Emperor of Japan

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