The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-09
Japan-Tho Tycoon and n111xaao.


tappears quite likely that after all our care in
making treaties with Japan, tho work is wasted
and WILL have to be done over again We have
sseased e 1 With tue wrSnf man The tycoon it seems
counterfeit tycoon, whom ,the diamios and their
subjects call the shogoon, and who; according to
the fourth subject in the empire" The tycoon.
ship is tho civil executive rulership of Japan, which
is similar in it's functions to those vested in the
functions properly restin the uikado who is also;
the the spiritual rts1 ab or Of Japan In short
Of Japau - He is acknowledged as such by M the
dainlos, and so reverenced and sobcyed by the
people, The shogoon, or counterfeit tycoon. with
Tno aaea the Gntsa ted States England and anee
to bind any part of Japan but his own-let us cali
it dsimioshlp for want of o better name. .As:
mikado and the empire about like that which Gen.
Grant holds in this country. OF conrse this Office,
which is designated by the Japanese by. the word
BY treaties. The treaty-makang power is vested in
the mikado and his ministers.
The e1vi! war which has recently boen raging be-
tween Choisi,., daimio Of Nasato, and tho sho-
goon, was brought about by the attempt of the
Latter to enforce the stpulations Of his treaties
upon the s::hjects Of Choisiu, who as he had per
Tect right under the laws of his country, rebeled
and defended his territory by force Of arms. j In
deed, aloyal subject OF the n1kado it was Choi-
aus e the tycoon e.
ma and Choisiu have entered into an alliance to
oppose any further usIr pltiohs from tho Yedo
Government Into. this alliance the prospect now
Is thnt very nearly au the dai1nios, great and
small, will soon enter, and then, Of course no part
Of the empire Of Japan will be under treaty ar-
irangements with hewestern powers, but the sin
gle daimiosh1p of the shogoon at Yedo. This in
cludcs, we believe, the three towns-Yokohama,
kAnagawa (Which is on the opposite sido of the
) bay hom Yokohama) and Nagasali.
Stotsbashi, the present :shogoon, fully conpre-
hends the situation, and it is believed that he will
surrender all pretentions to tho tycoonship rs
soon as the mkado can be prevailed upon to tako
upon himself their active duties, which the spiritu-
nj emperors have neglected for more than centu-
ry, and which, from that cause, have been exer-
cised by the shogoons. 10 otfect this change,
Stotsbashi has called 3 conference of daimios Tor
princes) to meet him some time next spring. 10
this coufere tho foreign ministers will also be
invited, and, IN Ill probability, new treaties will
result from it, in which the mikado, instead Of the
shogoon, will figure rs the high contracting party
on the part OF Japan and that the dainios will all
acquiesce in what he docs. A correspondent Of the
Yokohama Times, writing from Nagasaki, Jan. /,
1857 states that it is the wish of the present sho
goon to turn his treaty business to the mikado
and that he viii makean earnest effort to induce
that potentate, ere long, to emerge from his in
glorious obscurity and take up the burden Of gov
ernment which. his ancestors carried, and which
only the folly and laziness Of some of them ever
allowed to lapse on tho shoulders Of the shogoon
These political movements if consum1nated, will
end the civil wars and greatly enlarge the trade oI
the; empire with the treaty powers of the west.