by Donald Keene
Ikeda Yoshinori (daimyo of Aizu)
Ikeda-ya incident
Ikeuchi Daigaku (physician)
Ilchin-hoe (political party, Korea)
illiterates, voting by
Imadegawa Saneaya
imperial army. See army
imperial family: inbreeding in; children’s mortality rates in; children’s illnesses in; treatment of junior members of; observance of Shintō by; as axis of constitutional government; farewell to Meiji by; donations to temples by; lack of wealth of
imperial palace. See palace (imperial)
imperial portrait (goshin’ei)
imperial regalia
Imperial Rescript for Military Men
imperial rule, restoration of: Meiji’s contribution to; Kōmei’s opposition to; nobles’ plan for; Tadayasu on; disturbances over; Yōdō on; articles calling for; proclamation of; administrative problems after. See also shogunate
Imperial Way (kōdō)
Imperialism, the Monster of the Twentieth Century (Kōtoku)
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 Ryūkyū; protocol changes suggested by; on Kalakaua’s visit; Meiji on; and plot against Jiyū-tō; 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; Itō on; and mission to Itō; 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 Sanshirō
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; Itō’s meeting with; in Europe; on Itō’s cabinet appointments; as possible cabinet member; on union of Jiyū-tō and Shimpo-tō; and cabinet crisis of 1898; and Ōkuma; and Ozaki’s dismissal; eulogy of, for Hoshi; doctors’ refusal to treat
Itakura Katsukiyo (councillor)
Italy
Itō Hirobumi (interior minister, later imperial household minister, later prime minister); at meeting on Sakhalin border problem; proposal of, for missions to West; at nō performance; on Kagoshima situation; at strategy meetings; Shimada on; and education bill; on Meiji’s role in government; on rice payments; and constitution; and Ōkuma; Meiji’s trust in; on Meiji’s future role; on Satsuma domain; on palace advisers; power of; and plot against Jiyū-tō; 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; Kōtoku’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 Ryūkyū; on Soejima; on constitutional government; on Essays on Japanese Morality; on Ōkuma as foreign minister; on role of Diet; on proposal for Shintō 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
Itō Hōsei (physician)
Itō Miyoji
Itō Sukeyuki (vice admiral, later admiral)
Itō Umeko (Hirobumi’s wife)
Iwakura mission
Iwakura Tomomi (nobleman, later assistant president, later dajō daijin); poverty of; punishment of; Nakayama Tadamitsu’s plan to kill; admonition of, to Kōmei; and restoration of imperial rule; as possible poisoner of Kōmei; 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; Etō’s letter to; report of, on Shinpūren revolt; Shimada on; description of; and revival of nō; proposal of, for solving financial crisis; and constitution; and Ōkuma’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 Tōkyō; 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 Yatarō
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” (Kōtoku)
jiho (adviser)
Jimmu (emperor)
jin (humaneness)
Jingei (warship)
Jingikan (Ministry of Shintō)
Jitsugaku-tō (political party)
jitsugaku (practical learning)
Jiyū-tō (Freedom Party): founding of; growth of; disbandment of; and Rik-ken kai shintō Itō’s attempt to establish relations with; and election of; Hoshi as member of; Kōtoku on loss of
jōi (expulsion of the barbarians). See also sonnō jōi
judicial courts (Taishin-in)
judiciary
Junkoku Army
junshi (suicide following one’s lord)
Kabayama Sukenori (rear admiral viscount)
kabuki
Kadenokōji Sukenari
Kaehwadang (Progressive Party, Toknip-dang [Independence Party], Korea)
Kagawa Keizō
Kagoshima; army of
Kaika-tō (political party)
Kaiulani (niece of king of Hawaii)
Kaiyō maru (shogunate warship)
Kakuōin 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 Kentarō (justice minister)
K’ang Hsi
K’ang Yu-wei (Confucian scholar)
Kanghwa Island
Kan’innomiya Sukehito, Prince (Emperor Kyōkō)
