Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (209 page)

Garfield, James A.

Garter Mission to Japan, The
(Redesdale)

geishas

Genji (reign-name)

Genji names for concubines

Genj
ō
raku
(dance work)

Genoa, duke of

genr
ō
(elder statesmen)

Genr
ō
-in (Senate)

George, Prince (of England,
later
George V)

George, Prince (of Greece)

German language

Germany: army of; revised treaty with; on cession of Liaotung Peninsula; possession of Kiang-chou Bay and Shantung area; missionaries from; death of minister from; role and Russo-Japanese War

gi
(righteousness)

gifts: at Meiji’s birth; at Meiji’s first presentation to father; at Meiji’s first New Year; at Meiji’s first birthday; of fresh fish; on Meiji’s wearing colored clothing; giving of, as ritual; to and from duke of Edinburgh; from Austro-Hungarian Empire; Meiji’s to pupils; Meiji’s to his aunt; Meiji’s to Fujinami; Meiji’s to impoverished nobles; in response to attack on Czarevitch Nicholas; for Meiji’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary; Meiji’s to Yoshihito; Meiji’s and Haruko’s to Yi Eun; royalty’s to charities; Meiji’s to It
ō

Gladstone, William (prime minister, Britain)

Gneist, Rudolf von

Godai Tomoatsu (samurai)

Gokoku-ji (Shingon temple)

Gomizunoo (emperor)

gon no tenji
(concubines).
See also
Hamuro Mitsuko; Hashimoto Natsuko; Ogura Fumiko; Sono Sachiko; Yanagihara Naruko

Gorchakov, Alexander

Gosakuramachi (retired empress)

Gosho (imperial palace grounds)

Got
ō
Shimpei (physician)

Got
ō
Sh
ō
jir
ō
(Tosa councillor,
later
agriculture and commerce minister); and Y
ō
d
ō
; at meeting on government reform; defense of British minister by; and Meiji; resignation of; proposal of, for lower house of legislature; as president of Jiy
ū
-t
ō
; in Europe; as agriculture and commerce minister

government: lack of; Nishi Amane’s proposal for; meeting on reform of; finances of; reorganization of; Meiji’s role in (
see also
Meiji: political/governmental actions); Motoda on; salary payments by; post-Restoration, lack of confidence in; local allegiance to; on meddlings of
jiho
; privatization of properties of; new ideas about; crux of problem of; and Jiy
ū
-t
ō
; control of religion by; pro-Western leaders in; Meiji’s rescript on progress in; and Diet; Korean policy of; and investigation of Queen Min’s assassination; and Boxer Rebellion expenses; difficulties facing; and war with Russia; banning of Shakai minsh
ū
-t
ō
by.
See also
cabinet; constitutional government; Court Council; Diet; emperors; House of Peers; House of Representatives; imperial rule; republican government; shogunate

Grand Naval Review

Grant, Mrs. Ulysses S.

Grant, Ulysses S.: Meiji’s message to; as emissary of China; in England; personality of; in Japan; Meiji’s meetings with; on Japan’s and China’s military strength; and Ry
ū
ky
ū
negotiations; on foreign indebtedness; reception of; on foreign teachers; on elected assemblies

Great Britain: friendship treaty with; attack on Edo legation of; on open port in Tsushima; on reparations; rivalry of, with France; Meiji’s response to attack on citizens of; on invasion of Taiwan; and treaty revision; and Sino-Japanese War; control of mouth of Yangtse by; pro-Japanese sentiments in; and Russo-Japanese War; anti-Russian sentiments in; treaty of, with United States; anti-Japanese sentiments in; posthumous tributes to Meiji in; treatment of Akihito in.
See also
Anglo-Japanese Alliance; Parkes Harry S.; Satow Ernest

Great Han Empire

Great Purge of the Ansei era

Great Shrine of Ise.
See
Ise Shrine

Gresham, Walter Q. (secretary of state, United States)

Grey, Edward (foreign secretary, Britain)

“Grief over Empire Day” (K
ō
toku)

Griffis, William Elliot

Griscom, Lloyd (American minister to Japan)

Gulick, Sidney

Gunjin kunkai
(Admonitions to Military

Men; Yamagata)

Gyokusen-ji (Buddhist temple)

Hachi
ō
ji, Meiji’s visit to

Hai-ch’eng

haihan chiken
(abolition of domains and establishment of prefectures)

Hakodate

Hall of Mourning

Hamao Arata (education minister)

Hamuro Mitsuko (Meiji’s concubine)

Han Kyu-sol (acting prime minister, Korea)

Hana goten (Palace of Flowers)

Hanabusa Yoshimoto (minister to Korea)

Hansong, Korea

Hara Takashi (interior minister)

Harada J
ū
kichi (army private)

Haraguchi Kiyoshi

harakiri
(
seppuku
)

Harbin, Korea

Harris, Townsend (American consul to Japan)

Harunomiya.
See
Yoshihito Prince

Hasegawa Yoshimichi (general)

Hashimoto Chikanobu (artist)

Hashimoto Gah
ō
(painter)

Hashimoto Natsuko (Meiji’s concubine)

Hashimoto Saneakira (nobleman)

Hashimoto Saneyana (nobleman)

Hashimoto Tsunatsune (army surgeon,
later
surgeon general)

