Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (212 page)

CHILDHOOD:
birthplace of; birth of events surrounding; first bath of; Boy’s Day celebration; residences of; visits of to father; birthday celebrations of; and earthquake; first wearing of colored clothes by; response of to gift giving; hair cutting of; proclamation of as crown prince; and death of K
ō
mei.
See also
K
ō
mei and Meiji

CHILDREN:
mortality rate of; by Natsuko; number of; death of first daughter; death of first son; birth of second daughter; birth of second son; birth of third son; mourning over deaths of; birth and death of fifth daughter; birth of fourth son; birth of sixth daughter; birth of seventh daughter; birth of eighth daughter; relationship with daughters; birth of first grandson.
See also names of individual children

DOCUMENTATION OF LIFE:
in
Meiji tenn
ō
ki
; in letters; in photographs; in paintings and sketches; in poetry (
see also tanka
Meiji’s); in tributes; in woodblock prints

DRESS:
colored clothes, first wearing of; as young boy;
himo-naoshi
(
himo-toki
adult sash ceremony); during mourning period for father; for coronation; frugality of; Western style of; uniforms of; fittings of for new clothes

EDUCATION
; ceremony of first reading; methodology of; K
ō
mei as part of; gaps in; after becoming emperor; while in
Ō
saka; of German language and law; slow progress in; of Chinese classics; in T
ō
ky
ō
about Japan; lectures; of Japanese grammar; of calligraphy; and Satsuma Rebellion; preferences in; diminishing time for; balance in; in.
See also
Motoda Nagazane

EMPEROR:
accession as; and action on Christians in Nagasaki; participation of in discussions of state policy; abduction of rumored plans for; power of under proposed government organization; duty of to produce heir to throne; authority of; foreign recognition of after Sino-Japanese War; assassination plot against; evaluation of.
See also
Meiji: political/governmental actions

HEALTH:
as baby; illness of after first birthday; fevers; chicken pox; sleeplessness; fainting; recurrent dream; diet of; robust constitution of; beriberi; possible depression of; illnesses of in s; illness of in; Tanaka Mitsuaki’s concern over; illness of in; deterioration of; final illness and death of; smoking

NAMES:
posthumous designation of; adult name choice of; derivation of; bestowal of Meiji on; Sachinomiya origin of

POETRY.
See tanka
Meiji’s

POLITICAL/GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS:
political views of; approval of edict against Yoshinobu by; and government reform; on Korea; on Taiwan; on crisis in Kumamoto; interest in; and abolition of Ry
ū
ky
ū
domain; decisions of not consensus based; regularity of; on financial matters; on draft constitution; on changes in Genr
ō
-in; on
Ō
kuma; on convening of parliament; appointment of Stein as adviser to; lack of attention to; on China; on political appointments; on Privy Council; and promulgation of Imperial House Act and Imperial Constitution; on treaty revision; rescript of on education; rescript of on punishment of Czarevitch Nicholas’s attacker; as supreme commander of armed forces; and recall of Yamagata; on political crisis of; reaction of to Ozaki’s speech; on formation of new cabiet; on It
ō
’s forming new political party; re-script of against House of Peers; on judges’ strike; on Russia

READING:
ceremony of first reading;
Classic of Filial Piety
(Confucian text); Confucian classics; literary preferences of; books on warfare and prodigies;
Analects
;
Mencius
; newspapers

TRAVELS AND MISSIONS
(
junk
ō
): to Nij
ō
Castle; to
Ō
saka; to T
ō
ky
ō
to Ky
ō
to from T
ō
ky
ō
to Ch
ū
goku and Saigoku; to northeast; to Yamato Province; function of; to Hokuriku and T
ō
kai; pains of; distance covered by; to Yamanashi Mie and Ky
ō
to Prefectures; expense of preparing for; to Yamagata Akita and Hokkaid
ō
to Yamaguchi Hiroshima and Okayama; suggestion for trip to West; to Ky
ō
to with empress; to Nagoya to observe military maneuvers; to Ky
ō
to and
Ō
saka; to ancestral tombs; day excursions; Six Great Imperial Tours (
roku daijunk
ō
)

Meiji literature

Meiji Restoration.
See
imperial rule

Meiji Shrine (Meiji jing
ū
T
ō
ky
ō
)

Meiji tenn
ō
ki
(Record of the Emperor Meiji)

Meirokusha (intellectual group)

Meit
ō
Prefecture

Memento of Prison: Anarcho-Communism A
(Gud
ō
)

“Memorandum to the Russian Socialist Party” (K
ō
toku)

memorials

mercantile law

Mexico

Meyer, George von Lengerke (American minister to Russia)

Michihito, Prince

Michinomiya.
See
Hirohito; Yoshihisa, Prince

Mie Prefecture

Miho no Matsubara (Pine Grove at Miho)

Mikado.
See
emperors

Mikado, The
(Gilbert and Sullivan)

military.
See also
army; conscription; Household Guards; military drills and maneuvers; navy

Military Account of the Later Three-Year War in
Ō
sh
ū
A
(Mokuami)

military censorship, of the press

military drills and maneuvers: K
ō
mei’s observation of; Meiji’s observation of; Meiji’s participation in; Meiji’s interest in; Meiji and Grant at; in Aichi Prefecture; for New Year; Meiji on attendance at

Min (queen of Korea): and modernization of Korea; escape of from rioters’ attack; and Korean crisis; friendship of with Waeber; assassination of

Min Kyom-ho (overseer of government finances, Korea)

Min Pyong-sok (imperial household minister, Korea)

Minamoto Tametomo

mines: copper; coal

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Religious Instruction

Ministry of Shint
ō
(Jingikan)

