Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back (48 page)

The Oyama family, pictured in Colliers
, 1904. From left to right: Sutematsu, Takashi, Marquis Iwao Oyama, Kashiwa, Hisako. (Courtesy Vassar College Library Special Collections.)

INDEX

Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

Page numbers in
italics
refer to photographs.

Abbott, Ellen “Aunt Nelly,” 113–14, 125–26, 176

Abbott, John S. C., 107, 112–13

Abbott family, 114, 136

abolitionists, 102

Addison, Joseph, 251

African Americans, 77, 91–92, 102, 109, 120–21, 150, 214

Ainu people, 43, 146

Aizu code, 23, 24, 34, 39

junior version of, 24–25

Aizu domain, 19, 23–24, 28, 32, 43, 49, 56, 89, 177, 178, 238, 267, 282
n

Boshin War and, 33–38

education in, 24–25, 39–40

exile to Tonami of, 38–39, 40, 46, 47

hierarchy in, 36

malnutrition of refugees within, 39, 40, 47, 49

remoteness of Wakamatsu and, 23, 27, 31, 50

retainers of, 23–24

samurai of, 25, 26–27, 38, 39, 99, 170

Tonami school of, 39–40

Wakamatsu school of, 24–25, 35, 253

weaponry in, 34

see also
Tonami; Wakamatsu

Aizu prison camp, 38, 40, 48

alternate attendance, 22

Alvord, William, 72

Amaterasu, 21

America
, 58–59, 65, 69, 264

American Oriental Society, 111

American Women’s Scholarship for Japanese Women, 230, 234, 235, 247

Amherst College, 94, 171

Andover Theological Seminary, 94

Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy at, 114–15, 135, 168, 189, 271

Anthony, Susan B., 127

Antisell, Thomas, 104

antislavery movement, 102

Arabic
, 151–53, 156–57, 161

Archer, Mrs., 138

Archer Institute, 138

Arlington Hotel, 90

Asahi Shimbun
, 143, 273

Atami, 197

Atlantic Monthly
, 74, 122

Aurora, Ill., 86

Azabu, 162, 188, 195, 203, 204

Backus, Truman, 130

Bacon, Alfred, 265

Bacon, Alice Mabel, 12, 102, 108, 110, 111, 129, 140, 144–45, 146–48, 176, 247

death of, 274, 275

Hampton Institute and, 109, 211, 214, 228, 231, 240, 255, 274

Imperial Palace tour and, 217–18

in Japan, 211–24, 225, 226–27, 257–60, 262, 265, 274

Japanese constitution and, 219–20

Japanese customs/etiquette and, 222, 223

on Japanese empress, 223

Japanese Girls and Women
of, 228–29, 230, 231–32

Japanese house of, 212–13

Mitsu adopted by, 224, 255, 257, 274

open mind of, 214

at Peeresses’ School, 212, 213–14, 220–22, 223, 226–27, 254

photograph of,
159
, 265

plans to go to Japan, 146, 147

retirement of, 274

return to U.S., 223–24, 265, 266, 267–68

Russo-Japanese War and, 270, 274

salary of, 212

Shige and, 216, 271

Sutematsu and, 109, 114, 144, 151–52, 156, 163–64, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174–75, 176, 179, 180–81, 182, 193, 198, 199, 211, 212, 215, 216, 237–38, 242, 245, 254–55, 271, 273, 274–75

as teacher, 109, 211, 212, 213–14, 220–21, 226–27, 254, 259, 260, 262

Tsuda College and, 257, 258, 259, 260, 262

Ume and, 211–13, 214, 216, 220, 221, 228–29, 235, 238, 239, 241, 242, 248–49, 250, 254, 267–68

