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Chapter XXII: Baron Eichi Shibusawa 315 (14)

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Buddhism, viii

Cabinet, first, 140;
changes, 45, 46

“Charter oath,” 46

Choshi, port, 97

Choshiu clan, 16, 17, 69, 76, 79, 173, 175

— defeated, 17

— victorious, 174

Clement, E. W., xv

Cocks, Captain, 68

Codes, civil and criminal, 44

Columbus, 9

Commodore Perry, 12

Constitution promulgated, 135

Coronation oath, 21

Council, first, 28

— of Local Governors, 45

— Privy, 140

_Coup d’état_ at Kioto (1868), 28, 83

Crown Prince, 49

Dai-jo-dai-jin, 27

Dakiu (polo), 94

Decree on accession, imperial, 50

Degrees of nobility, 139

Deliberative assembly promised, 21

Deshima, 68

Diet, the, 45, 135

Douglas, Admiral, 314

Douglas, Sir R. K., xv

Drill, foreign, 17

Dual control, 19

Dyer, Professor Henry, 133

Early visitors to Japan, vi

East India Company, 68

_Eclipse_ of Boston, vi

Embassy under Prince Iwakura, 128, 131

Emperor, personal name, 1;
portrait (_frontispiece_);
address to army and navy, 51;
menage, 51;
decree on accession, 50;
grants Constitution, 44;
at Hiroshima, 48;
diligence, 51;
sympathy, 52;
Commander-in-chief, 52;
education, 20;
equestrianism, 20;
poetry, 21, 52;
coronation, 33;
coif, 34, 36;
first public appearance, 35;
costume, 36;
opens railway, 36;
marriage, 34;
magnanimity, 22, 25, 43;
message to Diet, 47;
reviews fleet, 311

Emperor Komei, 1, 4, 75, 80

— Ninko, 4, 103, 114

_Emperor_ yacht, 30, 89

Empress Haruko, 1;
marriage, 34;
travels to Yedo, 34;
first sees foreigners, 35;
supports Red Cross Society, 48

Enomoto, Admiral Viscount, 87;
portrait, 299;
aboard _Kaiyo Maru_, 300;
Hakodate, 301;
fight at Hakodate, 303;
head of Colonisation Department, 304;
makes treaty with Russia, 304;
in Cabinet, 304

“Eta,” 66

Etajima naval college, 312

Etiquette at Shogun’s Court, 95

Expenditures reduced, 47

Expulsion of foreigners, 19, 65, 69, 77

Fillmore, President, 12

Fire at palace, 38

Foreign drill, 17

Formosa expedition, 39, 40

French graves at Moji, 123, 172

Fudai rank, 62

Fujita Toko, 97, 99, 100

_Fujiyama_ steamer, 30

Fuki-age gardens, 34

Fushimi, battle, 3, 31, 62, 86, 87

Fukusawa, Yukichi, portrait, 268;
founds _Jiji Shimpo_, 268;
at Teppodzu, 269;
teaches Dutch, learns English, 269;
sails for America, 270;
for Britain, 270;
influence, 271;
establishes his famous college, 271

Gates, nine, of Kioto, 25

Geisha, origin of, 55

Geishiu province, 26

Gen-ro-in Assembly, 45

Gessho, priest, 205

Giyobukiyo, Prince Keiki as, 82

Glover & Company, 120

Golownin visits Japan, vi

Go-ro-ju Assembly, 94

Goto, Shojiro, Count, 28, 32, 195;
consulted by Shogun, 195;
carries prince’s letter to him, 196;
adviser to new Government, 197;
defends Sir Harry Parkes, 198;
sword from Queen Victoria, 200;
active in field, 200;
Cabinet with Sanjo, 200;
visits Europe with Itagaki, 201;
portrait, 195

Graves of French sailors, 123, 172

Gregorian calendar adopted, 36

Hachiman temple, 54

Hagi, 16, 120

Hakodate, 13, 26

Hama-go-ten palace, 35, 37

“Hans’” liabilities, 285

Harris, Mr Townsend, 13

Haruko, Empress, 1, 34, 35, 48

_Hatamoto_ and _Hatamochi_, 66

Hayashi, Jussai, 102

Hayashi, Viscount Tadasu, xiv, 81, 125, 131, 187, 272

Hearn, Lafcadio, xv

Heiki, Tatewaki, 32

Hemi village, 68

Hibiya parade ground, 38

Hidetada, Shogun, 58, 64, 67

Hideyoshi, Shogun, 15, 58, 64

Higashi Fushimi-no-miya, 86

Higashi Kuze, Baron, 91

Hikoné, 74

“Hi-nin,” 66

Hiogo, 14

Hirado, 65, 67, 68

Hirosé, Commander, 311

Hiroshima, 2

Hitotsubashi, Shogun (see under S)

