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Page numbers for figures and tables are in italics; poem and essay titles without an author’s name are works by Ryūhoku.

Abe Masahiro, 49Account of the Prosperity of Edo (Edo hanjōki;

Terakado Seiken): compared with New Chron-icles, 135–37, 138, 147, 402nn52–53, 402–3n54, 403n82, 404n90; as model for New Chronicles, 132, 135–36, 141, 147, 286; in preface to New Chronicles, 135, 136–37, 138, 240; reaction to, 132–33, 248; use of Literary Sinitic, 133–35, 380n26

Addiss, Stephen, Old Taoist, 10, 372n35agechirei, 380n21, 394n77, 399n140Ainu, 50, 64, 66, 382n38, 385–86n78Aizu domain, 218–20Akagi Sanao, 426n66Akamatsu Renjō, 421n112Akebono shinbun, 293–94, 428n96allusion, in Sinitic poetry, 12–15, 92, 372n43Analects: and democratic principles, 337; in New

Chronicles, 149–50, 151, 404n101; used in com-menting on public affairs, 235, 427n8, 433n91; used in criticism of the press laws, 294–95, 297

An Lushan Rebellion, 109, 397n120, 415n136, 416n5

antiquities, 341, 343Aoki Ginzō, 75, 383n46Aoki Masaru, 110, 397n119Arai Hakuseki, 23, 369n6archery, 116–18, 398n135Ariga, Chieko, 403n83Ariyama Taigo, 146Asaka Gonsai: argued for scholarly eclecticism,

392n55, 400n10; comments on “On the day after the full moon,” 126, 127, 400n10; on con-

sorting with geisha, 123–24; gave Ryūhoku sobriquet Kakudō, 85–86; marginal comments in Kankei shōkō, 56, 86, 378n8, 390n22, 390n34; praised Shibano Ritsuzan’s prose style, 391n42; students of, 123, 383n53; “To show my various students,” 124, 399n2

Asakusa Onmaya-gashi, 375n94; depicted on map, 29

Asano Baidō, 377n4, 383n45Asano Nagayoshi, 197, 218Ashikaga shogunate, 31, 396n108Ashmore, Robert, 16“At the first of the year, I congratulate the tutor

scholar” (Ōtsuki Bankei), 163–64, 185, 407n148Autumn feelings; ten poems, six recorded [2],

12–15, 18–20, 27“Autumn fields,” 61Awajishima, 226–27Awashima Kangetsu, 214Azuma (Eastern) Bridge, depicted on map, 29

Baba Tatsui, 372n40Backus, Robert, 391n36, 399n4Ballad of the Two Soga (calligraphy scroll), 171,

173, 174“Ballad of the two Soga,” 170–73, 171, 174,

408nn10–11“bamboo branch” ballads, 239, 418n60“bamboo wife,” 190; “Parting from a ‘bamboo

wife’ pillow,” 59, 60, 61banquets, 33, 117, 298; with geisha, 123, 227, 242,

419n78; at Hongmen, 419n69Bashō, Nozarashi kikō, 110

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Battle of Fei River, 113Battle of Hakodate, 200, 214, 225Battle of Toba-Fushimi, 208, 226Battle of Ueno, 220Beal, Samuel, 422n138Beimang Cemetery, 106Benfey, Theodor, Sanskrit-English Dictionary,

260Bian Que, 127, 159, 400n9Bière, Marie, 409n18“bilingual fallacy” (Lurie), 25Bing Ji, 393n69“Biography of the Sumida Recluse,” 37, 205–6,

209–10, 212, 220, 375n93Bismarck, Otto von, 321–22, 347Bitō Jishū, Seiki yohitsu (Superfluous jottings

at the Hall of Tranquil Lodging), 15“Blizzard has continued for days, A,” 302Bo Juyi: “Government Ox,” 392n65; invoked by

Ryūhoku, 17, 148–49, 356; referred to in poem by Kikuchi Sankei, 238; “Song of Lasting Pain” (Chang hen ge), 70, 110, 397n120; “Song of the Lute,” 131; “Song on unforgettable passions,” 148–49

Bo Ya, 181, 404n99Bo Yi, 276boathouses, 123, 130, 143–46, 241, 403n73. See also

pleasure boats book: contrasted with the sword, 33, 38, 42, 66,

74, 82, 121, 166–67, 215, 320; representing scholarly realm, 77, 80–81; and the zither, 81–82, 180–81, 212, 213

Book of Changes, 142–43, 379n16, 387n104, 404–5n108

Book of Documents, 71, 188Book of Rites: in critique of contemporary

affairs, 152, 334; mentioned, 376n99, 379n12, 394n71; mourning references, 44, 380n24, 390n23; “Pitchpot” chapter, 305, 306

Book of the Later Han, 408n6Boshin War, 218, 220, 242Bradstock, Timothy, 20“Bring on the tea,” 93–94“Bring on the wine,” 93–94, 394n76Brownstein, Michael, 5Brunet, Jules, 199“brush talk” (hitsudan), 376–77n105Buddhism: crisis of, 251; defense of, 258–59, 262;

and Indian studies, 259, 262–63; shinbutsu bunri policy, 251, 284–85. See also Higashi Honganji

Buland, Charles, 199, 414n100

Bungaku zasshi, 325bunjin (literati): contrasted with shijin (scholar-

officials), 34, 77, 80, 86–87, 90, 108–10, 112–15, 115–16, 121, 148, 222, 361; ethos of, 77–78, 221; and withdrawal, 108, 175, 180–81

bunmei kaika (civilization and enlightenment): analysis of the phrase, 278, 350, 424n28, 430–31n50; critique of, in New Chronicles, 242–45, 273, 277–78; literature and, 278–79, 281–83; newspapers and, 423n4; Ryūhoku’s critique of, 196, 317, 331–33, 341, 343, 349–50, 429n24, 430–31n50. See also modernization

Bunmei shinshi, 325Bunmei yoin, 408n10bunshi (gentlemen of letters), 80. See also bunjin

(literati)Byakkotai (White Tiger Brigade), 218

Cachon, Mermet de, 197Cai Yi, 374n76calligraphy: Ballad of the Two Soga (scroll), 171,

173, 174; frontispiece for Sugita Gentan’s Ken-zengaku, 409n15; of Seki Sekkō, 56, 95, 96, 385n55, 418n62

Campbell, Robert, 238, 385n55Cang Gong, 127, 159, 400n9cavalry service, 117, 196–205, 201, 205–6, 414n99Cayla, J. M., Jésuites hors la loi, 262censorship: of New Chronicles, 399n3; of playful

writings, 133, 402n38; of Terakado Seiken’s Account of the Prosperity of Edo, 132–33. See also Defamation Law; press laws

Chambers’s Encyclopœdia, 432n76Chanoine, Charles, 199–200, 203, 206–7, 209,

215; letter from Ryūhoku, 206, 207Chaofu (“Nestdweller”), 91, 392n60Chaves, Jonathan, Old Taoist, 10, 372n35Chen Jie, 377n105Chen Manshou, 274n76Chen Sheng (aka Chen She), 100Cheng brothers, 398n130cherry blossoms, 104–5, 123, 161, 202, 379n14,

396n92, 434n29Chinese dynastic histories, 30, 289–90Chinese literati, 232, 418nn43–44Chinpu kango column, 281, 283Chōmeiji, 434n32; depicted on map, 29Chōshū, samurai from, 236, 237, 318Chōya shinbun: audience of, 271–72; Chinpu

kango columns, 281, 283; and competing demands on Ryūhoku’s time, 328–29; con-tributions by Chinese poets, 280, 424n36;

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coastal defenses, 41, 67, 116–17coin collecting, 185–88, 187, 231, 411nn51,53–54“Cold cloud,” 394n72Collège Franco-Japonais (Yokohama Furansugo

Denshūjo), 197, 413–14n92commerce and industry, 339–40, 431n65. See also

foreign trade“Composed on behalf of the geisha Ofuji to dispel

the scorn,” 193Confucian classics: allusions to, 92; appropriate

use of, 101; bestowed upon Nobuyuki, 30; cen-tral to Ryūhoku’s world, 82–84; and demo-cratic principles, 337; enumeration of, 376n99; irreverent use of, 124, 142–43, 149–50, 151; and the press laws, 359; study of, 5, 82, 86, 162, 390n25; used to critique contemporary affairs, 152, 333–34. See also Analects; Book of Rites; Classic of Changes; Classic of Documents; Classic of Poetry; Doctrine of the Mean; Men-cius; Spring and Autumn Annals

Confucianism, 89, 185–86, 263, 321, 400n10Confucian scholars, 42, 90, 114–15, 124, 167,

392n55, 399n4. See also Confucianism; Haya-shi family scholars; shijin (scholar-officials); Shōheizaka Academy

Confucius: death of, 40–41, 379nn12–13; on edit-ing the Spring and Autumn Annals, 277; on knowing one’s station, 388n106; on loyalty and filiality, 408n6; reference to, in New Chronicles, 142

Constitutional Imperial Party (Rikken Teiseitō), 351, 433nn93–94

Constitutional Progressive Reform Party (Rikken Kaishintō), 351

Cornell University Library, Maeda Bunko, 381n30

courtesans: in Dumas’s La dame aux camélias, 266; Nanjing, 132; Suzhou, 418n61. See also geisha

court poetry, 152–54, 325–26, 404n103cranes, 110–11, 198, 299, 346, 397–98n121,

398n122, 432n79criminal cases: case of Marie Bière, 409n18;

Western texts on, 176–77cultural heritage, 341–43. See also preservation“Curse in the Hour of the Ox,” 101

daigashi (Ch. tihuashi; poem on the topic of a painting), 108–9, 110, 112–13, 114, 397n119

La dame aux camélias (Dumas), 266, 423n3Daoism, 46, 297, 299, 320, 346, 400n10Darwin, Charles, 258

coverage of Satsuma Rebellion, 312–14, 428nn3–4; and the creation of a public of kanshibun readers, 311, 358; criticism of Meiji policies, 268, 277–78, 426n60; decline of, 312, 314; diary of press law interrogations, 297; employed Katsuragawa Hoshū, 161, 406n134; founding of, 268, 269–70, 354, 423n14; Ginza location of, 312, 316, 428n8; inaugural edition, 271, 424n19; literary orientation of, 283–84; name-changing commemoration, 298, 426n66; name of, 270, 271; as ōshinbun, 272–73; as poetry forum, 4, 35, 269, 278–81, 283, 302–4, 360, 429n22, 434n25; and the press laws, 269, 288–91, 289–95, 300–301, 315, 322; reader contributions, 303–4, 305–7, 360; in Ryūhoku’s career, 2, 247; Ryūhoku’s columns and essays for, 266, 282–83, 423n5; and Ryū-hoku’s legacy, 356–57; Ryūhoku’s positions at, 262, 268, 270, 271, 322–23, 328, 423n14; suc-cess of, 283–84, 295, 298, 312, 314–15, 425n45, 426n62, 426n66, 427n89; Suehiro Tetchō and, 300–301; and “uselessness,” 249, 281–82; zatsu-roku columns, 35, 269, 279–80, 284, 315, 326, 423n11, 429n30, 432n85. See also zatsuroku columns

Christemeijer, Jan Bastiaan, 409n16Christianity, 251, 252, 253–55, 258, 262, 263, 410n41chrysanthemums, 13, 16–17, 151, 360, 367; “A

record of chrysanthemum viewing” (column), 361. See also Pine and Chrysanthemum Cottage

Chu ci (Qu Yuan), 275–76, 286. See also Qu YuanChunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals), 277, 359Chunyu Kun, 358–59“civilization and enlightenment.” See bunmei

kaikaClarke, James Freeman, Ten Great Religions,

260–62classical Chinese. See Literary SiniticClassic of Changes, 142–43, 379n16, 387n104,

404–5n108Classic of Documents, 71, 188Classic of Poetry: “black and brown bear” por-

tents, 153, 165; “Great Preface,” 145, 411n48; on knowing one’s station, 388n106; phoenix references, 154, 158; phrase used in appeal to Bankei, 424n19; and the press laws, 359; refer-enced in poems, 84, 101, 124, 153–54, 389n11, 390nn19,20,22, 414n95; and the Sorai school, 391n39; “stones from other hills,” 185, 321, 351, 360, 411n48, 429n24; study group, 82; used by Hayashi Fukusai to criticize student, 407n142

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Dong Zhongshu, “Three Disquisitions on Heaven and Man,” 400n8

Dongfang Shuo, 358–59Drake, Charles, 182, 410n40drinking, 13, 123, 129, 159, 163, 401n29, 407n145Drouyn de Lhuys, Edouard, 199Du Fu (Shaoling): aspiration for official position,

119; “Autumn Feelings” (Qiu xing), 97, 395n85; characterization of Li Bo, 397n117; invoked by Ryūhoku, 17; octave in praise of Gu Zhi, 158–59; “Song of the Eight Immortals of Drunken-ness,” 70; “Twenty-two rhymes reverentially sent to Left Aide Wei,” 407n148

Du Mu (Fanchuan): invoked by Ryūhoku, 17, 130–31, 229; invoked by Yu Huai, 240–41; “Reading a collection of Han Yu and Du Fu,” 390n20; “Red Cliff,” 130, 401n27; use of the term fengliu, 404n91; verse inspired by, 279; Yangzhou dream, 130, 241

Dubousquet, M., 199–200Dutch, relations with, 50, 52–53, 118Dutch studies, 159–61, 162–63, 406nn129,131,133