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 Tōkuma (architect)
Katō Akizane (daimyo of Mizuguchi)
Katō Hiroyuki (Meiji’s German law tutor)
Katō Takaaki (foreign minister)
Katō Yoshikiyo
Katsu Kaishū
Katsura Tarō (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 Dōki
Kawaji Toshiakira (senior shogunate official)
Kawaji Toshiyoshi
Kawakami Sōroku (chief of general staff)
Kawamura Sumiyoshi (admiral)
Kawashima Reijirō (military attaché)
Kawatake Mokuami (playwright)
Kayama Eizaemon (Uraga magistrate)
Kayanomiya. See Nakagawa Prince
Kazunomiya, Princess. See Chikako, Princess
Keijō (Hansong Korea)
Keiō (reign-name)
Keishin-tō (Shinpūren, political party)
Kemmu Restoration
Kenkenroku (record of Sino-Japanese War; Mutsu)
Kensei-tō (Constitutional Government Party)
ketsuzei (blood tax)
Kiaochow Bay, China
Kido Takayoshi (councillor): and Saigō; on Christians; and Charter Oath; and Meiji; and shogunate rebelss; cutting of hair of; cerebral hemorrhage suffered by; at nō 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 Etō’s capture; on proposed Tai-wan expedition; on Kanghwa Island incident; on change; on Shinpūren revolt; on recent revolts; on reduction of land taxes; on ceremony for Meiji’s railway station visits; on Saigō; 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 Yōsai
Kim Hong Chip (prime minister, Korea)
Kim Ok-kyun (Iwata Shūsaku, Iwata Sanwa, Korean politician)
“Kimi shinitamau koto nakare” (Do Not Die, My Brother; Yosano Akiko)
“Kimigayo” (national anthem)
Kimpishō (study of court practices)
Kimura Teinosuke
Kinchū 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)
kō (filial piety)
kōbu gattai (union of aristocracy and military)
Koch, Robert (German scientist)
Kōchi, as center of Freedom and Popular Rights movement
Koga Takemichi
Kōgen, 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 Itō treatment of after annexation. See also Korea; Min
Kojō-san
Kōkaku, Emperor
Kokovtsev, V.N. (finance minister, Russia)
Kokumin dōmeikai (People’s Alliance)
Kokura Fourteenth Regiment
Kokuryūkai (Amur River Society)
kokusui (genius of the nation)
Komatsu, Prince
Komatsu Tatewaki
Kōmei (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 Chōshū 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
Kōmei, 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 Jutarō (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
Kondō Isam
Kondō Yoshiki
Kongōbu-ji (Buddist temple)
kono hana (these flowers, Kōmei’s pseudonym)
Kōno Hironaka
Kōno Togama
Konoe Atsumaro (principal of Gakushū -in, later president of House of Peers)
Konoe Tadafusa (acting major counselor)
Konoe Tadahiro (minister of the center later minister of the left): and Kōmei; as chancellor; Manabe’s punishment of; on Kazunomiya’s marriage; and Satsuma domain; and Meiji’s marriage
Korea (later Chōsen): 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; Itō’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)
Kōten kōkyū-sho (school)
Kotohito, Prince
Kōtoku Shūsui (journalist, Meiji’swould-be assassin)
kowtowing
Koyama Toyotarō
Kuang-hsü (Chinese reign-name)
Kuang-hsü (emperor of China)
Kuga Yoshinao (leader of Chūkoku-sha)
Kujō Asako (Kōmei’s consort)
Kujō Hisatada (minister of the right, later chancellor)
Kujō Michitaka
Kujō Michizane
Kujō 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 Hokkaidō Development Office); and defeat of Enomoto; memorandum of on Sakhalin; and envoy to Korea; and Hokkaidō 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 Ōkuma 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 Ruikō (journalist)
Kuropatkin, Alexis Nikolaevich (war minister, Russia)
Kusumoto Masataka (vice president of House of Representatives)
Kuwana, Meiji’s visit to
Kyōkō, Emperor (Prince Sukehito)
Kyōto: earthquake in; reinforcement of guards in; destruction of during Chōshū 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
Kyōto 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
