INDEX
- Politics, the stalwart or rough, iv. 87–90; agitation for representation, 222–224, 226, 228; Liberal party, 228; Progressist party, 229; character, 229, 249–253, 256; agitation against clan control of ministry, 231, 244–246; conditions during Chinese war, 247; Constitutional party, 247; split, 248; Itō's party, 252–255. See also Government (Meiji epoch).
- Population, in eighth century, i. 241; present, vi. 20.
- Portuguese, introduce Christianity and firearms, ii. 32, 69; expelled, iii. 127.
- Postal system, beginnings, iv. 172; conditions, vi. 240.
- Pottery. See Keramics.
- Premier of Tokugawa shogunate, control, iii. 132, iv. 28, 29.
- Prisons, old system, iv. 61; Tokugawa system, 64–68; modern reforms, 68. See also Justice.
- Private opinion, right, iii. 132; lack, iv. 106–109.
- Property, inheritance in ancient Japan, i. 61; wife's rights, 114, 120; inheritance under Taikwa reforms, 119–121; complications due to illegitimacy, ii. 220; rights in Tokugawa epoch, iv. 95.
- Public opinion, inoperative, v. 91.
- Public story-telling, origin of the war story, vi. 100; development, 101; delivery, 102; character, 102; value, 103; school of lighter stories, 103–105; cost of the entertainment, 105, 236.
- Public works, forced labour on, i. 118, ii. 120, 124, iv. 14–17; in Nara epoch, i. 134, 135; riparian, iv. 97, 264, v. 13, 250; extent of modern undertakings, 5, 12, 13.
- Punishments. See Justice, Prisons.
- Pyöng-yang, Korea, battle, v. 56.
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- Railroads, first, v. 101; statistics of state and private, 102; system, 103; construction, 104; conditions, vi. 240.
- Raisai, court family, hereditary accomplishment, iv. 6.
- Regent, establishment and power, i. 167, ii. 2, 14, iv. 5; Hideyoshi as, ii. 36.
- Rekkō, Prince of Mito, heads anti-foreign agitation, iii. 175, 183–185; antagonises the shogunate, 184; plots and is punished, 189; sentiment of his retainers, 191; abandons radical anti-foreign party, 192; effect of death, 210.
- Religion, primaeval, i. 49; union of Church and State, 52, 54, 93; not taught in old university, 128; Japanese attitude toward, 172, 173, 183, v. 152; freedom in mediæval times, v. 112. See also Ancestral worship, Buddhism, Christianity, Festivals, Observances, Shintō, Superstitions.
- Renjo, Buddhist preacher of Ikko sect, ii. 31.
- Renshi, imperial concubine, intrigue, ii. 14.
- Representation, extent of, in old Japan, iv. 219; first modern assembly, 221; agitation for,
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