“Early summer,” 61earthquakes, 107–8; “Earthquake song,” 107Edo (Tokyo): as center versus periphery, 228;

after collapse of the Tokugawa, 217–18; French military training program, 203–5; renamed Tokyo, 217; skirmishes of 1868, 218

Edo Castle, 42, 49, 53, 84, 147; depicted on map, 29; poems about, 67, 153, 154, 165. See also Tokugawa shogunate

Edo genzai kōeki shoka jinmeiroku, 383n51Edo hanjōki. See Account of the Prosperity of Edo Edo meibutsushi (Poems about Edo’s famous

products), 388n110education and scholarship, essays on, 331–34Egawa Kunpei, 418n43Egawa Tarōzaemon, 68, 70, 387n94Eigosen (English vocabulary notes), 243–44,

419n74Eiri chōya shinbun (Illustrated national news-

paper), 272, 329–30Eitai (Eternal) Bridge, depicted on map, 29Endless Ivy (Itsumadegusa): account of Ryū-

hoku’s promotion, 197–98; as collaborative work, 188–89, 190, 192, 412n65; as diversion for scholars, 175, 189–90, 195–96; discussed by Maeda Ai, 192–93; poems in, 190, 198, 414n95, 414n100; punning in, 190–92, 243, 412n74; Ryūhoku’s description of, 190; title of, 189; use of English terms in, 192, 412n71

“Dawn view at a lakeside mansion,” 61Defamation Law, 288, 289, 300–301, 312, 348,

427n72. See also press lawsDejima, 50Dekinei sōdan, 315, 326–28, 328–29, 331–34,

432n89democracy. See popular rightsDenecke, Wiebke, 21–22, 374n70,374n81“Departing Tenpōzan,” 229–30Descharmes, Augustin, 199, 200, 414nn106–7diaries: coding used in, 55–56, 129, 383n49, 400–

401n19; content of, 48–49; at Cornell Univer-sity’s Maeda Bunko, 381n30; entries on excur-sions to Yanagibashi, 130; entries on Perry’s mission, 49, 50–51, 53, 70–71, 382n39, 383n46, 386n89; entries on poetry gatherings, 55, 59; entries on Ryūhoku’s marriage, 74–75; entry on Funabashi Seitan’s death, 383n54; format of, 48; on instruction of Iemochi, 121–23; Ken-hoku nichiroku, 47–49, 49, 381nn30–31; listing of Noh performances, 396n108; from the Ōta barracks, 414n100; postdismissal, 180–82, 381n30; on Ryūhoku’s daily routine, 389n18; on Townsend Harris visit, 118–19; use of En glish and alternate calendars, 188; use of ketsuji in, 388n105. See also Diary of a Journey to Bitchū; Diary of a Journey to the West; travelogues

Diary. See Diary of a Journey to the WestDiary of a Journey to Bitchū (Kōbi nikki): focus

on the act of inscription, 231; on local geisha districts, 228–29; and Ryūhoku’s knowledge of the West, 225; satirical comments about fashions and practices, 237–38; scenic beauty in, 229–31; serialization in Kagetsu shinshi, 323–24, 417n17; travel for, 224–31; writing style of, 232, 233

Diary of a Journey to the West (Kōsei nichijō): accounts of public performances, 266; on acquaintance with Rosny, 256, 259; appeared in Kagetsu shinshi, 323–24; on covertness of journey, 253; kanshi in, 37, 246–47; mentioned in Mori Ōgai novella, 430n35; overview of, 246–47, 420n87; on publishing activities, 256, 262; “useless man” in, 250. See also Higashi Honganji, world tour

“Diary of one ‘thrown an idle empty post’” (Tōkan nichiroku), 180–82, 381n30

Doctrine of the Mean, 76, 102, 347Doeff, Hendrik, 406n133Doeff-Halma lexicon, 406n133Dong Hu, 305

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Fujiwara Teika, 376n100Fukuchi Ōchi (Gen’ichirō): advocated gradual

reform, 344, 351, 432n77; attended Ryūhoku’s funeral, 433n1; listed in Leading Men of Japan, 1; and the Nichi nichi, 289, 313; on Noh perfor-mance, 431–32n72; studied Western subjects, 407n142

Fukuda Kodōjin, 10Fukuzawa Yukichi: attended Ryūhoku’s funeral,

433n1; composed Sinitic doggerel, 194, 413n80; Conditions in the West, 419n77; contrasted with Ryūhoku, 195; and the Katsuragawa salon, 194; and Léon de Rosny, 258, 261, 421n133; listed in Leading Men of Japan, 1; Outline of a The-ory of Civilization, 413n82; promoted bunmei kaika, 196; relationship with Ryūhoku, 192–93, 413n82; on Ryūhoku’s interest in coin col-lecting, 185–86; studiousness of, 193–94, 412–13n77; travel abroad, 411n57

Funabashi Gyokkei, 97, 232, 246, 260, 383n54, 418n45

Funabashi Seitan: attended poetry gatherings, 55–56, 97, 383n54, 385n68, 418n45; collaboration with Seki Sekkō, 56, 384nn56–57; comments in Kankei shōkō, 56, 378n8, 390nn21–22; com-ments on “An image of Su Wu eating snow,” 62; comments on “On the day after the full moon,” 126; death of, 383n54, 384n59; as poet and calligrapher, 383n53, 384n56

Furukawa Koshōken, 385–86n78fūryū (Ch. fengliu): aesthetics of, 324; aspect of

Ryūhoku, 316; as freedom, 349, 351; quatrain celebrating, 221; Ryūhoku’s role as, 128, 131, 297, 312, 426n64; world of, in New Chronicles, 147–49, 324, 404n91

fuseji, 304–7, 311, 427n83, 431n50Futakida Nozomu, Kihei renpei no gazu (Image

of cavalry training), 201

Gakken Bunko, 56, 57Gamō Kunpei, 350, 433n91Ganghwa-do Incident (1875), 298, 300Gaozi, 141–42Gateless Gate, The, 429n24Ge Hong, Shen xian zhuan, 390n20, 408n152geisha: Asaka Gonsai’s admonition on, 124;

assigned representative flowers, 161, 406n135; Confucian scholars and, 124, 399n4; puns on the names of, 129, 130, 190–93, 412n67; Ryūhoku’s encounters with, 34, 123, 129–30; and Ryūhoku’s legacy, 355; in Tokyo compared with Kansai, 227, 228–29; voice of, in essays,

end-rhyme, 18–19English language study, 182, 195, 256, 410n38;

episode in New Chronicles, 243–44, 419n75; by Yasuda Unpeki, 182–83

Enomoto Takeaki, 1, 218, 225, 226, 433n1Ernest Maltravers (Edward Bulwer-Lytton),

423n5, 430n47Etō Shinpei, 253–55“Evaluation of the Twenty-Four Flowers of

Yanagibashi” (with Yanagawa Shunsan), 161, 162, 406n135

“Evening cool by the waterside,” 61Ezo, 62–63, 218, 385n74,385n77. See also Yaguchi

Kensai (Seizaburō)

falconry, 72–73, 117Fan Chengda, 394n74Fan Ran (Shiyun), 106, 397n112Fan Su, 148Fan Zeng, 242, 419n69“Feeling my emotions,” 181feng poetry, 411n48filial piety, 117, 172, 390n21, 408nn5–6, 417n12Fillmore, Millard, 40, 50“Fine spring day at a pondside pavilion, A,”

53–55, 61; Ryūhoku’s poem, 55; Seki Sekkō’s poem, 57

“Flowering grain in a vase,” 61“Flute on a desolate night, A,” 385n71foreign ships, 50–53, 382n43, 387n102, 399n6.

See also Perry, Matthewforeign threat, 40–43, 53, 63, 67, 111–12, 117–18,

125, 157foreign trade, 40, 50–53, 118, 382n41, 399n6freedom, 349, 350; of the press, 293, 328; of reli-

gion, 337–38. See also popular rightsFreedom and Popular Rights Movement, 349,

351, 433n93French military advisory programs, 196–97,

199–200, 203–5, 415n113“Frosty dawn,” 61Fuchū, 217, 416n1. See also ShizuokaFūgetsudō company, 339fuhei shizoku uprisings, 313, 318–19. See also

Satsuma RebellionFujimori Kōan: Kaibō biron (Argument for

the preparation of naval defenses), 383n45; residence of, 79

Fujisawa Shima-no-Kami, 194, 202Fujiwara no Kintō, Wakan rōeishū (Japanese

and Chinese poems to sing), 373–74n66Fujiwara Shunzei, 104, 105

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hanjōkimono (chronicles of urban life), 132–37, 237, 239, 245, 248

Han shu, 392n61, 393n66; biography of Zhu Yun, 71–72

Harada Kazumichi, 421n117Haraguchi Nanson, 303Hare, Thomas, 396n107Harris, Townsend, 118–19Haruta Kyūkō, 407n137Hata (daughter of Ryūhoku), 159–61, 210, 406n128Hattori Bushō, New Account of the Prosperity

of Tokyo, 134, 402n40Hattori Hazan, 395n83Hattori Nankaku, 376n97Hattori Rakuzan, 395n83hawks, 66, 72–73Hayashi Eriko, “Narushima Ryūhoku no tsuma”

(The wife of Narushima Ryūhoku), 401n20Hayashi Fukusai, 119, 386n89, 407n142. See also

Hayashi family scholarsHayashi Gakusai, 394n72Hayashi Jussai, 133Hayashi Kinpō, 87Hayashi Razan, 85, 379n20Hayashi Teiu, 133Hayashi family scholars: and censorship of play-

ful writings, 133, 402n38; and editing of Toku-gawa jikki, 85, 376n101, 386n89; interactions with foreign visitors, 119; poetry gathering of, 34, 85–86, 88–93, 155, 392n58, 393n68, 394n74; provided lectures to the shogun, 376n98; served as rectors of academy, 87, 88, 392n55. See also Shōheizaka Academy

He Liangjun, Shishuo xinyu bu, 397n121He Zhizhang, 397n117Heian emperor, 33heishutsu, 398n138, 410n33. See also ketsuji, taitō“Hekiekifu” (Poetic exposition on shrinking in

fear), 295–97, 298–300, 426n64hentai kanbun (variant kanbun), 274n75Hepburn, James, 253, 382n40heyun. See rhyme matchingHideyoshi, 226, 299Higashi Honganji: activities to defend Bud-

dhism, 252; Asakusa branch temple, 246, 247, 252; branches in China and Korea, 252; missionary work in Hokkaido, 252, 420n102; Shinshū Tōha Gakujuku, 246, 266, 419nn83–84; Translation Office, 35, 247, 252, 256, 259–62, 265, 266, 422n141, 422n146; world tour, 35, 246, 251–55, 256–60, 420nn109–10. See also Gennyo, Abbot

geisha (continued) 242–44, 294, 298, 345; of Yoshiwara and Yana-gibashi, 141, 145–47. See also Endless Ivy; New Chronicles of Yanagibashi; Ochō; Yanagibashi pleasure quarters

genbun-itchi movement, 5Gennyo, Abbot, 251–52, 253, 254, 259, 422n143.

See also Higashi HonganjiGenrōin, 366geography, 182, 188, 195, 410n40Gesshō, 221“Getting out my feelings,” 130gikun (playful glosses), 134, 144, 399n3, 402n42Gion Nankai, 99, 100Girls’ Day (hina-matsuri), 350glosses. See gikun (playful glosses)“Gods of fortune, The” (Yomiuri column),

330–31Gokunaibanashi (Super secret tales from the

slammer), 307–8, 427n89Gokyū Sessō, 423n14Gong Shenfu, 232, 418n43Gong Sui, 92, 393n66Gonnyo (abbot), 253, 420n107Go-Shirakawa, 408n5Gou Bian, 177, 178governmental reform, 344–47, 432n77Grant, Ulysses S., 329, 430n41Greater Learning, 73, 147, 388n106, 404n86,

404n89Gu Zhi, 158–59, 406n124Guizot, François, History of Civilization in

Europe, 424n33Guo Ziyi, 415n136gushi (old-style poems), 18, 104, 373n59

Haga Yaichi, 6–7, 371n24Hagi Rebellion, 313, 318Hagura Kandō, 94, 160, 394n77; residence of, 79,

394n77haibutsu kishaku (expel the Buddha and crush

Shakyamuni), 251, 284haikai style, 101, 396n97hairstyles, 227, 236, 243, 274Hakodate, 67, 413n91; Battle of, 200, 214, 225Hakone, 215, 267, 363, 429n30Hakuōsha (White Gull Society), 433n6Halma, François, 406n133Han Xin, 216, 416n150, 424n22Han Yu: “An Explication of ‘Progress in Learn-

ing,’” 180, 181; “Fu studies south of the city,” 392n51; poetry of, 390n20

i n d e x 469

Ieyasu (first shogun), 217, 379n20“I hear that women of the city have been prohib-

ited,” 152Ii Naosuke, 382n41Ikaho, 365illness, poems on, 73–74“Image of fighting cocks, An,” 378n6“Image of Li Bo gazing at the waterfall, An,”

108–10, 397n117“Image of Lin Bu looking at his plum blossoms,

An,” 110–11“Image of playing a zither under the moon, An,”

