Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852’1912 (213 page)

Natsume S
ō
seki

natural disasters

natural resources

Naval Ministry

navy: Meiji’s interest in; Meiji’s personal command of; reviews of maneuvers held by; battles fought by; and Russo-Japanese War; sailors’ suffering from beriberi

navy band

neng
ō
(reign-name); Meiji xiii; Ansei (Peaceful Government); Mannen change to Bunky
ū
Genji change to Kei
ō
K
ō
ka change to K
ō
mei; in China; in Korea

Nesselrode, Karl Robert (foreign minister, Russia)

New Year.
See also
lectures

newspapers

Nezu Masashi

Nicholas (czarevitch of Russia): visit of, to Japan; assassination attempt on; Japanese doctors prohibited from seeing; Meiji’s visit to; Meiji’s luncheon with

Nicholas II (czar of Russia): coronation of; message of friendship to Meiji from; expansionist views of; on war with Japan; character of; attempt on life of; reaction of, to defeat at Mukden; and peace negotiations with Japan

Nihon d
ō
toku ron
(Essays on Japanese Morality; Nishimura)

Nihon heimin-t
ō
(Japan People’s Party)

Nihon shakai-t
ō
(Japan Social Party)

Nii no tsubone.
See
Nakayama Yoshiko

Niigata, Meiji’s visit to

Niimura Tadao (anarchist)

Nij
ō
Akizane (chancellor)

Nij
ō
Castle

Nij
ō
Nariyuki (regent, chancellor)

Nikk
ō
, Meiji’s visit to

Ninkai (priest of Iwashimizu Hachimang
ū
shrine)

Nink
ō
(Meiji’s paternal grandfather)

Nippon Club

Nirei Kagenori (rear admiral)

Nish, Ian

Nishi Amane

Nishi Tokujir
ō
(foreign minister)

Nishikawa Mitsujir
ō
(member of Heiminsha)

nishikie
(woodblock prints): of Meiji; of Grant; of Yoshihito; of Shirakami as hero; of Harada as hero; of soldiers in Manchuria; of Haruko visiting hospitals; of Li Hung-chang in; of Meiji’s silver wedding anniversary; of battle of Yellow Sea; of dying sailor

Nishimura Shigeki (scholar); lectures by; and Yoshihito’s education; on treaty revision

Nishino Buntar
ō

n
ō
: revival of; shogunate’s patron age of; Meiji’s attendance at; Grant’s reaction to; livelihoods of performers of

nobility: code of behavior followed by; and shogunate; on treaty with United States; forced resignations of; in government; extremism of;
sonn
ō
j
ō
i
faction of; as supporters of restoration of imperial rule; in charge of warfare; conservatism of female officials of; Sh
ō
Tai named to; plight of former high-ranking; education of sons of; Meiji on duties of; Meiji on future of; devious activities of

nobility (Korea)

Nobuko, Princess

Noda Chiaki (reporter)

Nogi Maresuke (acting major,
later
general); Meiji’s gift of poetry to; shame of over Japan’s military success; as candidate for chief of general staff; suicide of

Nogi Shizuko (Maresuke’s wife)

Nomura Yasushi

Nonomiya Sadanaga

Normanton
(British freighter)

Nozu Michizane (commanding general)

Oakley, Jane H.

Oath in Five Articles

Oda Nobunaga

Ō
e Taku

“Official Report on Matters Connected with the Events of October 8th, 1895, and the Death of the Queen” (Korean authorities)

Ogasawara Nagamichi (member of Council of Elders)

Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands

Ogi Masayoshi (chamberlain)

Ō
gimachi Kintada

Ō
gimachi Sanemitsu (Meiji’s paternal great-grandfather)

Ō
gimachi Sanenori

Ō
gimachisanj
ō
Sanenaru; and Nagai Uta; and K
ō
mei; false accusations against; on war in Ch
ō
sh
ū
domain; punishment of; at Charter Oath ceremonies

Ogura Fumiko (Meiji’s concubine)

Ogura Shohei

Oguri Tadamasa

Ō
hara Shigetomi (nobleman)

Ō
jin, Emperor

Oka Genkei (physician)

Oka Shigeki (member of Heiminsha)

Oka Yoshitake

Okakura Kakuz
ō

Okamoto Ry
ū
nosuke (“patriot”)

Ō
ki Takat
ō

Okinawa.
See
Ry
ū
ky
ū
kingdom

“Okitsu Yagoemon no isho” (The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon;
Ō
gai)

Oku Yasukata (chief of general staff)

Ō
kubo Toshimichi (councillor); and shogunate; and Takachika; at meeting on government reform; audience of with Meiji; and
haihan chiken
; as councillor; and conflict in Saga; report of, on Taiwan situation; and negotiations with China; proposal of for Meiji’s visit to Hokkaid
ō
at n
ō
performance; report of, on Shinp
ū
ren revolt; at strategy meetings; power of; control of police network by; death threats to; Meiji’s posthumous promotion of; importance of to cabinet

VIEWS:
on location of capital; on Motoda; on emperor’s role; on subjects’ familiarity with Meiji; on Et
ō
’s trial; on trade deficit; on peasants; on role in achieving work of Restoration

