INDEX
- 222–224, 226, 228; local assemblies, 227, 239, v. 96, 98; promise of national, 231; establishment of national, 238, 241. See also Diet, Suffrage.
- Revolution of 1867, work of men of lower rank, iii. 237, iv. 184; progress, iii. 237–242. See also Government.
- Rice, early culture, i. 122; scarcity in Togukawa epoch, iii. 162, iv. 264; as standard of value, vi. 135; marketing the fief income, 177–180; mediæval exchanges, 180; fixing the standard, 181; inadequate modern supply, 217.
- Richardson, C. L., murdered, iii. 217; effect, 218, 220, 222.
- Riukiu Islands. See Loochoo.
- Roads. See Travel.
- Ronin, origin, i. 163, 255, iv. 50; character, iii. 131; plot against Tokugawa power, 132; assassinate Ii, 192, 255; policy of assassination, 195; conspiracy against foreigners, 199; assassinate Heusken, 201.
- Russia, first contact with, iii. 156, 159, 160; interference in Chinese war treaty, v. 60, 61; seizes Liao-tung peninsula, 64; and Korea, 65, 74; and Manchuria, 73.
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- Sadayuki, chief of Nojiri, loyal sacrifice, ii. 192.
- Saddles, mediæval type and ornamentation, ii. 160.
- Saga, emperor, bestows land on nobles, i. 171.
- Saghalien Island, acquired by Russia, i. 3.
- Saigo, Satsuma reformer, iii. 235; leader in Revolution of 1867, character, iv. 205, 207; resigns from ministry, 208; insurrection, 208, 209, 213.
- Saimei, empress, i. 137.
- Saionji, noble family, furnish imperial consorts, ii. 15, 18; hereditary privileges, iv. 5.
- Sakai, Tokugawa house, hereditary privileges, iv. 28.
- Sakai, trade centre under Hideyoshi, vi. 166.
- Sakakibara, Tokugawa house, hereditary privileges, iv. 28.
- Saké. See Drink.
- Salvage, mediæval law on, vi. 198, 239.
- Samurai. See Military class.
- Sanjo, emperor, superstition, i. 180.
- Sanjo, court noble, radical anti-foreigner, iii. 215; converted to liberalism, 235, 243, 256; leader in Revolution of 1867, iv. 185, 204.
- Sanjo, noble family, hereditary privileges, iv. 5.
- Sanu, Jimmu's life name, i. 32.
- Sanzaemon, Nagoya, originates the theatre, vi. 107.
- Satire, characteristic, iii. 61–64.
- Satsuma, province, anti-Shōgun agitation, iii. 214, iv. 185; capital bombarded, 218, 222; relation with Chōshiu, 234–237; breach with new government, 209, 210, 213. See also Shimazu.
- Seals, origin and use, vi. 157, 237.
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