150–51“Image of Saigyō gazing at the peak, An,” 102–3,

108“Image of Su Wu eating snow, An,” 59, 61–62, 61,

385n72“Image of Tadanori lodging under a cherry tree,

An,” 103–5“Image of tending oxen, An,” 91–92, 393n68“Image of the phoenix singing on a high ridge,

An,” 154–55Imaizumi Genkichi, 161, 198Imaizumi Mine, 412n77Imamura Eitarō, 316Imamura Warō, 257, 422n134imin (leftover vassals), 114, 357–58, 361Imperial Loyalist Party (Kin’ōtō), 350–51Indian studies, 259, 262–63. See also Sanskritindustry. See commerce and industry“In mid-autumn of the fourth year of the cycle,”

202–3inmoku. See rhyme groupsInoue Kowashi, 301intellectuals. See bunjin (literati); Confucian

scholars; shijin (scholar-officials)“In the fifth month . . . Oda Fusano[suke] died

in battle,” 220introspection, 222–23Inui Teruo: analysis of Ryūhoku’s diary, 129, 159,

398n18; on Diary of a Journey to Bitchū, 229, 231; mentioned, 399n143; on Ryūhoku and cultural heritage, 341–42; on Ryūhoku’s circle of Western scholars, 195; on Ryūhoku’s defense of Yoshinobu, 209; and Ryūhoku’s late essays, 315–16; on Ryūhoku’s study of Confucian clas-sics, 390n25; table of Ryūhoku’s poetry gather-ings, 395n83; on “uselessness,” 251

Inukai Tsuyoshi, 313Irie Fumio, 421n117, 422n134Iritani Sensuke, 10Ise Shrine, 267

hina-matsuri (Girls’ Day), 350Hino Tatsuo: on Bo Juyi poem, 148–49; kanbun-

teki bunshoku (Literary Sinitic embellish-ment), 380n26; kundoku readings by, 27; on the last years of Ryūhoku’s career, 315; men-tioned, 412n67; on Ōnuma Chinzan, 156, 157, 405n118; on Ryūhoku’s Aizu poem, 219; on Ryūhoku’s circle of Western scholars, 195

Hinoya sundries shop, 388n110Hirose Kyokusō, 252, 396n98Hirose Seison, 375n93Hitomi (geisha), 401n19Hōgen monogatari, 408n5Hokkaido, 347; Higashi Honganji mission, 252,

420n102. See also EzoHokokusha (Preserve the Nation Society),

334–35Hokuriku, 268, 423n10Hong Xiao, 238Hongmen, banquet at, 419n69Honpōji temple, 353Horiguchi Ikuo, 386n87Horikawa Kyōa, 421n112Horio Junko, 137, 146, 403n82Huan, Duke of Qi, 92, 392n61Huang Chuping, 167, 407–8n152Huang Zunxian, 13Huangfu Mi, Gaoshi zhuan, 92huazan (inscriptions on paintings), 397n119Huffman, James, 311, 427n89“hundred schools,” 89, 90hunting expeditions, 72–73, 116–17Hyakunin isshu (One hundred poems by one

hundred poets), 227

Ibi Takashi, 279–80, 381n30Ichikawa Kansai, 99, 396nn92–93Ieharu (tenth shogun), 30Iemitsu (third shogun), 179Iemochi (fourteenth shogun): heir to, 154;

instructed by Ryūhoku, 121–23, 176–77, 185, 409n19; marriage to the emperor’s sister, 169; visit to the imperial house, 410nn26–27

Ienari (eleventh shogun), 30Iesada (thirteenth shogun): death of, 121; fal-

conry expedition with, 72–73; inspection tours of, 68, 387n90; lack of male heir, 154; lectured by Kobayashi, 82; received Consul Townsend Harris, 118–19; tutored by Ryū-hoku, 37, 119

Iesato (Tokugawa successor), 217Ieshige (ninth shogun), 30

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ka (Japanese-language poetry), 4kabuki, 227, 228Kagetsu shinshi (New journal of blossoms and

the moon): contrasted with other literary journals, 325–26; in conversation with other periodicals, 325, 328; essay on antiquities, 341; inaugural issue, 324; as outgrowth of Chōya shinbun literary columns, 279, 323–25, 424n30, 430n36; place in Ryūhoku’s career, 247, 312, 315; poems from, 377n3; readers of, 4, 326, 415n125, 430n35; serializations, 176, 423n8; title of, 324; travelogues in, 417n21

Kagoshima. See Satsuma domainKaibara Ekiken, 417n28Kaifūsō, 23Kaigai hōkan ryaku (Abbreviated reference of

foreign coins), 411n53Kaigai kahei shōfu (An album of overseas coins),

187. See also coin collectingKaikeiroku (Coastal defense records; Narushima

Kadō), 41, 42–43, 379nn16–17Kaitai shinsho, 161, 162, 406n132kakikudashibun, 374n83. See also kundoku read-

ing methodKamatani Takeshi, 372n51Kamei Nanmei, 399n4Kameido, 46, 380n27, 381n28Kamigata, 228kan (prefix meaning Sinitic), 4Kanagawa, 182–83. See also Treaty of KanagawaKanbe Yoshimitsu, 246kanbun (“Sinitic prose”): censorship of texts in,

133; instruction and textbooks, 5–6, 370n18; pure and variant, 274n75; use of the term, 4, 9. See also kanshibun

kanbungaku (“Sinitic literature”), 6–7, 8–9. See also kanshibun

kanbun gesaku (playful writings in Literary Sinitic), 133–35, 291, 402n37

kanbun sharebon (books of mode written in Literary Sinitic), 133

kanbunteki bunshoku (Literary Sinitic embel-lishment), 380n26

Kanda Takahira: attended Ryūhoku’s funeral, 433n1; contributions to Endless Ivy, 189, 193–94; helped Ryūhoku with English study, 182; member of Ryūhoku’s social circle, 161, 188; translation of Record of Holland’s Beautiful Government, 176, 409n13

Kanda River, 122Kan’eiji Temple, 209, 220; depicted on map, 29

Ishikawa Fusakane, 232Ishikawa Iwao, 236–37Ishikawa Shuntai: career of, 252, 420n105;

encounters with Rosny, 258–59; participated in world tour, 251, 253, 254, 255; removal of, 422n141; and Sanskrit study, 422n143; and the Translation Office, 260, 422n141

Itō Genboku, 160, 406n126Itō Hirobumi, 1, 347Itō Jakuchū, 13Itokuri River, 234Itsumadegusa. See Endless IvyIwabuchi, Koichi, 8, 371n27Iwakura Tomomi, 1. See also Iwakura MissionIwakura Mission: account by Kume Kunitake,

88, 391n49; contrasted with Higashi Honganji tour, 35, 249–50, 250, 251, 255, 256, 420n95; mentioned, 421n117

Iwamatsu Tōsai (Tōjūrō), 55–56, 97, 383n51, 395n82

Iwamura Warō, 257Iwanami Shoten, 9–10, 27, 315, 371n32Izawa Heikurō, 129, 383n46, 400n17Izekawa Ichirō, 388n3Izumi Saburō, 250

Japanese literary canon, 9–10“Japanese odor,” 8, 371n27Japan Weekly Mail shipping report, 254Jia Yi, 127, 398n133Jin dynasty, fall of, 113–14Jingikan (Department of Shinto), 252Jin shu (History of the Jin), 148, 216, 398n127jintishi (poems in the modern form), 18, 19–20,

373n59Jiyūtō (Liberal Party), 351jizishi (poems of gathered graphs), 97–98, 395n88Jōsō yūki (Record of a journey to Hitachi and

Shimōsa), 232–35journalism: as alternative role for Ryūhoku,

213, 357–58, 366; and hanjōkimono, 248; role in society, 257, 320, 356, 359, 366; Ryūhoku’s career in, 2, 214, 247–48, 354, 356–57, 263. See also “newspaperman,” identity of; newspapers

Judgment of the Actress Marie Bière, The (Joyū Mari Bieru no shinpan), 409n18

jueju (broken verse), 18Julien, Stanislas, 421n124“Just for fun, I make a poem calendar,” 95,

394–95n80

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Katō Kiyomasa, 299“Katsuo” (Uemura Roshū), 99–100, 396n93,

396n96Katsuragawa Hoshū: and Endless Ivy, 190,

412n66; friendship with, 170, 173, 408n11; held party to celebrate Ryūhoku’s promotion, 197–98, 414n94; invited to house-warming party for Ōcho, 164; mentioned, 384n60, 406n136, 411n57; Oranda jii (Lexicon of Hol-land), 406n133; pharmacy business with, 214; physician and scholar of Dutch, 161, 406n131; poem inscribed to, 170, 171, 173, 408n3; time spent with during confinement, 35, 173, 188, 193; Zuishin kanzu (Vade mecum), 197, 414n94. See also Katsuragawa salon

Katsuragawa salon, 161, 163, 170, 175, 183, 194, 408n11. See also Katsuragawa Hoshū; Yasuda Jirōkichi (Unpeki)

Kawada Ōkō, 324, 424n33Kawakami Taigorō, 415n134. See also Narushima

NobukaneKawano Eijirō, 414n100Kawazu Sukeyasu, 170Kazunomiya (emperor’s sister), 169Keene, Donald, 10–11, 12, 20, 156Keibyō ippan (A glimpse of the capital’s cats),

268, 404n84, 423n8keigi (classical exegesis), 87. See also Confucian

classicsKeiō University, 331Kenbu Shuppan, 371n32Ken’en school, 381n29. See also Ogyū SoraiKenhoku nichiroku, 47–48, 381nn30–31; first

page of, 49ketsuji (blank spaces), 388n105. See also heishutsu,

taitōKhitan, 111Kido Takayoshi, 1, 255, 421n112Kikuchi Dairoku, 282, 425n41Kikuchi Gozan, 384–85n55, 405n114; Gozandō

shiwa (Gozandō’s talks on poetry), 279–80Kikuchi Sankei: collaborated on Kagetsu shinshi,

323, 324, 326; comments on “An image of Lin Bu looking at his plum blossoms,” 398n125; comments on “An image of Taira Tadanori,” 105; comments on “An image of tending oxen,” 92, 393n68, 394n71; comments on “Ninth day of the fifth month, excursion to Kanagawa-dai,” 411n44; exchange of poems with, 233–34; poems for New Chronicles, 238–39; praise of court poem, 154; preface to Ryūhoku’s coin

Kaneko Sakō, 56, 97, 384n58; residence of, 79, 395n84

Kangakuha (Official Scholar Faction), 390n32. See also Shōheizaka Academy

Kankei shōkō (Little manuscript composed by cold lamplight): manuscript of, 38–39, 121, 378n6; marginal comments in, 39, 378n8; mar-tial imagery in, 41–42; meaning of the title, 38, 48, 377n4; New Year poems, 39–41, 43–46, 45; poems from poetry gatherings, 59, 61; poems on foreign ships, 51–52; poems selected for Ryūhoku shishō, 96; revisions to, 43–44, 45, 125–27, 126, 378n7, 378–79n9, 380n22, 390n22; as rich source for studying kanshi, 39; terms referring to the shogun in, 387n93

Kanō Ryū: children with, 120, 397n114; divorce of, 120, 399n144; marriage to, 74, 105, 388n108; reference to, in poem, 106

Kanō Tōsen (Nakanobu), 388n108Kansei Reforms, 3, 86–87, 391n36kanshi (“Sinitic poems”): adaptability of, 10;

allusion in, 12–15, 92, 372n43; decline in qual-ity of, 372n43; domestication of, 44–46; in Edo period, 369n6; English equivalent of, 20–22, 23, 373n63; formal features of, 17–20, 26, 58, 384–85n64, 390n23; guides to compos-ing, 99, 100, 101; by Japanese women, 3, 369n7; Library of Congress subject heading for, 8–9; as means of self-expression, 11–12; publications, 6, 35, 38–39, 112, 280, 371n32, 377n3; shift away from, 5, 281, 370nn13–14; use of the term, 4, 9, 20–21, 370nn9–11, 374n67. See also Kankei shōkō; kanshibun; kyōshi; Literary Sinitic; poetry journals; regulated verse; rhyme groups; Ryūhoku shishō

kanshibun: Chinese scholarship on, 372n34; as Chinese versus Japanese, 7–8, 21–23, 25–26; English equivalent of, 20, 21–22; and national literature, 4–7, 9–10, 371n25; use of the term, 4; viewed as obsolete, 10–11, 372n35; Western studies of, 10. See also kanshi; kanbun; Liter-ary Sinitic

Kant, Immanuel, 412n71Karafuto, 63, 385n76. See also Suzuki ShigehisaKaratani Kōjin, 4Karyū shunwa (Ernest Maltravers), 423n5,

430n47Kasahara Kenju, 259Kashiwagi Jotei, 99, 380n26, 396n92Kataoka Takaaki, 260Katei sōdan, 325

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Kudō Suketsune, 170–72Kume Kunitake, 88, 391n49kundoku reading method: applied to English

and European languages, 24, 374–75n84; approach to reading Literary Sinitic, 23–24, 374n81; Lurie on, 25, 26, 375n85; variations in, 27–28; and zatsuroku columns, 269

Kurimoto Joun, 196–97, 199, 256, 257, 276, 286, 413n88

Kurimoto Teijirō, 257, 261Kuroda Kiyotaka, 1Kusakabe Meikaku, 433n5Kusunoki Masahige, 351Kusuyama Kōsaburō, 197, 265–66, 376n95,