at Women’s Higher Normal School, 254, 257

Bacon, Catherine, 103, 106, 108, 109, 111–12, 116, 125, 129, 140, 141, 144, 145

Bacon, Delia, 106

Bacon, Francis, 145

Bacon, Georgeanna, 145

Bacon, Leonard, 101–2, 103, 105, 108, 110, 112, 220, 239, 274

death of, 140–41

on women’s duties, 106, 113

Bacon, Nelly, 108, 109, 140

Bacon, Rebecca, 101, 102, 103, 109, 125–26, 145, 176, 211

Bacon, Sir Francis, 106

Bacon family, 107, 108, 110–11, 117, 126, 129, 146, 170

Barnum, P. T., 108

Beale, Dorothea, 251, 252, 260

Belgic
, 224

Bishopthorpe Palace, 252

Block Island, R.I., 134

Bonté, Fannie, 149

Bonté, John H. C., 149, 151

Bonté family, 150

Booth, Newton, 80

Boshin War, 33–38, 60, 155, 177

Bowdoin College, 112

Bradley & Rulofson, 78

Breed, Alice Ives, 249

British Museum, 253

Bruce (Alice’s dog), 213

Bryant, William Cullen, 117–18

Bryn Mawr College, 226, 227, 228–29, 230, 234, 240, 241, 246, 250, 258, 261, 274

Byakkotai, 36, 282
n

California, 56–57, 69, 80, 149

Chinese laborers in, 74, 75, 149–50

gold rush in, 76

California, University of, 149

Cape Horn, 83

Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, 275

Carrie (Sutematsu’s classmate), 110

Carrington, Kate, 111

Carrington, Sarah, 111

Centennial Exhibition, 121–24

Chamberlin, Rose, 228

charity, 110, 200–202, 258

Charter Oath, 44–45, 47, 53

Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 251

Cheyenne, Wyo., 148–49

Cheyenne Opera House, 148

Chiarini, Giuseppe, 209

Chicago, Ill., 80, 85, 86–88, 147, 288
n

Chicago Record
, 247–48

Chicago Tribune
, 87, 88, 142

China, Chinese, 28

American labor of, 74, 75, 102, 150

appearance of, 75

Christian influence feared by, 140

Japanese trade with, 27

Japanese vs., 74–75

laborers’ return to, 152–53

military of, 238

in Opium Wars, 27

in San Francisco, 149–50

Sino-Japanese War and, 236–38, 239, 269

study abroad of, 100, 103, 111, 123

as uncivilized, 238

Chinese Educational Mission, 100, 111, 123

Chinese Exclusion Act, 150

Chinese immigration, 150

Choshu domain, 33, 39, 40, 41

Christianity, 115, 153, 170, 226, 238

Chinese feared influence of, 140

as illegal in Japan, 27, 104, 105

Iwakura girls and, 102, 103–4, 114, 120–21, 153

in Japan, 165, 168

Tsuda family and, 165, 188

Western strength and, 120

Chugai Bukka Shimpo
, 202

Civil War, U.S., 91, 109, 113, 145, 150, 184

Classic of Filial Piety
, 25

Colebrook, Conn., 111, 116, 117, 140, 145

Committee to Help Miss Tsuda’s School in Japan, 257

concubinage, 248

Confucianism, 23, 25, 33, 39, 99, 110, 186, 259

education and, 25, 186, 187, 229

hierarchy and, 23, 27, 99, 229

obedience and, 25, 99, 229, 240;
see also
obedience

women and, 23, 25, 240, 260

Congregationalism, 102

Connecticut, 100, 101, 103–15, 145–47

Connecticut Board of Education, 100

Connecticut Training School for Nurses, 145–46, 200, 242

Cornell University, 171

corsets, 286
n

Daily National Republican
, 117

daimyo, 21

alternate attendance required of, 22

domain abolishment and, 41

expenses of, 22

trading treaties and, 31

Daughter of the Samurai, A
(Sugimoto), 7, 13, 67, 159

Davis, J. D., 147, 148, 152

Davis, Mrs., 147, 148, 152, 153

Deephaven, 255, 274

Dejima, 27

DeLong, Charles, 47, 69–70, 72, 74, 84, 90, 285
n

DeLong, Elida Vineyard, 47, 56, 62, 70, 71, 73, 78, 81, 87, 90

Denver, Colo., General Federation of Women’s Clubs convention in, 249–50

Dickens, Charles, 110, 147

divorce laws, 248

dolls, 26, 34, 222

domains, 23

abolishment of, 41

as reorganized into prefectures, 155

rivalries among, 23, 33, 39, 41

schools of, 24;
see also
Nisshinkan

see also
specific domains

Drake, John B., 288
n

Dreaming Iolanthe, The
, 122

Dutch learning, 28, 31

Edo,
see
Tokyo

Edo Castle, 33, 60, 217

education, 26, 57, 185–86

in Aizu domain, 24–25, 39–40

Confucianism and, 25, 186, 187, 229

in Great Britain, 251

during Meiji era, 163, 178, 185–86, 188, 190, 193, 199, 210–11, 229–30, 234–35, 247–48, 257, 269–70