Ō
kuma Shigenobu (finance minister,
later
prime minister,
later
foreign minister): and Parkes; at meeting on Sakhalin border problem; on possible mission to West; report of, on Taiwan situation; and budget for; at n
ō
performance; Shimada on; cannon fire at residence of; attempt of to float foreign loan; and Soejima; proposal of on financial problems; resignation of; on issue of parliament; and Satsuma; and founding of Rikken kai shint
ō
devotion of to imperial household; as foreign minister; determination of, to end extraterritoriality; on treaty revision; on revised treaties and constitution; attack on; controversial views of; and freedom of the press; demands of, for joining cabinet; on union of Jiy
ū
-t
ō
and Shimpo-t
ō
; and cabinet crisis of; on conduct of elections; and Itagaki; and Ozaki scandal; and Hoshi’s Hawaiian proposal; British influence on

Ō
kunitama

Ō
mura Masujir
ō
(war minister)

Onshi zaidan saseikai (Imperial Gift Foundation)

Ō
numa Chinzan

on’y
ō
ji
(priests of yin and yang).
See also
yin-yang divination

open country policy

Open Door policy

open port policy (China)

open ports, in friendship treaty with United States

Ō
saka

Ō
saka English Language School

Ō
saka Mint

Ō
saka Teachers Training School

Oscar II (king of Sweden)

Ō
shima Yoshimasa (general)

Ō
taguro Tomoo

Otokoyama (ritual)

Ō
tori Keisuke (minister to Korea)

Ō
tsu incident.
See
Nicholas (czarevitch of Russia)

Ō
yama Iwao (army minister): as commandant of Kumamoto garrison; petition of to Sanj
ō
and Imperial Rescript for Military Men; as army minister; denial of Port Arthur massacre by; and formation of new cabinet; on Korea

Ō
yama Tsunayoshi

Oyashirazu Koshirazu

Ozaki Yukio

pacifism

Pak Che-sun

Pak Yong-hyo (Korean senior envoy)

palace (imperial); fire at; completion of new; fighting at, during Ch
ō
sh
ū
rebellion; women’s quarters of; Shint
ō
observances at; Meiji’s authorization of rebuilding of; Young’s description of; as ultimate authority over divided government; at Hakone; restoration of; for Yoshihito.
See also
Gosho

palace (royal, Korea)

Paléologue, Maurice (political affairs officer, France)

paper, Western-style

paper currency

Parkes, Harry S. (British minister to Japan): message of, to Tokugawa Iemo-chi; and Yoshinobu; on prohibition of Christianity; attack on; and negotiations of surrender of Edo Castle; and Meiji; influence of, on foreign ministers’ neutrality; on duke of Edinburgh’s visit; Young’s description of; on proposal for treaty revisions; departure of for China; protest of, over Hoshi’s mistranslation of royal title; on Japan’s treaty with United States

parliament.
See also
Diet

patriotism, as unifying force

peasants: revolts by; Kido’s six-point program on

Peerage Act

Peeresses’ School (Kazoku jogakk
ō
)

pennants, imperial

people of the peninsula
(hant
ō
jin)

Perry, Matthew Calbraith (commodore of navy fleet, United States)

Pescadores Islands

Petz, Antony von

Philip IV (king of Spain)

phonographs

photographs

Pierce, Franklin

Plunkett, Francis

poems: role of, in emperors’ educations; and personal feelings; on Mount Fuji; by Soejima, on returning to Japan; by farmers; exchanges of; by Shimada; by Haruko for Peeresses’ School; on hero of Sino-Japanese War; on Harada as hero; for New Year; by Meiji in manner of war song; by Nogi of farewell.
See also tanka; tanka
Meiji’s

Poland

political activism, T
ō
ky
ō
as center for

political murders.
See
assassinations

political novels

political parties: in Saga Prefecture; role of, in Diet; It
ō
on; K
ō
toku on

NAMES:
Ch
ū
ritsu; Gakk
ō
-t
ō
, Ganko-t
ō
; Ilchin-hoe (Korea); Jitsugakut
ō
Kaehwadang (Korea); Kaika-t
ō
, Keishin-t
ō
(Shinp
ū
ren); Kensei-t
ō
; Minken-t
ō
; Ni-hon heimin-t
ō
; Nihon shakai-t
ō
; Rikken kai shint
ō
; Rikken teiseit
ō
Russian Socialist Party; Sadaedang; Seikan-t
ō
Seiy
ū
kai; Shakai minsh
ū
-t
ō
Shimpo-t
ō
Social Revolutionary Party; Tosa Freedom Party; Yamashita Club.
See also
Freedom and Popular Rights movement; Jiy
ū
-t
ō
liberal parties

pollution

Port Arthur, China: massacre at; Russia’s reluctance to leave; Japan’s blockade of; surrender of to Japan; Meiji on siege of; Nogi’s shame at deaths at

Portman, A. L. C. (acting American minister to Japan)

Potemkin
(battleship), mutiny on

“Present-Day Political Society and Socialism” (K
ō
toku)

press; foreign, bribery of

Price, James

prime ministers.
See
It
ō
Hirobumi; Iwakura Tomomi; Katsura Tar
ō
; Kuroda Kiyotaka; Matsukata Masayoshi; Saionji Kinmochi; Sanj
ō
Sanetomi; Yamagata Aritomo

Privy Council (Korea)

Privy Council (S
ū
mitsu-in)

Prussia

public executions

public libraries

public opinion

public parks

Putiatin, E. V. (vice admiral, Russia)

Pyongyang, Korea

railways: Ky
ō
to–K
ō
be; first tunnel for; Ueno–Takasaki; T
ō
ky
ō
–Ky
ō
to; government ownership of; strike of