422–23n2Kusuyama Masao, 422–23n2Kyōbushō (Ministry of Religious Affairs), 252,

253, 420n103kyōshi (“crazy poems”), 22, 133, 179, 193, 228,

274n75, 402n36, 409n25Kyoto, 47, 268, 313, 317, 363, 429n30; shogunate

and, 179, 205, 208, 209, 410n27Kyoto University, 27kyūshinshugi (rapid-progressivism), 344

Lamarre, Thomas, Uncovering Heian Japan, 371n29

“Lament of the Loincloth,” 273–76, 284, 286, 424n22

“Lament of the Newspaperman,” 276–77, 284, 286“Lament while facing the mirror,” 222–23Land of Huaxu, 90, 392n56Lanman, Charles, Leading Men of Japan, 1–2,

4, 6, 356–57, 434n14“Late in autumn, the winds and rain continue

for days without end,” 74“Late spring,” 82Leading Men of Japan (Charles Lanman), 1–2,

4, 6, 356–57, 434n14“Leaving Edo Castle in the evening,” 67, 386n88Legge, James, 256; Zhihuan qimeng (Graduated

reading), 410n38“Leisurely chant,” 394n72letters to the editor, 266, 287–88, 288–89, 294,

295, 423n6, 424n27Li Bo: associated with Lu Mountain, 108–9;

“Banquet in the Peach and Pear Garden,” 98; “Bring on the wine,” 394n76; invoked by Ryūhoku, 17; preface to “Peach and Apricot Garden,” 242; reclusion of, 109, 114; “Song of Xiangyang,” 397n117. See also “An image of Li Bo gazing at the waterfall”

Kikuchi Sankei (continued) collecting album, 186, 411n54; as tutor to shogun Iemochi, 233, 418n49. See also Tōkyō shashinkyō (Photographs of Tokyo)

Kim, Kyu Hyun, 311Kimura Ki, 403n58Kimura Yoshitake, 184Kingoku eiri shinbun (Illustrated jailhouse news-

paper), 308, 427n91Kinji hyōron, 325Kin’ōtō (Imperial Loyalist Party), 350–51Kirino Toshiaki, 320Kishida Ginkō, 289Kishida Kandō, 230Kishigami Shikken, 191Kobayashi Bunshi, 363Kobayashi Eitarō, 82Kobayashi Inosuke, 118Kobayashi Seichi, 117Kobayashi Seigo, 415n125Kobayashi Shigeru, 250Kobe, 225, 227Kōbi nikki. See Diary of a Journey to BitchūKōbun tsūshi (Bulletin of official writings), 35,

269–70, 272, 298, 354, 423n15, 426n66. See also Chōya shinbun

Koga domain (Ibaraki), 232–35Koga Ferry, 233Kokatsu (geisha), 129, 130, 162, 400n17Kōkosha, 99, 280, 396nn92–93Kōko shinpō, 325Kōko Shisha poetry circle. See KōkoshaKokubu Seigai, 355, 356, 433n9kokubungaku (national literature), 5, 7kokushi (poetry in the national language), 5,

370n14kokutai (national essence), 5Komatsubara Eitarō, 434n14Komukai village, 431n70Kondō Kishirō, 366Kondō Tokuzan, 16, 372n54Kong cong zi (Kong family masters’ anthology),

177Konno Shinji, 375n89Kōnodai, 379n14Korea, relations with, 50, 298–300, 313, 382n38Kornicki, Peter, 22, 374n71Kōsei nichijō. See Diary of a Journey to the WestKōshi Ehō, 372n47Kou Zhun, 111–12Koyasu Takashi, 330Kubota Keiichi, 388n4

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84; of Tao Yuanming, 15, 16, 17, 113, 114, 212– 13; of Xie An, 148. See also Imperial Loyalist Party

Lu Jia, 64Lu Xiang, 387n95Lu You, “Blizzard Song,” 327n75lunzan (J. ronsan), 242Luo Xuegu, 280Lurie, David, 25–26, 375n85lüshi (regulated verse), 18–20, 46, 58, 373n60Lüshi chunqiu, 404n99

Ma Gu, 83, 390n20Maebara Issei, 318Maeda Ai: on Chōya shinbun, 284; compared

Ryūhoku to Seiken, 137, 402–3n54; contrasted Ryūhoku’s journey with Iwakura Mission, 249–50; on decoding of names in Ryūhoku’s diaries, 129, 400n19, 401n23; discussion of Endless Ivy and Fukuzawa Yukichi, 192–93, 194–95; on the end of Ryūhoku’s career, 312, 315; on history of the Ōta barracks, 414n101; on Kusuyama Kōsaburō, 422–23n2; men-tioned, 116, 132, 161, 179, 270, 337; and Ryū-hoku’s diary, 129–30, 381n30; on Ryūhoku’s resignation from the cavalry, 206; on Ryū-hoku’s use of Yu Huai’s Miscellaneous Records, 237

Maeda Bunko, 381n30Maejima Hisoka, 372n40Maeno Ryōtaku, 162, 406n132Manchu conquest, 62, 132, 139, 237Mann, Robert James, The Book of Health, 409n15Man’yōshū, 17Marceau, Lawrence, 78Marsden, J. B., 262martial imagery, 41–42, 43, 72, 316, 381n34. See

also sword imageryMartin, William A. P., 411n42Marvelous Anecdotes about One Hundred Great

Figures of Our Times, 323Masaoka Shiki, 10, 16Masuda Takashi, 433n1Matsudaira Naritami, 384n60Matsudaira Norikata, 197, 413nn88–89Matsudaira Sadanobu, 86, 391n40Matsumae domain, 63, 64, 72, 382n38, 386n80Matsumoto Hakka, 251, 252, 254, 258, 259, 262,

419n85Matsumoto Jiemon, 28Matsumoto Keidō, 94Matsuo Bashō, 417n28

Li Guang, 204Li Guangbi, 415n136Li He, “Bring on the wine,” 394n76Li Ling, 385n72, 385n73Li Shangyin, 401n27Li Shaoweng, 393n63Li Shixiong, “Ten kinds of desolation on a cold

night,” 62, 385n71Liang Hong, “Wu yi ge,” 127, 400n8Liang Kai, Dongli gaoshi tu, 14Liberal Party (Jiyūtō), 351Library of Congress (United States), 7–9, 371n28Liezi, 90, 392n56, 404n99life insurance, 362, 434n32Lin Bu, 110–12, 114, 397–98n121, 398n122, 398n125“Listening to hail fall,” 61literary gatherings, 291, 424n31. See also poetry

gatheringsliterary journals, 279, 325–26. See also Kagetsu

shinshiLiterary Sinitic: and “brush talks,” 376–77n105;

comparison to Latin, 11, 22, 23, 372n40; criti-cism of washū, 8, 371n26; demotion of, 370n11; embellishment of, 380n26; instruction in, 5–6, 82, 87–88, 92, 391n44; journalism and, 35, 358; and the Kansei Reforms, 3, 86; kundoku read-ing method for, 23–28, 374n81; linguistic play in, 22–23, 133–34; in New Chronicles of Yanagi-bashi, 123, 132–34; used for travelogues, 232–33; use of the term, 369n5; use of the term “Sino-Japanese” for, 20, 21, 22, 374n71; as a written language, 26–27, 369n5. See also kun-doku reading method; Sinitic literature

literature in the bunmei kaika era, 278–79, 281–83, 339

Liu Bang, 419n69Liu Bei, 392n58Liu Chan, 416n5Liu Changqing, 389n17Liu Chen, 416n5Liu Kezhuang, “Ten poems on the old,” 382n34Liu Xun, 92, 393n67Liu Yu (Emperor Wu of the Liu-Song), 114, 361Liu Yuxi, 418n60“Locomotive song,” 68–72, 73, 125Lofgren, Erik, 371n23logographic writing, 25–26loyalty: of Aizu men, 218–20; and filial piety, 172,

408nn5–6; of Li Shixiong, 61; “Loyalist peti-tion,” 432n77; mentioned, 173, 217, 238, 433n91; of Oda Fusanosuke, 220; of Ryūhoku, 115, 273, 275, 286–87, 319, 342, 257; of Su Wu, 62, 65–66,

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Ministry of Religious Affairs (Meiji period), 252, 253, 420n103

miscellaneous essays. See zatsuroku columns“Miscellaneous poems from the fifth month of

the fifth year of the cycle,” 221Mishima Chūshū, 433n5mitate (double vision), 130, 229, 238, 401n25Mito domain, 179Mitsuda Tamenari, 421n112Mitsukuri Shūhei, 161, 188, 261, 411n42,411n57,

425n41Miyanoshita, 363Mizuhara Hitoshi, 404n90Mizumoto Seiichirō, 243–44Mizuno Tadakuni, 133, 380n21, 394n77, 399n140Mizushina Rakutarō, 195, 411n57, 414n100modernization: Ōkubo Toshimichi’s policies,

321; Ryūhoku’s eclectic approach to, 36, 269, 281, 315, 317, 330–35, 360

mokkan, 375n89Le monde illustré, 199Monier-Williams, Monier, Sanskrit Manual, 260Mori Arinori, 1Mori Kainan, 370n8Mori Ōgai: “crazy poems” (kyōshi), 22–23; fond-

ness for Kagetsu shinshi, 326, 430n35; Gan (The wild goose), 430n35; on the term kanshi, 370n10; Vita sexualis, 326; Wixted on, 10, 372n43

Mori Seigo, 376n95, 415n125Mori Shuntō, 279, 280, 302, 370n8; Tōkyō saijin

zekku, 424n33Morishige Hisaya, 415n125Mormonism, 262Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, 435n43Motoyasu Sōtatsu, 406n137Mount Fuji, 102, 108, 277, 396n91, 400–401n19Mount Kankakeyama, 230–31, 417n38, 431n70Mount Lu. See “An image of Li Bo gazing at the

waterfall”Mount Matsuchi, depicted on map, 29Mount Nogeyama, 199Mukōyama Kōson, 279, 414n112, 416n1mulberry: bare, 104, 396n105; fields, 240, 267,

274, 418n66; and hemp, 234, 364Murakami Tetsumi, 77–78, 80Muro Kyūsō, 376n98museums, 251, 341

Nagai (second wife), 129, 397n114, 401n20Nagai Kafū: analysis of Ryūhoku’s diary, 400n13,

400n18; on hanjōkimono, 134; on Kusuyama

Matsuri Ginsha, 280, 424n33Matsuura Takeshirō, 63, 386n79May, Erskine, The Constitutional History of

England, 328“Meeting Takeuchi again,” 42Meiji army, 319–20Meiji emperor, 1, 388n105, 431n65Meiji government: announcement of National

Diet, 347; attempt to recruit Ryūhoku, 218, 246, 247, 249, 357, 419n82; nation-building by, 3; opposition to, in Chōya shinbun, 268, 277–78, 426n60; policy on Korea, 298–300; press restrictions, 35–36; recruitment of former Tokugawa officials, 218; relations with news-papers, 270–71, 424n17; reported on in Tōkyō chinbun (Strange news of Tokyo), 213; service to, 211, 213; shinbutsu bunri policy, 251, 284–85; sponsored Higashi Honganji tour, 35, 253–55; ties with Nishi Honganji, 255, 421n112; vacci-nation policies, 235. See also bunmei kaika; Defamation Law; Iwakura Mission; press laws

Meiji Nippō, 335–36Meiji Restoration: and changes to Yanagibashi,

236–37, 241–42; in exchange of poems with Sankei, 234–35; executions during, 413n87; immediate aftermath of, 35, 364. See also bunmei kaika; Meiji government

Meiji shibun, 279, 325Meinyo, Abbot, 421n112Memorial Service for the Spirit of the News-

paper, 309–11, 312, 428nn94–96Mencius: allusions to, 277, 392n52, 394n71,

403n62; on benevolence and righteousness, 142; and popular rights, 337; and the press laws, 359; on the role of the sovereign’s advi-sors, 164; study of, 390n25; teaching on “great task,” 190

Mengqiu: account of Wang Dao and Xie An, 398n129; episodes from, in Ryūhoku’s poems, 92, 392n61, 393n69, 400n8, 404n99, 408n152; mentioned, 392n62, 393n66

Messelot, M., 199–200military reforms, 41. See also coastal defensesmilitary service, 35, 174, 196–205, 208–9, 215–16,

319–20. See also cavalry serviceMiller, Roy, 23Minagawa Kien, 399n4Minami Teisuke, 422n138Minamoto no Yoritomo, 172, 408n7Minamoto no Yoshitomo, 172, 408n5Ming loyalists, 62. See also Yu HuaiMinistry of Education, 5

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Narushima Nobuyuki (Kinkō): as bunjin, 87, 388–89n4; Daien (A garden of poetic themes), 101; as family head, 31; “A letter prohibiting haikai to my descendants,” 396n97; names of, 405n120; poems to commemorate, 154– 55, 157–58, 164, 404–5n108, 405n119; poetry composition, 101; scholarship of, 30, 376n100; service to the Tokugawa shogunate, 30, 376nn97–98

Narushima Ryūhoku. See RyūhokuNarushima Tomoichi, 211Narushima Yoshimatsu. See Narushima Kadō Narushima family: family home, 31, 375n94,

376n101, 385n65; family pedigree, 397n114; graves, 31; heads, 31, 33, 38; honor, 118; origins, 30; residences, 53, 54, 78, 79, 108, 160, 375n94, 389n5, 389n7, 389n9, 400n15; Ryūhoku’s adopted successors, 210, 415n134; service to the Toku-gawa shogunate, 30–31, 33, 37, 118, 357, 376n95

