by Donald Keene
women See also court: ladies of
woodblock prints. See nishikie
xenophobia: of Kōmei; 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 nō performance; and Kagoshima situation; strategy message to Sanjō 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 Gonnohyōe (navy minister)
Yamaoka Tesshū
Yamashina Tokinaru (nobleman)
Yamashinanomiya. See Akira Prince
Yamashinanomiya Sadamaro
Yamashita Club (political party)
Yamauchi Yōdō
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 Ryōsuke (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 Shinnō)
Yi Kang
Yi Kyong-jik (imperial household minister, Korea)
Yi Sang-sol (vice prime minister, Korea)
Yi Wan-yong (prime minister Korea); and Ilchon-hoe; in cabinet; and annexation; An Chung-gun on; checkered career of
Yi Wi-jong
Yi Yong-gu
yin-yang divination (ukei): importance of; and purification of Meiji’s birthplace; and Sachi no i; at Meiji’s early illness; at Meiji’s marriage; priests of; for time of Meiji’s coronation; description of
Yokoi Shōnan (councillor)
Yokoyama Matakichi
yomi (world after death)
Yoneda Torao (chief chamberlain)
Yoriko Princess
Yosano Akiko (poet)
Yoshiaki, Prince
Yoshida Kiyonari (minister to United States)
Yoshida Shōin
Yoshihisa, Prince (Michinomiya, Rinnō-jinomiya, Kōgen Kitashirakawanomiya); as priest; background of; in Odawara; in Shizuoka; and Yoshinobu; and Shōgitai; flight of; as antigovernment rebel; lenient punishment of; travels abroad; at luncheon with Czarevitch Nicholas; death of; statue of; marriage of, to foreigner
Yoshihito Prince (Harunomiya, Taishō [reign-name], Meiji’s son, crown prince): location of coronation ceremony of; birth of; health of; move of, to palace; education of; undisciplined nature of; as heir to throne; woodblock prints of; at first reception for foreign diplomats; promotions of, in army and navy; at first poetry gathering; infatuation of, with West; foreign decorations awarded to; marriage of; travels of; children of; new palace for; first court of; accession of
Yoshihito, and Meiji: Meiji’s first glimpse of; Meiji on education of; Meiji’s concern for health of; visits of, to Meiji; Meiji’s relationship with; Meiji’s finding a bride for; Meiji’s spoiling of; Meiji on independence of; at Meiji’s funeral
Yoshii Tomozane (chief of staff)
Yoshikawa Akimasa
Yoshimura Toratarō
Yoshinobu. See Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Young, John Russell (writer); on Meiji’s interest in military reviews; description of Meiji; description of Japanese dignitaries; on Bingham versus Parkes; on Grant’s visit to Tōkyō on British views on tariffs; description of Iwakura
Yüan Shih-k’ai (commanding general, China)
Yuko (maid)
Yumoto Takehiko
Yunnan region (China)
Yuri Kimimasa,
Zenkō-ji (Buddist temple)
Zilliacus, Konni
