CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE
Appointment as Student Interpreter at Yedo [17]
CHAPTER II
Yokohama Society, Official and Unofficial [22]
CHAPTER III
Political Conditions in Japan [33]
CHAPTER IV
Treaties—Anti-Foreign Spirit—Murder of Foreigners [42]
CHAPTER V
Richardson's Murder—Japanese Studies [50]
CHAPTER VI
Official Visit to Yedo [61]
CHAPTER VII
Demands for Reparation—Japanese Proposals to Close the Ports—Payment of the Indemnity [72]
CHAPTER VIII
Bombardment of Kagoshima [84]
CHAPTER IX
Shimonoseki: Preliminary Measures [95]
CHAPTER X
Shimonoseki—Naval Operations [102]
CHAPTER XI
Shimonoseki—Peace concluded with Chôshiû [116]
CHAPTER XII
The Murder of Bird and Baldwin [134]
CHAPTER XIII
Ratification of the Treaties by the Mikado [141]
CHAPTER XIV
Great Fire at Yokohama [156]
CHAPTER XV
Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima [167]
CHAPTER XVI
First Visit to Ozaka [185]
CHAPTER XVII
Reception of Foreign Ministers by the Tycoon [194]
CHAPTER XVIII
Overland from Ozaka to Yedo [204]
CHAPTER XIX
Social Intercourse with Japanese Officials—Visit to Niigata, Sado Gold Mines, and Nanao [228]
CHAPTER XX
Nanao to Ozaka Overland [239]
CHAPTER XXI
Ozaka and Tokushima [252]
CHAPTER XXII
Tosa and Nagasaki [265]
CHAPTER XXIII
Downfall of the Shogunate [281]
CHAPTER XXIV
Outbreak of Civil War (1868) [295]
CHAPTER XXV
Hostilities begun at Yedo and Fushimi [310]
CHAPTER XXVI
The Bizen Affair [319]
CHAPTER XXVII
First Visit to Kioto [332]
CHAPTER XXVIII
Harakiri—Negotiations for Audience of the Mikado at Kioto [343]
CHAPTER XXIX
Massacre of French Sailors at Sakai [351]
CHAPTER XXX.
Kioto—Audience of the Mikado [356]
CHAPTER XXXI
Return to Yedo and Presentation of the Minister's New Credentials at Ozaka [364]
CHAPTER XXXII
Miscellaneous Incidents—Mito Politics [373]
CHAPTER XXXIII
Capture of Wakamatsu and Entry of the Mikado into Yedo [386]
CHAPTER XXXIV
Enomoto with the Runaway Tokugawa Ships Seizes Yezo [395]
CHAPTER XXXV
1869—Audience of the Mikado at Yedo [400]
CHAPTER XXXVI
Last Days in Tokio and Departure for Home [409]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The Last of the Shoguns [Frontispiece]
Sir Ernest Satow—1869 [56]
Sir Ernest Satow—1903 [56]
Payment of the Indemnity for the Murder of Richardson [80]
Kagoshima Harbour: Bombardment [90-91]
The Straits of Shimonoseki [106-107]
Interior of a Japanese Battery after the Landing of the Allied Naval Forces [112]
Daimio of Cho-shiu and His Heir [184]
Cho-shiu Councillors [184]
Group Photographed during a Visit to Ozaka [192]
Niiro Giobu, a Satsuma Councillor [272]
Katsu Awa no Kami [272]
The Design on the Cover of this Book is the Family Crest of
the Tokugawa Shôguns.