Japanese Girls and Women: Revised and Enlarged Edition

								


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By Alice M. Bacon

IN THE LAND OF THE GODS. 12mo, $1.50.
JAPANESE GIRLS AND WOMEN. 16mo, $1.25. In Riverside Library for Young
People. 16mo, 75 cents.
Holiday Edition. With 12 full-page Illustrations in color and 43
outline drawings by Japanese artists. Crown 8vo, gilt top, $4.00.
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cents, net.


HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

  JAPANESE GIRLS AND
WOMEN


BY


ALICE MABEL BACON


REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION


BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

  Copyright, 1891, 1902,
BY ALICE MABEL BACON.


All rights reserved.

  To


STEMATZ, THE MARCHIONESS OYAMA,


IN THE NAME OF OUR GIRLHOOD'S FRIENDSHIP, UNCHANGED AND
UNSHAKEN BY THE CHANGES AND SEPARATIONS OF OUR
MATURER YEARS,


This Volume


IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER                              PAGE



     I. CHILDHOOD                         1



    II. EDUCATION                        37



   III. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE             57



    IV. WIFE AND MOTHER                  84



     V. OLD AGE                         119



    VI. COURT LIFE                      138



   VII. LIFE IN CASTLE AND YASHIKI      169


VIII. SAMURAI WOMEN                   196



    IX. PEASANT WOMEN                   228



     X. LIFE IN THE CITIES              262



    XI. DOMESTIC SERVICE                299



   XII. WITHIN THE HOME                 327


XIII. TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS           371



        APPENDIX                        423



        INDEX                           473

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

In offering a revised edition of a book which has been before the public
for more than ten years, there is little to say that has not been said
in the original Preface. The work as published before, however, was
always, to its author's mind, unfinished, for the reason that a chapter
on household customs, which was necessary for the completion of the
plan, had to be omitted because it could not be written in America.
This defect has now been remedied, and the chapter "Within the Home"
contains the supplementary matter necessary to complete the picture of a