Hiuga, old shrine in, 203

Hizen, 25, 69

Hokkaido, 15

Hostility to strangers, 19, 71

Hotoké-Iwa, 64

Ibaraki Ken, 97

Idzu promontory, 13

Ii-dani in Totomi, 74

Ii Kamon-no-Kami, 63, 70-74, 98, 189, 204

Imai, S., xv

Imperial decree, 24

“Imperial message,” the, 51

Imperial oath, 146

Industrial progress, 43

Inland Sea, 9

Inouye, Count Kaoru, ix, 28, 70, 121;
military service, 170;
on _Barrosa_, 171;
at Shimonoseki, 173;
arranges loan, 175;
finance, 176, 178;
foreign minister, 179;
treaty revision, 179, 180;
lord-in-waiting, 181;
influence, 183;
portrait, 170

Interpreters, vii

Inuboye, Cape, 97

Itagaki, Count Taisuke, 28;
portrait, 279;
commands division, 279;
Sangi, 280;
organises Jiyuto, 281;
urges grant Constitution, 281;
wounded, 282;
in Europe, 282;
joins Okuma, 282

Ito, Marquis Hirobumi, 28, 32, 45, 119, 121, 125, 129, 144, 147,
148, 150, 151, 153;
portrait, 119

Iwakura, Prince, 21, 28, 35, 128, 131, 152-162;
portrait, 152

Iwami province, 9

Iwasaki, Baron, 139

Iyemochi, Shogun, 15, 16, 18, 53, 71, 79

Iyesada, Shogun, 15, 53, 69, 71

Iyeyasu, Shogun, 12, 16, 58, 63, 67, 95

Iyeyoshi, Shogun, 70

Izanagi and Izanami myth, 11

Jamisen, 56

Jardine Matheson & Company, 120

Jimmu Tenno, 9, 10, 202-203

Jiyuto party, ix, 69, 71

Jo-I party, ix, 69, 71

Junks sail far, 68

Kagoshima, xi, 15, 31, 23, 42, 43, 78

Kai-koku, 69

_Kaiyo Maru_ frigate, 30, 31, 89, 299

Kamakura, 54

Kanagawa, 108

Kanin, 3, 48

Kasumi-ga-ura, 97

Kato Takaaki, Mr., 144

Katsu, Awa-no-kami, Count, 29

Katsura, General, 3, 144

Kawaguchi, 87

Kawamura, Admiral, 43

Kazu, Princess, 75

Keiki, Prince Tokugawa, 18, 23, 53, 81, 85

_Kiang-Su_, 30

Kido, Marquis Koin, 28, 99, 273-278

Kioto, 10, 14, 31, 43

Kiri-shima-yama, 203

Kishiu, 59

Kita Shirakawa, Prince, 7, 49

Knighthood of Japan, 66

Kobé, 14, 78, 125

Komatsu of Satsuma, 28

Komatsu, Prince, 49

Komei, Emperor, 1, 4, 14, 16, 19, 75, 80

“Ko-mon,” 62

Konoye, Emperor, 54

Kublai Khan invades Japan, 55

Korea, 41

_Kowshing_, 307

Kubota Sentaro, 80

Kuge, Court nobles, 21

Kujo, Prince, 1

Kumagé, in Choshiu, 119

Kunozan, Mount, 63

Kuper, Admiral, 23, 78

Kuroda family, 59

— Count, 141

Lancashire Fusiliers, 81

Liao-tung, convention, 142

— evacuation, 143

Lighthouses, 133

Li Hung Chang, 142

London police, 87

Loo-Choo isles, 56

_Lotus_ steamer, 30

Maizuru, 308

Manchuria, 2

Marco Polo, 3, 8

Massacre at Sakai, 31, 32

— of Christians, 65

Matsudaira, 58, 59

Matsukata, Count, xv, 284-297

Matsushiro, 101

Matsushita, 114

Mexico, junks sail to, 68

Mendez, Pinto, 9, 58

Mikado, title explained, 2

Mikawa, 58

Minamoto, 54, 58

Mint established, 285

Mitford (Lord Redesdale), 16, 80

Mito clan, Mito town, 53, 59, 60, 71, 81, 97

Mori, Baron, xii, 16, 17, 75, 114, 122, 173, 275

Mutsuhito, Emperor, xiii, 1, 18, 22, 24, 25, 33, 34, 92

Nafa, 56

Nagasaki, 13

Nakai Kozo, 32

Naosuke, Ii Kamon-no-kami, 70

Nariaki, Prince of Mito, 71, 81, 98

National Assembly decreed, 45

Nijo Castle, Kioto, 28, 95

Nikko shrines, 58, 63, 95

Ninko, Emperor, 4, 103, 114

Ninnaji-no-miya, 86, 92

Oiso, 151

Okubo, Viscount, 28, 75, 184-194

Okuma, Count, xiv, 28, 246-254

Oriental Banking Corporation, 175

Osaka, 24

_Osaka Mainichi Shimbun_, xv

Otori Keisuke, Baron, 27, 33

Owari, 59