Ministry of the Imperial Household

Minken-t
ō
(political party)

Mishima Michitsune (governor of Fukushima)

Mitford A. B. (Lord Redesdale diplomat)

Mitsubishi

Mitsui

Mitsui Bank

Miura Anjin (William Adams)

Miura Gor
ō
(minister to Korea)

Miyaji Iwao (court ritualist)

Miyajima Seiichi
ō

Miyake Setsurei

Miyake Sh
ō
ichi

Miyamoto Teruaki (military attaché)

Miyashita Taikichi (anarchist)

Miyukiyama (Imperial Visit Mountain)

Mizobuchi Takao (public prosecutor)

modernization

Mongols

moral training
(sh
ū
shin)

morality

Mori Arinori (education minister): as minister plenipotentiary in China; as education minister Meiji on; on Yoshihito’s education; on
Essays on Japanese Morality
; death of; posthumous promotion of; on function of education; on mission to United States

M
ō
ri Motoaki

Mori
Ō
gari (writer
formerly
Mori Rintar
ō
)

Mori Rintar
ō
(medical officer
later
Mori
Ō
gai)

M
ō
ri Sadahiro

M
ō
ri Takachika

M
ō
ri Yoshichika (daimyo of Ch
ō
sh
ū
)

Moriya Koresuke

Morocco

Morooka Matsu (restaurateur)

Morse, Edward (scientist)

Motoda Nagazane (Meiji’s chief tutor); philosophy of; service of in Kumamoto domain; memorial of on government;
Rescript on Education
; and Meiji; and Soejima; abolition of office of; on education; lack of world knowledge; and Yoshihito; and treaty revision; death of; New Year lectures by

VIEWS:
on sovereign’s relation with subjects; on foreign loan; on dismissal of
Ō
kuma; on Western-style palaces; on union of palace and state

mourning

Mukden, Manchuria

Murata Shimpachi

Muromachi Kiyoko (court lady)

Mushak
ō
ji Saneatsu (writer)

Mutsu Munemitsu (minister to United States,
later
agriculture and commerce minister,
later
foreign minister): on treaty revision; as agriculture and commerce minister; Meiji’s dislike of; on Article of criminal code; on xenophobia; on Tonghak revolt; on Sino-Japanese War; and Korea; report of on Port Arthur massacre; on attack on Li Hung-chang; resignation of as foreign minister; and Hoshi; imprisonment of

Mutsuhito.
See
Meiji

Nabeshima Naohiro (chief protocol officer)

Nagai Kaf
ū
(writer)

Nagai Kaoyuki (shogunate official)

Nagai Ussai

Nagai Uta

Nagano, Meiji’s visit to

Nagaoka, Meiji’s visit to

Nagaoka Gaishi (vice chief of general staff)

Nagasaki

Nagasaki Express
(newspaper)

Naha (port city)

Nakae Ch
ō
min (materialist philosopher)

Nakagawa, Prince (Son’yu, Kayanomiya, Prince Asahiko): as confidant of K
ō
mei, and
k
ō
bu gattai
faction; as target of planned Ch
ō
sh
ū
attack; on foreigners; rumors about; K
ō
mei’s belief in; on nobles’ meeting with K
ō
mei; resignation of; and Meiji; exile of; and Kawaji; multiple names of

Nakagawanomiya.
See
Nakagawa, Prince

Nakahara Hisao

Nakai Hiroshi

Nakajima Sabur
ō
suke (Uraga magistrate)

Nakamikado Tsuneyuki (nobleman)

Nakamura Kusatao

Nakaoka Shintar
ō

Nakatsugawa village

Nakayama Isako (Meiji’s great-great-aunt)

Nakayama Naruchika

Nakayama Tadamitsu (Meiji’s uncle)

Nakayama Tadanaru (Meiji’s uncle)

Nakayama Tadayasu (Meiji’s maternal grandfather,
later
adviser to the throne); false accusations against; action of on son’s plotting against Iwakura Tomomi; memories of; on palace women’s quarters; as chair of meeting on new government; on site of capital; at Charter Oath ceremonies; as head of Ministry of Shint
ō
antiforeign sentiments of; on traditional medicine

Nakayama Tadayasu, and Meiji: and Meiji’s birth; first New Year presents to Meiji from; on Meiji’s visits to palace; anger of at Meiji’s behavior; concern of over Meiji’s dreams; as grandfather of Meiji; at Meiji’s wedding ceremonies; at Meiji’s audience with foreign ministers; travel with Meiji to T
ō
ky
ō
on Meiji’s second visit to east; on Meiji’s “mission” to distant parts of Japan; Meiji’s visits to; as godfather of Meiji’s son

Nakayama Takamaro (Meiji’s cousin)

Nakayama Tsunako (Meiji’s great-grandmother)

Nakayama Yoshiko (Meiji’s mother, Nii no tsubone, Nii-dono, Ichii): and Meiji’s birth ix–x; journey with baby Meiji to K
ō
mei; at ritual meal for Meiji’s first colored clothing; relinquishing of maternal rights by; as supervisor of Meiji’s calligraphy; at court after K
ō
mei’s death; and Yoshihito; final illness and death of; funeral of; relationship with Meiji

names: inauspicious; god names; of emperors posthumous; of empresses posthumous; for empress dowager; Genji for concubines.; Chinese classics as source of imperial.
See also neng
ō

Naniwa
(cruiser)

Nansai Toshitada (artist)

Narashinohara (Maneuver Fields)

national defense.
See also
army; navy; warships

national holidays

national polity

national religion.
See also
Buddhism; Shint
ō