National Diet, 344–47, 350, 352National Diet Library, 34, 38–39, 378n9, 379n17;

Gakken Bunko, 56, 57national language, 5, 370n14national literature, 4–7, 9, 370n11, 371n25Natsume Sōseki, Kusamakura (The Three-

Cornered World), 16–17Nelson, Susan, 13New Chronicles of Yanagibashi (Ryūkyō shinshi),

34; afterword by Yanagawa Shunsan, 161; allusion to Xie An, 148–49, 175, 178, 354; cen-sorship of, 399n3; commented on by Qing journalist, 402n40; compared to a newspaper, 214, 248, 325; compared with Terakado Sei-ken’s Account, 135–37, 138, 147, 402nn52–53, 402–3n54, 403n82, 404n90; compared with Yu Huai’s Miscellaneous Records, 132, 136, 138–40, 240–41, 245; critical spirit in, 242, 245, 249, 286; criticism of, 138, 403n57, 403n58; descrip-tions of boathouses, 130, 143–45; editions of, 6, 371n21; first and second volumes contrasted, 138, 236–38, 241–42, 245, 403n57; first volume of, 123–24, 128, 138–51, 399n3, 400n13; geisha in, 129, 144–46, 241–42, 244, 294, 419n78; and the hanjōkimono genre, 132, 237, 239, 245; indebted to Terakado Seiken’s Account, 132, 135–36, 141, 147, 286; jabs at the social elite, 146–47; mentioned, 37, 97, 403n83; narration of, 136–37, 138, 139–47, 149, 240; passage for spring, 149; popularity of, 6; preface to, 135– 37, 146; prefatory material in second volume, 238–41, 275; and Ryūhoku’s career as a jour-nalist, 137, 247–48, 256, 273; satire in, 34, 132,

Kōsaburō, 422–23n2; on New Chronicles, 6, 236–37; and Ōnuma Chinzan, 156; on Ryū-hoku’s attempts at business, 214

Nagai Shuzen, 213Nagai family, 129Nagasaki, 50, 52–53, 163, 252Nagayama Choen: case study by Satō, 389n8;

map of Shitaya literati, 78, 79, 389n7, 389n8; residence of, 79, 389n8

Nagoya, 345Nakajima Atsushi, “Li Ling,” 385n73Nakajima Katsuyoshi, 428n96Nakamura Keiu, 279Nakamura Yukihiko, 78Nakano Mitsutoshi, 9–10, 11, 133Nakazawa Setsujō, 407n137Namura Taizō, 420n109Nanjing. See Yu HuaiNanjō Bun’yū, 259, 280, 422n143Nanma Tsunanori, 391n48Napoléon III, 208Narushima Gorō, 397n114, 407n150Narushima Kadō (Yoshimatsu): adoption of

Ryūhoku, 28, 376n95; biological father of, 400n15; death of, 33, 37, 38, 40, 44, 47, 61, 77, 382nn35–36; editing of shogunal histories, 31, 65; encouraged Ryūhoku’s poetry com-position, 377n2, 379n10; as family head, 31; Kaikeiroku (Coastal defense records), 41, 42–43, 379nn16–17; mentioned, 388n108; posi-tion of okujusha, 28; punished for opposition to agechirei, 380n21, 399n140; Ryūhoku’s poems for, 40, 83–84, 88, 379n14, 381n33

Narushima Katsuo, 30, 31Narushima Kazusada, 30, 31, 376n100Narushima Kenkichi (Osada Kenkichi): adop-

tion of, 210–11, 415nn136–37; government career of, 211, 213; mentioned, 376n95, 418n44, 423n3; relocated to Shizuoka, 217

Narushima Kinemaro. See RyūhokuNarushima Korehiro. See RyūhokuNarushima Matasaburō, 210, 229Narushima Motonao: death and mourning of,

176; mentioned, 388n108; opposed agechirei policy, 380n21, 394n77, 399n140; oversaw edit-ing of Tokugawa jikki, 30, 85, 118, 376n101; and Ryūhoku’s dismissal, 176

Narushima Nobukane (Kawakami Taigorō), 209, 217, 267, 415nn134–35

Narushima Nobusato, 30Narushima Nobutsugu, 30, 31Narushima Nobuyoshi, 31

476 i n d e x

Noh, 105, 342–43, 396n108, 397n109, 406n137, 431–32n72

nue beast, 134, 402n41

Ochiai Naobumi, 5, 370n13Ochō: children with, 165, 397n114, 407n150,

414n95, 417n35; cottage of, 164–65, 407n149; in Endless Ivy, 192; essay on house-warming party for, 164–65; marriage to Ryūhoku, 130, 229; name of, 129–30, 243; and Ryūhoku’s stele, 355, 433n5

Oda Fusanosuke, 220Oda Nobunaga, 193Odagiri Hideo, 6“Ode to katsuo, An,” 100“Offering my celebratory words,” 153Ofuji (geisha), 193, 400–401n19Oguri Tadamasa, 196, 206, 209, 413n87Ogurusu Kōchō, 252Ogyū Kigai (Matsudaira Norikata), 197,

413nn88–89Ogyū Sorai: advocated High Tang aesthetics,

101, 369n6, 391n39, 396n97; Ken’en school, 381n29; school of, 87, 391nn39–40; on washū in Literary Sinitic, 23, 371n26

Oka Rokumon, 93–94, 391n47Okada Kesao, 243Okano Kanae (Teigyo), 55–56, 383n52; residence

of, 79, 383n52Okayama, 224, 225Okazaki Hironori, 72Ōkubo Shibutsu, 383n53Ōkubo Toshimichi, 1, 321–22, 429n25okujusha: behind-the-scenes role of, 42; estab-

lishment and formalization of, 30, 376n98; Kikuchi Sankei as, 418n49; Narushima family position, 28, 43, 47; oath of, 49; Ryūhoku’s apprenticeship as, 49, 74, 75–76, 82, 116, 119, 382n36; Ryūhoku’s official appointment as, 119, 121; Ryūhoku’s role as, 119, 121–23, 163– 64, 166; stipend of, 49. See also Tokugawa shogunate, Ryūhoku’s service to

Ōkuma Shigenobu, 351, 433n1Ōkura Kihachirō, 433n1“Old Confucian scholar, An,” 90Ōmoto Tatsuya, 369n4“On 07.27, there was a great storm,” 378n5“On an album of coins from various Western

countries,” 186–88“On an image of Hideyoshi,” 59, 61“On an image of Red Cliff,” 377–78n5“On dregs” (essay), 282–83

New Chronicles of Yanagibashi (Ryūkyō shinshi) (continued) 138, 147, 237, 239; second volume of, 35, 222, 236–37, 239, 242–46, 401n20, 418n55; “useless-ness” of, 239, 248, 325; use of Confucian canon, 124, 141–43, 149, 151; use of Literary Sinitic, 123, 132–34; woodcut of “Willow Bridge,” 239

New Journal of Blossoms and the Moon. See Kage tsu shinshi

“newspaperman,” identity of, 35, 268, 273–77, 285, 317, 318. See also journalism; newspapers

Newspaper Ordinance, 288–90, 311, 312. See also press laws

newspapers: attention to, in travelogues, 265, 363; categories of, 272, 272, 329–30, 424n20, 430n43; furigana, 347–48, 432n83; as index of civilization, 267–68, 427n82; introduction of, 265, 325; journalists, 413n83, 429n28; and late-breaking news, 312–13; and the Meiji gov-ernment, 270–71, 424n17; New Chronicles compared to, 214, 248, 325; and the “public,” 311, 434n28; reliance on readers for contribu-tions, 266, 423n6; role of, 257, 287–88, 423n4. See also Akebono shinbun; Chōya shinbun; journalism; letters to the editor; Memorial Service for the Spirit of the Newspaper; “news-paperman,” identity of; press laws; Tōkyō chinbun; Tōkyō nichi nichi shinbun; Yūbin hōchi shinbun

Newton, Isaac, 214New Year: customs, 40–41, 46, 105–6, 379n15;

poems to mark, 32–33, 32, 40, 84, 214–15; rites for, 84

“New Year’s Day. I compose two quatrains and two octaves,” 40

“New Year’s Day in the forty-third year of the cycle,” 32–33, 32

“New Year’s Day in the seventh year of the cycle,” 214–15

“New Zhuangzi,” 313–14, 328n7Nihon (Japan) Bridge, depicted on map, 29Nihon bungaku zensho, 5Nihon koten bungaku taikei, 9–10Niijima Jō, 1Niina Noriko, 135Ning Qi, 92, 392n61“Ninth day of the fifth month, excursion to

Kanagawa-dai,” 183, 184, 411n44Nishi Honganji, 251, 255, 258, 421n112Nishio Shōkei, 187Nochikagami (A later mirror), 31, 159, 406n125Noguchi Neisai, 370nn9–10

i n d e x 477

Otori (geisha), 192, 193, 197, 229, 412n67Ōtsuki Bankei: acquaintance with Ryūhoku,

170, 184, 407n144, 408n3, 419n85; “At the first of the year, I congratulate the tutor scholar,” 163–64, 185, 407n148; as bridge between Shi-taya literati and Western scholars, 161–63, 407n137; and Chōya shinbun, 270, 271, 279, 283, 302, 423n14, 424n19; comments on “An image of tending oxen,” 92, 393n68, 394n71; comments on “Curse in the Hour of the Ox,” 101, 124; contributed to Kagetsu shinshi, 323, 324; education of, 162–63; joined Ryūhoku’s poetry gatherings, 156; knowledge on West-ern subjects, 163, 183–84, 411n57; memorial for, 413n82; as model for Ryūhoku, 163, 167, 407n145; political views of, 167, 383n45, 411–12n58; project to translate Perry’s travelogue, 183–85; proposed kyōwa as gloss for “repub-lic,” 245, 419n77; reassigned to Sendai, 188, 411n58; scrapbook of, 97, 385n68; Soga ven-detta poem, 171, 173, 408n10

Ōtsuki Bansui (Genpaku), 162Ōtsuki Joden, 355, 356, 407n137, 433n8Ōtsuki Shunsai, 160Oume (geisha), 192, 197–98, 412n71Outer Kanda, map of, 54Ouyang Xiu, “Youth wandering,” 395n80Owen, Stephen, 411n48Oyabegawa, 349Ozaki Saburō, 301Ozawa Suien, 417n21

pailü (J. hairitsu), 18“Painting of Tao Yuanming’s ‘The Return,’ A,”

112–14Paris, 246, 249–50, 256, 262. See also Paris Inter-

national ExhibitionParis International Exhibition, 415n137, 421n121Parkes, Harry, 203parliamentary government, 344–47, 352. See also

National Diet“Parting from a ‘bamboo wife’ pillow,” 59, 60, 61“Passing Yanagibashi at night,” 131, 132, 401n29Pastreich, Emanuel, 245, 419n78peach-blossom spring, 363–64Peng bird, 225Perry, Matthew: gifts presented by, 67–68,

387n91; Japanese travelogue, 184–85, 411n45, 411n47; in “Locomotive song,” 68–69, 71, 73, 387n95; mission of, 40, 41, 50–51, 67–68; nego-tiations with, 119; in “Ninth day of the fifth month, excursion to Kanagawa-dai,” 183,

“On fireflies,” 61Ono Goin, 56, 384n59Ono Kozan, 274n76, 279, 323Ōno Mitsutsugi, 248–49“On sending off Shioda Saburō,” 388n105“On sending Yasuda Unpeki off to Kanagawa

to study English books,” 182–83“On the day after the full moon,” 125–27, 126,

399n5“On the eleventh day . . . it is the anniversary

of my father’s passing,” 83–84“On the harm of the sajō argument,” 179“On the opening of the Translation Office and

the ancient languages of India,” 262–63“On the seventeenth day . . . I board an Ameri-

can steamship,” 225“On the twentieth day of the ninth month, I led

soldiers and horses,” 204“On the twenty-seventh day . . . His Highness

conducted military exercises,” 72–73, 388n105Ōnuma Chinzan: contrasted with Ryūhoku,

156–59; contributed to Kagetsu shinshi, 323; excursion to Yanagibashi, 161; joined Ryū-hoku’s poetry gatherings, 156, 405n113; leader of Shitaya circle, 56, 156, 163, 280; in Meiji Sinitic literature, 370n8; “Poem of spring feel-ings,” 157; poem to commemorate Narushima Kinkō, 157–58, 164; poetry collections of, 156, 157, 405nn114–15, 405n118; poetry gatherings of, 56, 385n68; praise for Ryūhoku, 154, 157–58; residence of, 79, 395n84; Ryūhoku’s ties with, 97, 156; teacher of poetry, 97, 384–85n55

Opium Wars, 53, 383n45Oranda biseiroku (Record of Holland’s beautiful

government), 176, 409nn13–14, 409n16, 410n42Osada Kenkichi. See Narushima KenkichiOsada Shūtō, 423n3Osaka, 208, 224, 227–29, 319, 335, 380n21, 415n118Osaka Castle, 226Ōsako Sadakiyo, 366Ōshima Ryūichi, 198, 379n10, 379n17, 381n31ōsōji (great sweeping), 105–6Osuzu (geisha), 400n19Ōta Nanpo, 388n3Ōta Randō, 94, 394n79Ōta barracks, 199, 202, 203, 204, 414n101Otake (geisha), 190Ōtani Kōei, 252. See also Gennyo, AbbotŌtani Masao, 27, 59, 380–81n27; “Ryūhoku no

seishun,” 378n9Oteru (geisha), 401n19Otobe Kanae, 269, 426n66

478 i n d e x

postal service, 365“Presented to Master Suien to congratulate him”