Oyama, Marquis, 255-267

Parkes, Sir Harry, 16, 22, 31, 80, 87, 91

Peace treaties, 142

Personal name of Emperor, 1

_Phaeton_ cruiser, vi

Pinto, Mendez, 9, 58

Polo (dakiu), 20, 94

Port Arthur, 143, 309-311

Ports closed, 65

Portuguese, arrival of, 57, 67

Prince Higashi Fushimi, 48, 86

— Komatsu, 49

— Kita Shirakawa, 7, 49

— Kujo, 1

— Sanjo Sanetomi, 21, 28, 163-169

— Shimadzu Saburo, 15, 22, 28

— Yoshi-hito, 1, 49

Princess Sadako, 1

— Kazu, 75

Privy Council, 141

Public Works Department, 133

Railway, first opened, 47

Ranks of Samurai, 66

Rebellion in Satsuma, 42

Redesdale, Lord, 16, 80

Reed, Sir E., xvi

Regent (Tairo), 70

Religions, 57

Resanoff, vi

Revenues of barons, 60, 61

Rice, State trade in, 290

Richardson killed, ix, x

Roches, M., 31

Rome, Church of, 58

“Ro-nins,” 70

Russia and Liao-tung, 143

Sa-dai-jin, 28, 39

Sadako, Crown Princess, 1

Saga insurrection, 41

Saigo, Marshal Takamori, 25, 28, 42, 66, 75, 86, 99, 202-217

— Marquis, 39

Sa-in, 44

Saitama Ken, 316

Sakai massacre, 31, 32

Sakuma Shozan, v, 12, 101-115

Sakurada gate, 70

Samurai principles, 66

Sanjo Sanetomi, Prince, 21, 35, 163-169

Saris, Captain John, vi, 67

Sato Issai, 102

Satow, Sir Ernest, 16, 31, 80

Satsuma, clansmen, 22, 39, 41, 69

— rebellion, 42, 66, 78, 79

— allied with Choshiu, 69

_Scotland_ sunk, 30

Sei-yu-kai, 145, 283

Sekku festivals, 73

Senate, 44

Shantung, 2

Shibusawa, Baron, 315-324

Shidzuoka, 24, 67, 92, 93

Shikishima, 5

Shimabara, 65

Shimadzu Saburo, Prince, 15, 22, 28, 39, 75, 207

Shimidzu, 64

Shimoda, 13, 108

Shimonoseki, x, 76, 123

Shin-Cho-gumi, 90

Shinnō, 3

Shintoism, viii, 6, 7

Shogun, Tokugawa Keiki, 12, 18, 22, 25, 28, 31, 54, 71, 75, 82, 85,
88, 90, 93, 94, 95

Shogunate Embassy, 78

— troops, 81

Sho-in, 44

Shrines, 8

Siebold, Von, vi

Silk culture, 316

Suruga, 24, 92, 93

Suyematsu, Baron, xv, 144

Tairo (Regent), 70

Takachiho peak, sword on, 202

Takanawa Legation, 70

Takasugi, 119

Tayasu house, 93

Telegraphs established, 38

Temmacho prison, 118

Tempo-san, 30, 87

Tenno, 1, 5

— Jimmu, 9

Ten-shi, 1

Throne, attachment to, 6

Togo, Admiral Heihachi, 306-314

Tokugawa, Prince Keiki, vi, 16, 18, 53, 60, 76, 77

— Prince Iyesato, 24, 93

Toné river, 97

Tosa, 25, 69, 82, 110

To-sama, 62

Treaty, British, 14

— Elgin, 14

— first, 13

Treaties disliked, 19

Tsu deserters, 63, 87

Tsuboi Shindo, 102

Tsugaru straits, 25

Tsukiji, 35

Tsurumi murder, x, 77

“Tycoon,” 24, 53, 92, 95, 103

U-dai-jin, 28

Uraga, 11, 70, 116

Utsunomiya, 33

Uyeno, 43, 92

Victoria, Queen, decorates Goto and Nakai, 32

Wakamatsu, 26

Wakayama, 60

Watanabe Kazan, 102

“What will Japan do?” xv

Willis, Dr., 31, 88

_Worcester_, H.M.S., Togo in, 307

Xavier, Francisco, 9

Yamagata, Marshal Marquis, 18, 29, 76, 219-245

Yamamoto, Admiral, 144

Yamao Yozo, Viscount, 119

Yamato, 9

Yanagawa Seigan, 102

Yashikis, 54, 59, 79

Yedo, 14, 29, 69, 80, 94

_Yeddo_ steamer explodes, 37

Yenomoto, Admiral. See Enomoto

Yeso, 15, 27

Yeto Shimpei, 41

Yodo, Prince of Tosa, 83

— river, 86

Yokohama, 14

Yoritomo, Shogun, 54

Yoshida Torajiro, v, 12, 114, 117

Yoshi-hito, Crown Prince, 1

Yoshinobu Hitotsubashi. See Shogun

“Zipangu,” 67

Zozoji temple, 64

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