumio (editor)

Yasuoka Ry
ō
suke (prefectural governor)

Year and a Half, A
(Nakae)

Yeh Chih-chao (supreme commander, China)

Yellow Sea

Yen Hui (Gankai)

Yi Chae-wan

Yi Chun

Yi Eun (crown prince of Korea): as hostage in Japan; installation of, as crown prince; and Meiji; at New Year ceremony of congratulations; as Japanese army officer; marriage of; post-annexation title of; photographs of; return of, to Korea

Yi Ha-ung (
taewon’gun
of Korea): on opening of Korea to West; resumption of power by; kidnapping of, by China; abrogation of treaty with China by; and Okamoto; and Queen Min’s death

Yi Ha-yong

Yi Il-sik

Yi Kan, Prince (Gi Shinn
ō
)

Yi Kang

Yi Kyong-jik (imperial household minister, Korea)

Yi Sang-sol (vice prime minister, Korea)

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