(Yanagawa Shunsan), 197–98preservation, 341–43, 343–44, 432n75Preserve the Nation Society (Hokokusha),

334–35press laws: Chōya shinbun and, 268–69, 288–97,

300–301, 304–5, 322, 359, 424n27; and figure-head positions, 328; newspapers’ response to, 288–89, 293; outlawed pseudonyms, 288–89; violation of, 294–95, 297, 300–301, 315, 360. See also freedom of the press; Memorial Service for the Spirit of the Newspaper; Ryūhoku, imprisonment of

Prison de la Santé, 427n93prostitution, 152, 167. See also geishapublic and private spheres, 361, 434nn28–29publishing, 256, 259–60, 262, 264, 265. See also

journalism

Qiao sisters, 130, 401n27Qin, first emperor of, 115Qin Hui, 125, 400n7Qinhuai pleasure quarters (Nanjing). See Yu

HuaiQu Yuan, 114, 115, 275–76, 286, 398n133

Rabinovitch, Judith, 20railroad, 67–68, 387n91. See also “Locomotive

song”Rai San’yō: “Anchored off the coast of Ama-

kusa,” 311, 428n97; “The Mongols are coming,” 66, 386n86, 386n87; “Oranda-sen kō” (Ballad of a Dutch ship), 52–53, 383n44; “A painting of Lin Bu,” 398n125

Raku (concubine), 397n114Randon, Marshal, 199“Reading books in the fresh chill of autumn,”

88–90, 116reclusion: dismissal and, 175, 181; and the fall of

the Tokugawa, 35, 209; rejection of, 360–62; in Ryūhoku’s poems, 82, 110–11, 181, 215, 304; Tao Yuanming and, 13–15, 34, 112–13; urban, 150–51, 181, 215, 220, 234, 240, 404n98, 418n64. See also “An image of Li Bo gazing at the water-fall”; “Biography of the Sumida Recluse”; Tao Yuanming

Record of a Journey to Hitachi and Shimōsa (Jōsō yuki), 232, 233, 364

Record of Holland’s Beautiful Government (Oranda biseiroku), 176, 409nn13,14,16, 410n42

Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian):

Perry, Matthew (continued) 411n44; return visit of, 33, 50–51, 55, 116, 156–57, 382nn39–40, 382n43; and Ryūhoku’s antipa-thy toward the West, 124; in Ryūhoku’s dia-ries, 49, 50–51, 382n39; in “Writing my feelings at year’s end,” 75–76

philanthropists, 366phoenix, 154–55, 158–59, 198, 405n123Photographs of Tokyo. See Tōkyō shashinkyōPine and Chrysanthemum Cottage (Shōkikusō),

13, 211–12, 213, 220, 223, 353, 360, 418n64; signifi-cance of the name, 211–12, 213, 361

pingze (level and oblique), 19–20, 58, 373n61, 384n63, 385n64, 390n23

playful glosses (gikun), 134, 144, 399n3, 402n42playful Sinitic writings (kanbun gesaku), 133–35,

291, 402n37pleasure boats, 129, 141, 161, 347. See also

boathousesplum gardens, 380–81n27, 381n28. See also “An

image of Lin Bu looking at his plum blossoms”poem calendars, 95–97, 96, 394–95n80, 395n82“Poem of spring feelings” (Ōnuma Chinzan), 157“Poem on an old sword,” 215–16“poems of gathered graphs” ( jizishi), 97–98,

395n88poems of mourning, 384n59. See also Narushima

Kadō“Poems of one night,” 98, 395n89“Poetic exposition on shrinking in fear” (Heki-

ekifu), 295–97, 298–300, 426n64poetry gatherings: assigned topics for, 57, 58,

59–62, 60, 61, 93–94, 98–99, 101–2, 130, 385n67, 394n79, 396n98, 401n27; formal consider-ations, 103–4; getsureikai, 58, 385n68; mara-thon session at, 98; Ōnuma Chinzan’s, 56, 385n68; recommendations for improvement, 57; Ryūhoku’s, 34, 53–55, 57–59, 93–94, 97, 156, 385n65, 385n67, 394n79, 395n83; Ryūhoku’s compared with Hayashi, 91, 97, 101; sekidai topics, 58, 61–62, 94, 394n79; topics on Japa-nese themes, 98–102. See also Hayashi family scholars

poetry journals, 34, 377n4, 377–78n5, 378n6; completeness of, 58, 385n67; poems composed for the Hayashi gatherings, 91, 392n58; and sequence of poetry gatherings, 59. See also Kankei shōkō

poetry schools, 87, 280, 381n29, 391nn39–40political commentary, 314, 327, 344–47, 352political parties, 350–51popular rights, 337, 348–49, 350, 366, 432n89

i n d e x 479

9, 427n91; legacy of, 353–56; marriages of, 74–75, 105, 120, 129, 130, 397n114, 399n144, 401n20; names of, 28, 57, 71, 85, 123, 178, 191, 353, 375n93, 384n60, 387n96, 412n60; parent-age of, 28, 376n95; political activities, 343–52; posthumous name of, 354, 355, 433n3; resi-dences of, 13, 28, 29, 163, 211–12, 246, 375n94, 412n60. See also Narushima family

Ryūhoku shishō: Chinese readers of, 232; com-ments and revisions in, 378nn7–8, 378–79n9; poems from Hayashi gathering, 92, 393n68; selection of poems for, 38, 39, 95–97, 112; type-setting of references to the shogun, 388n105

Ryūhoku zenshū, 371n21, 377n3, 396n90Ryūkyō shinshi. See New Chronicles of

YanagibashiRyukyus, 50, 382n38

Sada Hakubō, 279Sada Kaiseki, 334–35Saigō Takamori, 298, 313, 317–18, 320, 360, 366,

429n17; compared to fish in a pond, 320–21; Sinitic verses by, 429n22. See also Satsuma Rebellion

Saigyō, “Composed about Mount Fuji when he traveled to the east,” 102

Saitō Chikudō: Ahen shimatsuki (A record of the opium events), 383n45; death of, 384n59

Saitō Gesshin, Edo meisho zue, 140, 403n65Saitō Mareshi, 42, 80, 87, 377n105, 379n19sajō (closing the ports and expelling the barbar-

ians), 169–70, 179, 189, 299–300Sakaki, Atsuko, 372n35, 373n66Sakata Kan’ichirō, 259Sakata Ōkaku, 418n62; residence of, 79Sakhalin. See Karafutosakō (closing the ports). See sajōsamurai: and assassination of Ōkubo Toshi-

michi, 321; challenge to Meiji state, 316, 317– 18, 429n15, 429n17; contrasted with Chinese scholar-officials, 42; displaced Tokugawa, 236–37, 242; essays on, 317–18, 429nn15–17; fuhei shizoku uprisings, 313, 318–19; loyalty of, 287; Satsuma and Chōshū, 236–37; status, 35, 210, 218, 267, 316, 318–19, 320, 429n16. See also Saigō Takamori; Satsuma Rebellion

Sanjō Sanetomi, 253–55“Sankei invited me to Itokuri River,” 234Sano Tsunetami, 366Sanskrit, 251, 259–62, 422n135, 422n143Sasaki Hidejirō, 209Satō Issai, 85

“Biographies of the Assassin-Retainers,” 308–9, 427n92; biographies of Li Guang and Wu Qi, 204; lunzan, 242; mentioned, 82, 392n62, 393n63, 425–26n59; story of Zhao Tuo, 64; “Treatise on Rivers and Canals,” 235

recumbent traveling, 135–36Red Cliff, 130, 312, 377–78n5, 401n27. See also Su

Dongpo, “Poetic Exposition on Red Cliff ”regulated verse (lüshi), 18–20, 46, 58, 373n60Reiganjima, 377n2Reizei house, 30, 376n100religion: essays on, 263–64, 337–38; freedom of,

287“Reminiscence on the past at Kōnodai,” 381n29Renan, Ernest, Vie de Jésus, 258, 262Renjinglu (Hut in the Human Realm), 13rhyme groups, 18–19, 51–52, 385n71, 394n70,

395n89. See also kanshi, formal features ofrhyme matching: with Du Fu’s “Autumn Feel-

ings,” 97–98; at the Hayashi gatherings, 93, 394n72; social function of, 33; transtemporal, 93, 394nn73–74; types of, 376n104

Rikken Kaishintō (Constitutional Progressive Reform Party), 351

Rikken Teiseitō (Constitutional Imperial Party), 351, 433nn93–94

Roches, Léon, 197, 199, 203Rodriguez, João, 257Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guan-

zhong), 401n27“Rose balsam,” 385n67Rosny, Léon de, 256–58, 421n117, 421n119, 421n124;

Introduction à l’étude de la langue japonaise, 421n119

Rouzer, Paul, 373n63Russia, southward advance of, 63–64Ryōgoku: depicted on map, 29; in illustration

of Yanagibashi, 122; river-opening festival, 344–45

Ryū Sōro, 372n47Ryūhoku (Narushima Kinetarō): adopted sons

of, 210–11, 415nn136–37; biography, 1–2; birth siblings of, 376n95; children of, 106, 120, 165, 397n114, 407n150, 414n95, 435n46; confine-ment of, 35, 173–74, 175, 180–81, 191, 409n12, 410n34; death of, 352, 353; dismissal from sho-gunal post, 34–35, 169, 173–75, 175–81, 191, 212–13, 409n12; eclecticism of, 36, 281, 315, 321, 330–33, 337–38, 360; education of, 31; eyesight of, 362, 434n32; as family head, 31; funeral of, 353, 354, 433n1, 433n3; grave inscription of, 353–54, 356; imprisonment of, 36, 269, 297, 302–5, 307–

480 i n d e x

Senzaishū (Collection for a thousand years), 104–5Seven Gods of Fortune (Shichifukujin), 284–85,

330–31, 425n47shi (Sinitic poetry), 4, 20–21, 370nn9–10. See also

kanshiShibano Ritsuzan, 86–87, 391nn42–43, 391n46shibun-gakari (person in charge of prose and

poetry), 88, 391nn47–48Shibusawa Eiichi, 1, 414n112, 433n1Shichifukujin (Seven Gods of Fortune), 284–85,

330–31, 425n47Shichikyoku Ginsha, 280shidafu (scholar-officials), 42, 77–78, 80, 388n3shifu (shi and fu), 4Shigeno Yasutsugu (Seisai), 88shijin (scholar-officials): contrasted with bunjin

(literati), 34, 77, 80, 86–87, 90, 108–10, 112–15, 115–16, 121, 148, 222, 361; limited role of, 119, 151–52, 166, 379n20; in quatrain by Gesshō, 221. See also Confucian scholars

shikai. See poetry gatheringsShikama, 227Shikoku, 228, 230Shimaji Mokurai, 255, 258–59, 421n112Shimaya (Western articles store), 247Shimizu Makoto, 340Shimizu Usaburō, 414n112, 421n121Shimoda, 67Shimodate yūki (Record of a journey to

Shimodate), 232–33, 235Shimooka Renjō, 225Shinagawa Daiba, 387n90Shin Buddhism. See Higashi Honganji; Nishi

HonganjiShinbunshi (literary journal), 279, 325Shinbunshi (Newspaperman), 273, 276, 318.