morality as primary focus of, 186

for women/girls, 17, 44, 55–56, 57, 81, 113, 128, 145, 163, 170, 178, 187, 188, 190, 193, 199, 210–11, 231, 234–35, 247–50, 257, 259, 260, 269–70, 271, 272–73

see also
Iwakura Mission, girls of; study abroad;
specific schools

education, American, 254

of Iwakura Mission, 109–10, 112, 117, 124–25, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 138, 139–40, 141–43, 147

for women and girls, 44, 128;
see also
specific schools

“Education and Culture—What Japanese Women Want Now” (U. Tsuda), 230

emancipation, 92

Emerson’s Minstrels, 77

Empress of China
, 253

English Student, The
, 261

English Teachers’ Certificate, 247, 263

“Errand-Bearers, The” (Whitman), 46

Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine
(Hartshorne), 246

Europe, 31, 39–40

colonization and, 27, 236

Evening Critic
, 147

Evening Star
, 89, 93, 97

Ezo,
see
Hokkaido

Fairmount Park, Pa., 122

Far East
, 248, 249

Fillmore, Millard, 29

Finance Ministry, Japanese, 61, 62

First Unitarian Church, 81

Fish, Hamilton, 79, 97

France, 30, 236, 239

Franco-Prussian War, 110

Franklin, Benjamin, 223, 230

freed slaves, 102, 109

Fukuchi, Gen’ichiro, 62–63

Fukui, Makoto, 124

Fukuzawa, Yukichi, 39–40, 46, 112

Fundamental Code of Education, 185

Gaiyukai, 269

geisha, 180
n
, 185, 193, 202

General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 249–50

Geneva, 177

Georgetown, Wash. D.C., 90, 104, 115, 118, 120–21, 124, 147, 148, 166, 188, 189, 194, 197, 203, 205, 241, 255, 272

Georgetown Collegiate Institute, 117

Germany, 239

Gilbert, W. S., 208

Gilded Age, 91

Gilded Age, The
(Twain & Warner), 92

Girls’ Higher School Law, 257

Gleaner
, 127

gold rush, 76

Grand Hotel, 71–72, 76, 78, 80, 83, 104, 166

Grant, Ulysses S., 83, 84, 91, 93, 123, 184–85, 186, 188, 264

Great Britain, 27, 42, 50, 209, 236

education in, 251

Japanese trade with, 30

Japanese visits to, 80

Ume’s trip to, 250–52

Great Chicago Fire, 87, 288
n

“Greater Learning for Women,” 187

Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), 275

“Great Principles of Education” (Nagazane Motoda), 186

Grove Hall Seminary, 109–10

“Hail Columbia,” 73, 122

Hakodate, 47, 48, 49, 60

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 109, 176, 211, 214, 228, 231, 240, 255, 274

Handbook of Nursing for Family and General Use, A
(G. Bacon), 145

Handel, George Frideric, 125

Harper’s Weekly
, 78

Hartshorne, Anna Cope, 228, 234, 246–47, 250, 257, 266, 269, 275–76

Hartshorne, Henry, 246

Haru, Crown Prince, 218

see also
Yoshihito, Taisho Emperor of Japan

Haruko, Meiji Empress of Japan, 16–17, 51, 52, 99, 107, 128, 191, 194, 198–99, 219, 232, 255–56, 271

adopted son of, 218
n

birthday of, 262

charity work of, 237

death of, 272

Peeresses’ School and, 199, 205–6, 220–22, 223

as trapped by traditions, 198

Western-style clothing for, 220

Harvard’s Examinations for Women, 247

Harvard University, 129, 144–45, 261

Hawaii, 236

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 112

Hayama, 246

Haydn, Joseph, 125

Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B., 138

Haynes & Lawton, 78

Hemmings, Anita Florence, 293
n

Hepburn, James Curtis, 288
n

Hepburn, Mrs., 91, 288
n

Hepburn family, 95

Heusken, Henry, 30

Hillhouse High School, 112, 124–25, 127

Hillhouse Society, 110

hinamatsuri
(Doll Festival), 26, 34

Hiratsuka, Raicho, 272

Hiscock, Helen, 132

Hitotsuyanagi, Makiko, 274, 275