Hawaii

Hayama, Yoshihito’s love for

Hayashi Gonsuke

Hayashi
Ō
en

Hayashi Tadasu (deputy foreign minister): on Kim’s murder; on fear of China; on threat posed by Germany; at funeral of Queen Victoria; and alliance with Britain

Hayashi Tomoyuki (Interior Ministry official)

Hayashi Y
ū
z
ō

Hayashida Sadakata

Hayes, Rutherford B.

heads of state, foreign

Hearn, Lafcadio

heat

Hedin, Sven (Swedish explorer)

Heij
ō
(n
ō
play)

Heimin shimbun
(Common People’s Newspaper)

Heiminsha (socialist organization)

Heinrich, Prince (of Germany)

Higashifushimi, Prince

Higashikuze Michitomi (K
ō
mei’s playmate,
later
Meiji’s envoy): memories of K
ō
mei; on K
ō
mei’s studiousness; on K
ō
mei’s physique; meetings of, with foreign ministers; visit of, to British legation; on funerals for members of imperial family

Higuchi Tetsushir
ō

Hijikata Hisamoto (Interior Ministry official,
later
imperial household minister); and Meiji; on Wilhelm I’s birthday celebrations; and Yoshihito’s education; on treaty revision; as imperial household minister; press attack on

Hikone

Hino Sukemune

Hinonishi Sukehiro (chamberlain); on Meiji’s drinking; on Meiji’s indifference to surroundings; on Meiji’s paintings; on Haruko’s stay in Hiroshima; on Meiji’s visit to industrial areas; on Meiji’s sensitivity to own weight; on Meiji’s actions during Russo-Japanese War; on Meiji’s acceptance of Order of the Garter; on Meiji’s reaction to It
ō
’s death; on Meiji’s avoidance of doctors; on Meiji’s lack of emotionalism; on Meiji’s intellectual interests; on Meiji’s sense of humor; on Meiji’s delayed return from Ky
ō
to

Hippisley, Alfred

Hirai Yoshimasa (interpreter)

Hiraishi (judge)

Hirata Nobutane

Hirohata Mototoyo (court spokesman)

Hirohito (Michinomiya, Meiji’s grand son)

Hirosawa Saneomi (counselor)

Hiroshima

History of England
(Hume)

Hofmann, Theodor

H
ō
j
ō
Ujiyasu (chamberlain)

Hokkaid
ō

Hokkaid
ō
Development Office

holidays

Holland.
See also
Donker Curtius, Jan Hendrik

Hong Chong-u

Hong Kong governor of

Hong Sun-mok

Hong Yong-sik (postmaster general, Korea)

honji suijaku
(religious doctrine)

Honsh
ū

Hope, James

Hori Tatsunosuke

Hori Toshihiro

Horiguchi Kumaichi (consul)

Horikawa Motoku

Horimoto Reiz
ō
(lieutenant)

Hoshi T
ō
ru (president of House of Representatives): and proposed appropriations cuts; assassination of; life and career of; early political activities of; arrest of, for political speech; “The Limitations of Government”; study of foreign political institutions by; as minister to United States; perceived corruption of; and plot against Ozaki;
Ō
kuma’s decoration of

H
ō
sh
ō
Kur
ō
(n
ō
actor)

Hotta Masayoshi (senior councillor)

House of Peers: composition and duties of; It
ō
as president of; resolution of, on election interference; salary cuts of members of, to pay for warships; on raise in taxes; and party cabinet; membership in

House of Representatives: proposal to create; composition and duties of; populist parties’ majority in; salary cuts of members of, to pay for warships; and treaty revision; dissolutions of; vote of no confidence in cabinet by; general election of; and Katsura’s cabinet

Household Guards

Hsüan T’ung (emperor of China)

Hubbard, Richard B.

Hubner, Alexander de

human beings, sale of

hundo
(Korean officer)

Hy
ō
go

“I Am a Bugler” (Toyama Masakazu)

Iba S
ō
tar
ō
(fencing teacher)

Ibaraki, peasant revolt in

Ichij
ō
Haruko (Masako, Meiji’s consort, Empress Sh
ō
ken): as possible bride for Meiji; as
ny
ō
go
; at marriage ceremony; entrance of, into palace; poetry by (
see also tanka
: first lines); effects of planned visit to T
ō
ky
ō
by; education of; Westernized appearance of; with emperor in worship; and Mrs. Grant; and Kalakaua; gifts of, to queen of Hawaii; Prince George’s description of; visit of, to Iwakura; on women’s clothes; increased prominence of; public activities of; travel with Meiji to Ky
ō
to; illness of; response of, to attack on Czarevitch Nicholas; at celebration of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary; visits of, to wounded men; relationship with daughters; visit of, to grandson; visit of, to Nakayama Yoshiko; visit of, to Numazu; yielding of place of honor to Taish
ō
by; interest of, in military matters; photographs of

Ichij
ō
Saneyoshi (general of the left guards)

Ichij
ō
Tadaka (minister of the left)

Ido Hiromichi (Uraga magistrate)

Ii Naosuke

Ijichi Masaharu (vice president)

Ij
ū
in Hikokichi (minister plenipotentiary to China)

Ikeda Kensai (physician)

Ikeda Nagaoki (foreign affairs minister)

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 Shint
ō
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; K
ō
mei’s opposition to; nobles’ plan for; Tadayasu on; disturbances over; Y
ō
d
ō
on; articles calling for; proclamation of; administrative problems after.
See also
shogunate