See also “newspaperman,” identity ofshinbutsu bunri policy, 251, 284–85Shin’enkan (Hall of the Detached Mind), 13Shinjū ten no Amijima (Love suicides at Ami-

jima; Chikamatsu), 228Shin kokinshū, 102Shinmi Masamichi (Bōzan), 31, 32–33, 32, 93Shinobazu Pond, depicted on map, 29Shin’ō (New Great) Bridge, depicted on map, 29Shinobu Joken, 355, 433n5, 433n8Shinshū Tōha Gakujuku, 246, 266, 419nn83–84Shinsuisha, 340Shintaishishō, 370n10, 370n13Shinto, 251, 252, 263. See also shinbutsu bunri

policyShioda Ryōhei, 138, 399n3

Satow, Ernest, 411n42Satsuma domain, 236–37, 287, 382n38; 1868 rebel-

lion, 205, 206Satsuma Rebellion (1877), 312–14, 317, 319–20,

428nn3–4. See also Saigō TakamoriSawada Chokuon, 270–71, 283, 328Schalow, Paul, 373n66Schneider, Laurence, 398n133scholar-officials. See shidafu; shijinIl secolo, 260Second Industrial Exhibition (1881), 340Seeley, Christopher, A History of Writing in

Japan, 23Seidōha (Sage’s Hall Faction), 390n32. See also

Shōheizaka AcademySeikadō Bunko, 186, 411n54seikanron (argument to punish Korea), 298–300,

426n69Seiki yohitsu (Superfluous jottings at the Hall

of Tranquil Lodging; Bitō Jishū), 15Seinan conflict. See Satsuma RebellionSeirei (Ch. Xingling) school, 369n6sekidai, 58, 61–62, 94, 394n79Seki Sekkō (Tetsuzō): attended poetry gather-

ings, 55–58, 97–98; biography of, 383–84n55; as calligrapher, 56, 95, 96, 385n55, 418n62; collab-oration with Funabashi Seitan, 384nn56–57; contributed poetry to Chōya shinbun, 280; “An image of Tadanori lodging under a cherry tree,” 103; interactions with Ryūhoku, 56–57; jizishi, 98; manuscripts of, 56, 57, 384n62, 385n66, 394n75; mentioned, 24, 80; poem cal-endars, 97, 395n82; poems on Perry’s return, 382n43; quatrain comparing Ryūhoku to Tao Yuanming, 434n22; residence of, 54, 79, 385n55, 395n84; scrapbook of, 59, 60, 61, 95, 96, 97, 385nn55–56, 385n68, 395n82; Sekkōrō shishō poetry collection, 56–57, 382n43, 385n66

Seki Senzō, 160Seki Shinzō (Kira Yūryū), 251, 252–53, 254Seki Tetsuzō. See Seki SekkōSeki Tokudō, Eiri Eigaku mōgyū (Illustrated

primer of English study), 24, 25Seki Tsunezō, 97Sekine Chidō, 345Sekkōrō academy, 383n55“Sending off Yaguchi Naokai, who has received

an official order to go to Ezo,” 63–66, 74, 182–83

Sensōji temple, 309; depicted on map, 29. See also Memorial Service for the Spirit of the Newspaper

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Smits, Ivo, 21snobbery, 432n85Société d’ethnographie, 259–60, 262, 421n133,

422n138; membership roster, 261Soeda Tomoyoshi, 367Soejima Taneomi, 255Soga brothers vendetta, 170–73, 174, 408n4Sone Tokusai, 383n50“Song of Kawaisō, The,” 191“Song of speechlessness,” 429n28“Song of weariness,” 114–15, 398nn130–31“Song on seeing a picture of the suicide of the

sixteen men from Aizu, A,” 218–20, 416n5“Song on selling my books to buy a sword,”

166–67“Song on sweeping dust,” 106Sonzogno, Edoardo, 260Sorai school, 87, 381n29, 391nn39–40. See also

Ogyū Sorai“Spontaneous composition,” 177Spring and Autumn Annals, 277, 359“spring goods,” 75, 388n110“Spring moon on Willowbank,” 61“Spring rain in an apricot village,” 61“Steamship song,” 51–52, 68, 70, 125, 156Stenhouse, Thomas B. H., Rocky Mountain

Saints, 262Strange News of Tokyo (Tōkyō chinbun), 213–14,

218, 256, 308, 416nn142–43Strassberg, Richard, 135Stray, Christopher, 11study groups, 82, 390n25Su Dongpo (Su Shi): line sent to his brother from

prison, 416n9; “Poetic Exposition on Red Cliff,” 98, 295, 296–97, 298–99, 314, 346, 395n88, 426n64; preface to “He Tao shi,” 93

Su Jun, uprising of, 113Su Shi. See Su DongpoSu Wu, 61–62, 65, 80, 84–85, 385nn72–73. See also

“An image of Su Wu eating snow”Su Xiaoxiao, 131–32Suehiro Tetchō: and the Meiji press laws, 293–

94, 300, 302, 344, 427n72; memoirs of, 314, 427n91; mentioned, 328, 361

Sugano Hiroyuki, 370n18Suganuma Tatsukichi, 415n125Sugawara no Michizane, 33, 386n88Sugi Chōu, “The joys of drinking tea,” 430n36Sugimoto Chūon, 400n15Sugimoto Kōseki (Chūtatsu), 51, 128–29, 160,

400n15Sugishita Motoaki, 10, 39, 70, 71, 97, 378n9

shipping report, 254Shirakawa domain, 86Shiramine Shunme, 339Shirane, Haruo, 5, 9shireki. See poem calendarsShishido Tamaki, 123–24, 399n2Shishuo xinyu (Liu Yiqing), 393n64, 397n111,

397n117, 397n121Shitaya district: map of, 29, 54, 160; Narushima

residence, 53, 56, 128; residents of, 56, 78, 79, 128–29, 163, 383n53, 384n58, 389n6–8

Shitaya Ginsha (Shitaya Poetry Society), 56, 156, 280

shizoku privilege, 318–19, 320, 429n16Shizuoka, 210, 217, 220, 240–41, 247, 267, 416n1Shōdoshima, 230. See also Mount KankakeyamaShōgitai, 220shogunal histories, 31, 37, 65. See also Nochi-

kagami, Tokugawa jikkishogunate. See Tokugawa shogunateShōheizaka Academy (Shōheikō): brought under

shogunal control, 85, 390n29; center of edit-ing of Tokugawa jikki, 85, 376n101, 386n89; cur-riculum of, 86, 87–88, 391n46, 391n48, 392n55, 392n59; depicted on map, 29; and Hayashi poetry gatherings, 85, 390n32; Ōtsuki Bankei’s study at, 162; rectors of, 87, 88, 133; students of, 383n50. See also Hayashi family

Shōji Sōichi, 163Shōkikusō. See Pine and Chrysanthemum

CottageShu Qi, 276shukudai. See poetry gatherings, assigned

topics forShunseirō shishō, 39, 375n93, 378n7, 396n90shūsei, 383n49Shūzenji hot springs, 363Sibley, William, review of Keene’s Dawn to the

West, 6, 10Siebold (German physician), 159signature seals, 192Sima Qian. See Records of the Grand HistorianSinitic literature, 3, 7–9, 370n8, 371n24, 371n28.

See also kanshibunSinitic poetry. See kanshiSino-Japanese, 20, 21, 22, 24, 374n71, 374n81,

374n83“Sinosphere,” 369n5“Skull,” 405n113“Sleep-talk early in the New Year,” 328–29smallpox vaccination, 159–61, 160, 234–35, 268,

406n126, 406n129

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Tanaka Akira, 250Tanaka Fujimaro, 423n8Tanaka Heihachi (aka Tenka no Itohei), 366,

435n46Tang shi xuan (Tōshisen), 395n85Tani Bunchō, 389n6Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, 398n122Tao Yuanming, 13–17; “An Account of Peach-

Blossom Spring,” 363–64; association with zither, 81, 151, 389n12, 389n16; “Biography of Master Five Willows,” 113–14, 212–13; and chrysanthemums, 16–17, 151, 360, 367; invoked in new ways, 36, 358, 360–61, 367; as loyal vas-sal, 213; poems of, 81, 389n13; “Progression of the Seasons,” 150; readings of, 15–16, 372n51; reclusion of, 13–15, 16, 81, 90, 112–14, 212, 223, 360, 361, 362; references to, in Ryūhoku’s poems, 12–13, 17, 114, 115, 150, 221–22, 303, 360–61, 398n131, 416n11; “The Return,” 81, 112–13, 148, 211–12, 220, 362, 367, 412n70; “Returning to the Farm to Dwell,” 90–91; Ryūhoku’s iden-tification with, 15–16, 360–61, 434n22; sons of, 211, 415n136; “Twenty Poems on Drinking Wine,” 13; use of words from his poems, 13, 15, 372n47; visual representations of, 13, 14

“Tapping my sword,” 116tea ceremony, 432n73Teikoku bungaku, 7, 370n14, 371n25“Ten kinds of desolation on a cold night,” 62,

385n71“Ten poems on autumn feelings,” 236“Ten poems to express my feelings on an

autumn night,” 119, 399n143Tenpō reforms, 133, 394n77. See also Mizuno

TadakuniTerakado Seiken, “Kiransetsu” (On smashing

Dutch studies), 406n129. See also Account of the Prosperity of Edo

Tetsuan Dōshō, 372n47theater, 266, 342–43, 431–32n72. See also kabuki;

NohThelle, Notto, 258“Theory of the Seven Gods of Fortune, A”

(Shichifukujin setsu), 284–85Tian Dan, 392–93n62Tian, Xiaofei, 15, 81, 213, 416n141tihuashi (J. daigashi; poem on the topic of a

painting), 108–9, 110, 112–13, 114, 397n119Toba-Fushimi, Battle of, 208, 226Tōda Chōan, 406–7n137Togawa Seisai, 224, 401n20Tōkaidō highway, 267

Sugita Genpaku, 162, 406n132Sugita Gentan, Kenzengaku (The study of

health), 409n15“Suikenki,” 406n127Suisaien academy, 403n70Sumida River: cherry blossom viewing, 379n14;

home of the White Gull Society, 433n6; in illustration of Yanagibashi, 122; map of, 29; pleasure boats on, 129, 161, 347; scenery, 348, 384n57. See also boathouses; Yanagibashi plea-sure quarters

Summers, James, 260, 422n138Super Secret Tales from the Slammer (Gokunai-

banashi), 307–9, 427n89Suzaku-mura, depicted on map, 29Suzuki Shigehisa: Karafuto nikki (Diary of

Karafuto), 63, 64, 385nn76–77, 386n85; poem addressed to Yaguchi, 386n85

Suzuki Shōtō, 280, 323, 430n41Suzuki, Tomi, 9Swartz, Wendy, 15–16, 389n12sword imagery, 38, 42, 66, 69, 74, 76, 77, 115, 116,

215–16, 316, 351, 386n87. See also book, con-trasted with sword; martial imagery; “Song on selling my books to buy a sword”

sword merchants, 317

taikaku (court) poetry, 152–54, 325–26, 404n103, 430n36

tainin (great task), 189–90Taira no Masakado, 429n17Taira no Tadanori, 103–5, 397n109Tai Sei shinbun, 260, 422n138taitō, 387n93, 388n105. See also heishutsu, ketsujiTakahashi Aritsune, 94Takahashi Kiichi, 270–71, 328Takakura Academy, 252Takasago, 227Takayama Hikokurō, 350, 433n91Takeda Shingen, 30Takehashi estate railroad demonstration,

68, 71Takenouchi Gendō (Seiha), 159, 164, 179,

406n127, 410n29Takeuchi Hiroshi, 42, 379n18Takeuchi Ihin, 384n59Takizawa Bakin, 402n33Tales of the Heike, 103, 105, 226, 342, 397n109,

402n41Tamenaga Shunsui, 133Tamura Sōtatsu, 129Tanabe Taichi, 239, 411n57, 414n112

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Ryū hoku’s associates, 188, 411n57; and Ryūho-ku’s career as a journalist, 224; Shikoku and Shōdoshima, 230–31; world tour with Higashi Honganji, 246–47; Yokohama, 224–25. See also Higashi Honganji temple; travelogues

travelogues: advocacy in, 365–66; attention to newspapers, 363–64; “As the brush travels,” 429n30; Chinese rhetoric in, 380n26; descrip-tions of scenery, 229–31, 233; domestic, 362–65; format and writing style of, 232–35; as ground-work for career in journalism, 35, 231, 235; in Kagetsu shinshi, 417n21; Jōsō yūki (Record of a journey to Hitachi and Shimōsa), 232–35; late Edo approach to, 227, 417n28; opposition between center and periphery in, 228; Shimo-date yūki (Record of a journey to Shimodate), 232–33, 235; temporality in, 364, 435n43. See also Diary of a Journey to Bitchū; Diary of a Journey to the West

treasure ship, 46Treaty of Kanagawa, 67–68, 118, 386n89Treaty of Shanyuan, 111, 398n125treaty ports, 169–70, 179, 183, 185, 265 Tsuchiya Reiko, 272Tsu domain, 382n38Tsujimoto Masashi, 87, 88Tsutsui Masanori, 133Tuqiu, 220–21“Twenty rhymes to give my son Bin,” 210–11“Two Sumida River poems,” 381n29

Uchida Kyūichi, 225Uemura Roshū: attended poetry gatherings, 97,

98, 101; “An image of Saigyō gazing at the peak,” 102–3; “An image of Taira [Lord of] Satsuma lodging under a cherry tree,” 104; jizishi, 98; “Katsuo,” 99–100; mentioned, 161, 394n75, 395n83, 407n146; residence of, 79, 395n84; and Seki Sekkō, 395n84

Ueno: Battle of, 220; map of, 54Ueno Park, 434n29ugachi (digging or piercing), 135, 140Ukai Nagisa, 269–70, 423n14Umegami Takuyū, 421n112Umeyashiki, 46, 380n27, 381n28Umezawa Hideo, 163United States: Civil War soldiers in Yokohama,

208; demand for trade agreement, 50–51; gifts from, 67–68; requests to station foreign lega-tion, 399n6; and the Treaty of Kanagawa, 67; viewed as threat, 53. See also Perry, Matthew; Treaty of Kanagawa

Tōkan nichiroku (Diary of one “thrown an idle empty post”), 180, 381n30

Tōkei shinshi, 310–11; poem “Shinbun segaki” (Feeding the hungry ghosts of the news-paper), 310

Tokugawa Akitake, 208, 414n112Tokugawa Nariaki, 382n41Tokugawa jikki: edited by Narushima family, 30,

53, 85, 118, 376n101, 386n89; and the Hayashi family, 85, 376n101, 386n89

Tokugawa shogunate: authority over northern region, 63–64; Bankei’s position on, 411–12n58; discontent with, 163, 166–68, 169, 178; dismissal of Ryūhoku, 34–35, 169, 173–75, 175–80, 191, 212– 13, 409n12; fall of, 35, 174, 205, 208, 217–18, 226, 236, 408n2; foreign threat to, 40–43, 53, 63, 67, 111–12, 117–18, 125, 157; graphical indications of deference to, 180, 387n93, 388n105, 398n138, 410n33; isolationist policies of, 50, 382n37; and Léon de Rosny, 257; Naru shima family service to, 30–31, 33, 37, 118, 357, 376n95; negotiations with Western powers, 189; position vis-à-vis the emperor, 169; Ryū hoku’s final months of service, 205–10, 415n124; Ryūhoku’s military post for, 35, 174, 196–205, 208–9, 215–16, 414n99; Ryūhoku’s position on, 208–9, 286–87, 357–58, 415n128; Ryūhoku’s service to, 33, 34–35, 38, 53, 67, 128, 155, 174–75; and trade with the United States, 51, 382n41. See also court poetry; oku-jusha; sajō (clos ing the ports and expelling the barbarians); samurai; Tokugawa jikki

