Meanings and Pronunciation of Japanese Words used in the Text.

1. Pron. Day-shee-mah.   Little island.
2. Pron. Nang-ah-sah-kee.
3. Pron. Shoh-goon.   General-in-chief.
4. Pron. Die-mee-yoh.   This word means Great Name.
5. Pron. Sah-moo-rye.
6. Pron. Yed-doh, now Tokyo (pron. To-kee-yoh), or Eastern Capital.   Yedo was the capital of Old Japan, from 1600 to 1868.
7. Pron. kee-yoh-toh.   The real capital of Old Japan.
8. Pron. Ten-slice Sah-mah.   Lord of Heaven.
9. Pron. Toh-koo-ngah-wah.
10. Pron. Ee-yay-yas.
11. Pron. Sav-kee-gah-hah-rah.
12. Pron. Moh-ree.
13. Pron. Cho-shu.    In the southwest part of the Island of Hondo, the mainland of Japan.
14. Pron. Yash-kee.
15. Pron. Ee-yay-meets.
16. Pron. Moots'-shtoh.
17. Pron. hah-kah-mah.   Loose trousers, part of the dress reserved to knights and nobles.
18. Pron. kah-yah-kee.   A hardwood.
19. Pron. show-jet.
20. Pron. ah-may.
21. Pron. hte-hat-chee.   A charcoal brazier, to warm the hands or light the pipe.
22. Pron. Keé-moh-noh.
23. Pron. Hie!, hie!   Meaning "yes" or "coming".
24. I have translated the conversations in intelligible English. To give the forms of self-abasement of the speaker, and the titles of honor to the person addressed, would sound ridiculous to us.
25. Pron. On-nah Die-gah-koo.   A book giving the rules for married women.
26. Pron sah-kee.
27. Pron. Hat' toh ree.
28. Pron. Mets' kay.   An official spy, appointed by the Shogun government.
29. Pron. Go-roh-jui (u the French sound).   Hon. Great Council which issued all orders from the Shogun to the great Daimiyo.
30. Pron. Sah-wah.
31. Pron. Noh-re-moh-noh.   A sort of sedan chair.
32. Pron. Ee-toh.
33. Pron. Toh-kie-doh.   The great highway running from Tokyo to Kyoto.
34. Pron. Mee-toh and I-dzoo.   Two clans belonging to the Tokugawa family.
35. Pron. Ee-ee Nah-oh-skay.   Daimiyo of Hikoni and regent of Japan, who was afterwards assassinated.
36. Pron. Ee-no-yay.
37. Pron. how-ree.   A thin mantlet of crepe, with the coat of arms worked on the back and sleeves.
38. Pron. Kee-ee, and 0h-with-ree.   The two estates taken from Choshin and given to the sons of Iyeyasu.
39. Pron. Shtah nee eerool
40. Pron. Ay-kee-chee.
41. Pron. f' ton.
42. The legacy of Iyeyasu, the law book of Old Japan.
43. The plain, east of the Hakone Mountains which contains Yedo.
44. Pron. Nah-kah-sen-doh.    Another highway between Yedo and Kyoto. In the narrowest passes of both roads barriers were placed which no one could pass, except when provided with passports from the government.
45. Pron. roh-neen.    A samurai who did not belong to a clan. The Yedo government held the clan responsible for the acts of its samurai.
46. Pron. Foo-jee.    Kano's chief retainer.
47. Pron. Yah-doh-yah.   An inn.
48. Pron. hee-yahk-show.    Literally peasant.
Pron. Kodz'kie.
49. Pron. ee-thee-roh-koo nee-chee.   Literally one-six day. Until 1874 every fifth day was a holiday for the samurai; these days were the 1st. 6th, nth. 16th, etc.
50. Pron. O Kee-chee.   O before a name means honorable.
51. Pron. tah-tah-mee.   Thick rush mats.
52. Pron. ree-yoh.   Old Japanese coin equal to about $1.00.
53. Pron. neen-zoh-koo;    A coolie or day laborer.
54. Pron. yah-shwee moh-noh.    The name by which the Roman Catholics were known.
55. Issued Jan. 27, 1614.
56. Pron. Ty Coon.    This is really a Chinese word and means Great Prince.
57. Pron. O Ec-shah-sahn.
58. Pron. nar-rah foo-doh!   Which may be translated by; Is that so?—You don't say so! and similar expressions.
59. Pron. hat'-to-bah.   Jetty or landing.
60. Pron. Ay-to.
61. Prom Tay-rah-jee.
62. Pron. Kah-mee'-shee-moh.
63. Pron. sep' poo-koo.   Suicide by disemboweling, commonly called hara-kiri. Pron. hah-rah' kee-ree'
64. Pron. Ee-yay-sah-dah.
65. Pron. Mee-toh.    Of the three great Tokugawa families, Mito, Kii, and Owari, Mito, by a secret clause in Iyeyasu's will was debarred from succeeding as Shogun.
66. Pron. Koong-ay.    Court nobles, descendants from former emperors, who held the same position at the court as did the councillors in the clan.
67. The Court of Tenshi sawa.
68. Pron. Son-noh Joe-ee.
69. Saru-me (pron. sah roo may.   An approbrious term used to express contempt and indignation.
70. Pron. Yah-mah-toh Dah-mash-yee.
71. Pron. Kah-ras-soo Mah-roo.
72. A kugé was of much higher rank than a daimiyo, and even of the Shogun. They did not mention the daimiyo by their estate, but by their family name.
73. Pron. Mee-yah.    Families accounted as Princes of the Blood. Most of them were nurtured like the daimiyo, and wholly unable to think for themselves.
74. Pron. Kee-joh.    One of the leading Kugé families.
75. Pron. kah-kay-moh-noh.    Hanging scroll.
76. Pron. Shce-mad-zoo.    Family name of the lord of Satsuma.
77. According to Confucius.
78. This document is quoted in F. O. Adams' History of Japan.
79. Pron. Shee-moh-noh-say-kee.
80. Pron. Ee-chee-joe, Nee-joe, Hee-gash-ee Koo-zay.
81. Nijo refers to the repulse of the Tartars in 1281.
82. Pron. Ee-say.
83. Pron. tsoo-boh.    A square measure.
84. Pron. ty-foo.    Our typhoon; lit. great storm.
85. A member of the Imperial family, addressing one of inferior rank of the same, uses the given name. Iwakura's given name was Tomomi.
86. There is a street of that name in Kyoto.
87. Pron. Foo-shee-mee.
88. Pron. Cho-tay-kee.    i.e., rebel against Tenshi Sama.
89. Pron. Kay-kee.
90. Confucius.
91. Pron. Oh-dah-wah-rah.    A town at the foot of the Hakome range.
92. Pron. Oh-sah-shtoh.
93. Pron. Koh-may.