Tokugawa shoguns. See also individual shogun and successor names

Tokutomi Sohō, 358Tokyo, 217, 228. See also Edo; Yanagibashi plea-

sure quartersTōkyō chinbun (Strange news of Tokyo), 213–14,

218, 256, 308, 416nn142–43Tōkyō nichi nichi shinbun, 270, 273, 289, 313, 353,

423n6, 423n16, 426n62Tōkyō shashinkyō (Photographs of Tokyo;

Ki kuchi Sankei), 2–3, 369n4; preface by Ryūhoku, 2–3, 4, 369n4, 425n40

toponyms, 46–47, 380–81n27, 381n29Tōshōgū (Nikkō), 342Tōsō kaii, 47, 381n29Tōyama Unjo, Bokusui zatsuei (Miscellaneous

compositions on the Sumida River), 384n57Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 193“Training cavalry in the Ōta encampment,” 202travel: within Japan, 224–35; in the Kansai region,

226–28; to Koga and Shimodate, 232–35; by

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52, 68–69, 118, 125, 157, 183, 296, 299, 336, 351; Ryūhoku’s transformation regarding, 34, 124–25, 127–28, 170, 182, 185–86; Western medicine, 159, 170, 235, 406n126, 406n129, 406n132, 409n15; Western military techniques, 196–97; Western technology, 70. See also foreign ships; foreign threat; foreign trade; railroad; sajō (closing the ports and expelling the barbarians); small-pox vaccination; Westernization; Western studies

Western (Gregorian) calendar, xi, 245, 419n78Westernization, 309, 331, 334–37, 350, 427n93.

See also bunmei kaika; modernizationWestern studies: coin collecting and, 185–86;

confinement and, 181–82, 192; Meiji backlash, 331–32; referred to in poems, 182–83; and the shogun’s curriculum, 176–77, 185; and Sinol-ogy, 281–82, 331–33; and Western languages, 175, 181–82; Western scholars, 159–62, 170, 225

Wheeler, James T., A History of India from the Earliest Ages, 262

White Gull Society (Hakuōsha), 433n6White Tiger Brigade (Byakkotai), 218Wilson, H. H., 262Wixted, Timothy: contrasted with Lurie, 25; on

poetry of Mori Ōgai, 10, 274n74; translation of the term kanshibun, 20, 21, 22, 24

“Writing my feelings at year’s end,” 75–76Wu Ding, King, 164Wu, Emperor (of the Liu-Song), 114Wu Kaisheng, Wan-Qing sishijia shichao

(Anthology of forty poets from late Qing), 371n24

Wu Qi, 204Wumen huafanglu (Xixi Shanren), 418n61

Xiang Bo, 242, 419n69Xiang Yu, 419n69Xiang Zhuang, 242, 419n69Xiao Tong, Tao Yuanming ji, 372–73n54Xie An (Anshi): invoked by Ryūhoku, 17, 113, 119,

148–49, 175, 178, 236, 354; in Mengqiu, 398n129; posthumous name of, 178, 354, 433n3; Ryūho-ku’s affiliation with, 178, 355

Xie Chaozong, 158, 405–6n123Xie Lingyun, 405–6n123Xie Pengfei (Yinzhuang), 418n44Xingling (J. Seirei) school, 369n6Xu Jiyu, Yinghuan zhilüe, 182, 186, 187,

410nn40–41Xu Qianshen, 232, 418n43Xu Shijia, 274n76

“uselessness” (muyō): addressed in Chōya shin-bun, 281–82; in “Biography of a Sumida River Recluse,” 209–10; in Diary of a Journey to the West, 250; in Endless Ivy, 175, 195; and the Higashi Honganji world tour, 250, 256; Inui on, 251; key to framework for viewing Ryū-hoku, 249–50; Kobayashi Shigeru on, 250; Maeda on, 249–50, 420n97; in New Chronicles, 239–40, 248

Ushimado, 227ushi no toki mairi, 101, 396n98uta (Japanese-language poetry), 4Utagawa Hiroshige: depiction of Umeyashiki,

381n28; One Hundred Famous Scenes in Edo, 46

Utagawa Hiroshige III, The Chōya Newspaper Company Building on the Ginza, 316

Utagawa Kuniteru, illustration of Yanagibashi, 122

utamakura, 224, 233

“Valley of petrification,” 167–68, 178, 181Van Gogh, Vincent, “Flowering Plum Tree (after

Hiroshige),” 381n28Voltaire, 258

wabun, 5, 18, 232Wada Shigejirō, 138, 249waka, 39, 101, 103, 104–5, 233, 379n10wakan binary, 18Wakan rōeishū (Japanese and Chinese poems

to sing), 383n49Wang Anshi, 432n81; “new policies,” 125, 400n7Wang Dao (Maohong), 113, 397n111, 398n129Wang Dun, uprising of, 113Wang Kangju, “Refuting the ‘Invitation to Hid-

ing,’ ” 404n98Wang Qinruo, 111–12Wang Tao, 402n40Wang Xizhi, “Preface to the Orchid Pavilion

Poems,” 98, 290–93, 295, 314Wang Zhiben, 360Washizu Kidō, 156, 161, 385n68, 407n137; resi-

dence of, 79washū (in the Japanese custom), 8, 23, 371n26Watanabe (student), 389n17Watson, Burton, 20, 373n65Wei Yuan, Haiguo tuzhi, 182, 410n39Wen Tianxiang, “Song of the Righteous Spirit,”

304–5wenren (literati). See bunjinWest, the: as “barbarians,” 41, 42–43, 49, 50–51,

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Yates, William, A Bengali Grammar, 262Yellow Emperor, 90Yin, Lord of, 220Ying Wa College (Hong Kong), 256Yoda, Tomiko, 9Yoda Gakkai, 208–9, 279, 355–56, 415n128, 433n6,

433n8Yokohama, 67–68, 179, 203, 225. See also French

military advisory programsYokohama Furansugo Denshūjo (Collège Franco-

Japonais), 197, 203, 413–14n92, 414n112Yokohama mainichi shinbun, 265Yomiuri shinbun: Ryūhoku’s contributions to,

36, 247, 304, 315–16, 330, 347–48; on Ryūhoku’s funeral, 353

Yongeru no kigoku (The strange case of the esquire), 176, 409nn13–14

yongwushi (poems on things), 397n119Yo no uwasa (News of the world), 257, 421n121Yoshida Sakuzō, 176Yoshikawa Kōjirō, 78Yoshimune (eighth shogun), 30, 389n4Yoshinobu (shogun), 205, 208–9, 217, 226, 415n118Yoshiwara: depicted on map, 29; geisha of, 141,

145–47Yu Huai, Miscellaneous Records of the Wooden

Bridge (Banqiao zaji), 132, 136, 138–40, 237, 238–39, 240–41, 245, 402n32

Yu, King, 188Yu Xin, “Rhapsody to a candle,” 377n4Yu Yue: critique of Ono Kozan, 274n76; Dong-

ying shixuan, 405n118Yuan Gui (Yu Liang), 397n111Yuan Hongdao, 70; residence of, 48Yuan Mei, clutching a chrysanthemum, 13Yuan Zhongdao, 48Yūbin hōchi shinbun: competitor of Chōya shin-

bun, 270, 273, 315, 423n16; essays submitted to, 263–64, 266–68, 423n9; Kurimoto Joun’s editorship, 286; letter from Ryūhoku to his brother, 265–66; reporting on Satsuma Rebel-lion, 313

yuefu (music bureau) poetry, 93, 94, 394n76, 418n60

“Yūji no enkaku” (A history of diversion), 206, 415n121

Yushima Seidō, 390n32Yuwai hanji yanjiu jikan, 372n34

zatsuroku columns: “An account of Horiki-rimura,” 432n85; “An advertisement for a change in position,” 322–23; “Afflicted with

Xu You, 92, 392n60 Xuan, King of Qi, 403n62Xue Juzhou, 164Xunzi, 433n5

Yaguchi Kensai (Seizaburō): attended poetry gathering, 55–56; biography of, 383n50; dis-patched to Ezo, 62–66, 74, 80, 85, 182–83, 385n74, 386n85; expedition to Karafuto, 63, 385n76; fondness for drink, 386n82; poem by Suzuki addressed to, 386n85; relationship with Ryūhoku, 65, 66; residence of, 54, 160; in shijin and bunjin realms, 80; taken prisoner by Meiji, 218

Yamaguchi Naoki, 415n128Yamamoto Taketoshi, 270–71, 424n17Yamamoto Yoshiaki, 294, 315, 338, 380–81n27Yamaoka Kintō, 398n135Yamaoka Sōzaemon, 398n135Yanagawa Seigan, 383n53, 405n114Yanagawa Shunsan: member of Ryūhoku’s social

circle, 161, 188; memorial for, 195; as newspaper-man, 195, 214, 413n83, 422n1; “Presented to Master Suien to congratulate him on his glo-rious advancement,” 197–98; publications of, 182, 410n42; sequence with Ryūhoku in End-less Ivy, 192; spent time with Ryūhoku during confinement, 35, 193

Yanagibashi pleasure quarters: changes brought by Meiji Restoration, 236–37, 241–42; com-pared with Yangzhou, 229, 238; comparison with “eastern hills,” 148, 175, 178, 236, 354; encounters with Western scholars in, 128; excursions to, 129, 129–30, 161, 170, 188–89, 206; female entertainers of, 141, 145–46; illus-tration by Utagawa Kuniteru, 122; name of, 140–41, 403n65; poems connected with, 123, 131; Ryūhoku’s introduction to, 34, 123. See also boathouses; geisha; New Chronicles of Yanagibashi; Yanagi (Willow) Bridge: depicted on map, 29; in illustration of Yanagibashi, 122

Yanagi (Willow) Bridge: depicted on map, 29; in illustration of Yanagibashi, 122

Yanagiwara: depicted on map, 29; mentioned in New Year’s poem, 46, 380n27

Yang Guifei, 397n120Yangzhou, 229, 238, 432n79Yao (sage ruler), 220Yasuda Jirōkichi (Unpeki), 176, 224–25, 410–

11n42; “On sending Yasuda Unpeki off to Kanagawa to study English books,” 182–83

Yasuda Zenjirō, 434n32

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Zeami, Tadanori, 105, 396n107, 397n109Zeng Dian, 358Zhang Bowei, 372n34Zhang Ji, “Maple Bridge Night Mooring,”

425n39Zhang Liang, 419n69Zhang Xun, 416n5Zhao Tuo, 64, 386n80Zhenzong (Song emperor), 111Zhong Rong, Shipin (Poetry gradings), 13Zhong Ziqi, 151, 181, 404n99Zhongshan shihua, 376n104Zhou Dunyi, “On the Love of the Lotus,” 98,

395n88Zhu Xi, 86, 163, 398n131, 400n10Zhu Yun, 71–72Zhuangzi, 155, 165, 225, 320, 405n109; “New

Zhuangzi,” 313–14, 328n7; parody of, 314; and the press laws, 359

Zhuge Liang, 392n58, 401n27; “Memorial on sending out the troops,” 386n83

Zisi (Confucius’s grandson), 177zither: associated with Tao Yuanming, 81, 151,

213, 389n12; of Bo Ya, 181, 404n99Zong Lin, Jing Chu suishiji (A record of the

annual and seasonal customs in Jing and Chu), 379n15

Zuo zhuan (Zuo commentary), 387n95, 82

zatsuroku columns (continued) discontentment,” 429n30; “Agile advance, quick retreat,” 336–37; “Appealing unjust charges on the dolls’ behalf,” 350; “A boat at midstream,” 362; “The brush can kill a man,” 319–20; “As the brush travels,” 429n30; “Dec-laration of escape,” 429n30; “Diary of washing away melancholy,” 365; “A half-smoked ciga-rette,” 366; “How biased is the Preserve the Nation Society!” 335; “In all areas, select what is good,” 334; “Internal affairs at Journal of Blossoms and the Moon,” 325; “The jade of Oyabegawa,” 349; “Lament of the Loincloth,” 273–76, 284, 286, 424n22; “Lament of the Newspaperman,” 276–77, 284, 286; “Launder-ing for the mind,” 365; “A madman doesn’t think he’s mad,” 335–36; “Medicinal drip-pings,” 366; “New Year’s Greeting,” 427n74; “New Zhuangzi,” 313–14, 328n7; “Poetic expo-sition on shrinking in fear,” 295–97, 298–300, 426n64; “Pond-Fish Society,” 320–21; “Ram-bling notes from a journey,” 313, 428n3; “A record of cooling off,” 293–94; “A sedge hat,” 363; “Theory of the comic,” 358; “A theory of the Seven Gods of Fortune,” 284–85; “A treatise on the Fire Guard,” 322–23; “What is the principle of the Loyalist Party?” 350–51; “The winds of Hamamatsu,” 363