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to the quickness and courage of a jinrikisha man who interposed between him and his would-be assassin that the present Czar of Russia owes his escape from death at Otsu, near Kyōtō, in 1891.
Footnotes:
[45] Gohei, a piece of white paper, cut and folded in a peculiar manner, one of the sacred symbols of the Shintō faith.
[46] Tengu, a winged, long-nosed or beak-mouthed monster, supposed to inhabit the mountain regions of Japan. It was from a tengu that Yoshitsune, one of the greatest of Japanese heroes, learned to fence, and so became a swordsman of almost miraculous expertness. Oni, a demon or goblin.
EPILOGUE.My task is ended. One half of Japan, with its virtues and its frailties, its privileges and its wrongs, has been brought, so far as my pen can bring it, within the knowledge of the American public. If, through this work, one person setting forth for the Land of the Rising Sun goes better prepared to comprehend the thoughts, the needs, and the virtues of the noble, gentle, self-sacrificing women who make up one half the population of the Island Empire, my labor will not have been in vain.
INDEX.
Adoption, 103, 112, 187.
Agility of Japanese, 13.
Ai, love, 415.
Amado, sliding wooden shutters used to inclose a Japanese house at night, 23.
Amulets, 329.
Andon, a standing lamp inclosed in a paper case, 89.
Ané San, or Né San, elder sister (San the honorific), a title used by the younger children in a family in speaking to their eldest sister, 20.
Aoyama, 131.
Apprentices, 309, 310.
Art in common things, 237-239, 462, 463.
Artisans, 235-239, 270.
Babies, 1-17;
bathing, 10;
conditions of life, 6, 7;
dress, 6, 15;
food, 10, 11;
imperial babies, 8, 9;
learning to talk, 16;
learning to walk, 13, 14;
of lower classes, 7;
of middle classes, 8;
of nobility, 8;
skin troubles, 11;
teething, 12;
tied to the back, 7, 8, 12.
Baby carriages, 424.
Baths, public, 10.
Beauty, Japanese standard of, 58;
early loss of, 122.
Bé bé, a child's word for dress, 16.
Bed, the Empress's, 446.
Betrothal, 60.
Bettō, a groom or footman who cares for the horse in the stable and runs ahead of it on the road, 62, 71, 311, 316, 319.
Bible, circulation of, in Japan, 412-414.
Birth, 1.
Boys, amusements of, 362-370.
Breakfast, 89.
Brothels. See Jōroya.
Buddha's birthday, 365.
Buddhism, 168, 240;
affected by Christianity, 417-421;
introduction of, 143-145.
Buddhist funerals, 131, 132, 347.
Buddhist nuns, 155.
Buddhist priest, story of a, 418-421.
Building, 333-335.
Butsudan, the household shrine used by Buddhists, 323.
Castles, 151, 157, 169, 171, 173, 174, 185, 186, 192.
Chadai, literally "tea money," the fee given at an inn, 251-253.
Cherry blossoms, 28, 146, 166, 176, 177, 191, 295, 296.
Childhood. See Girlhood.
Children, intellectual characteristics of Japanese, 41;
Japanese compared with American, 19.
Chinese characters, 40.
Chinese civilization introduced, 142.
Chinese code of morals, 103, 111.
Christian ideas, progress of, 402-421.
Christianity, 77, 81, 168, 206, 207.
Christians, Japanese, 404.
Chrysanthemum, 166, 296-298.
Civilization, new, 77.
Clubs, women's, 391.
Concubinage, 85, 111.
Confectionery, 146.
Confucius, 103, 168.
Constitution, promulgation of the, 114, 276.
Corea, conquest of, 139-143.
Country and city, 278, 279.
Court, after conquest of Corea, 143-146;
amusements of, 145;
costumes, 146;
in early times, 138, 139;
ladies, 145, 148, 152-154;
life, 138-168;
of daimiō, 171;
of Shōgun, 170, 171;
removal to Tōkyō, 156.
Courtship, 58.
Crown Prince's wedding, the, 434, 442-445, 449-453.
Crucifixion, 199, 234.
Daikoku, the money god, 332.
Dai jobu, "Safe," "All right," 320.
Daimiō, a member of the landed nobility under the feudal system, 169-195;
his castles, 169;
his courts, 17;
his daughters, 175, 177, 180, 182-184, 191, 192-195;
his journeys to Yedo, 171-173;
his retainers, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177-179, 181, 183, 185, 186;
his wife, 175, 177, 182, 192-195;
seclusion of, 172-174.
Dancing, 38, 287, 288.
Dancing girls. See Géisha.
Dango Zaka, 296.
Dashi, a float used in festival processions, 275-278, 366-369.
Days, lucky and unlucky, 331.
Decency, Japanese standard of, 255-260.
Deformity, caused by position in sitting, 9.
Diet, changes in, 424.
Divorce, among lower classes, 66, 69, 73;
among higher classes, 66, 68;
effect of recent legislation on, 374, 439;
new laws, 438, 439;
right to children in case of, 67, 105, 439.
Dolls, Feast of, 28-31, 428-430;
origin of, 428;
present meaning of, 430.
Dress, baby, 6, 15;
court, 145, 146;
in daimiōs' houses, 187, 192;
military, of samurai women, 188;
of lower classes, 126-128;
of pilgrims, 243;
present tendencies, 457;
showing age of wearer, 119.
Education, higher, a doubtful help, 79;
effect on home life, 77;
producing repugnance to marriage, 80.
Education of daimiō's daughter, 177-180.
Education of girls, 37-56;
action and reaction in, 433, 434;
difficulties in new system, 52-56;
fault in Japanese system, 39;
in old times, 37.
Embroidered robes, 95, 146, 188, 192, 456.
Emperor, 111, 114, 134, 151-153, 155-157, 161, 164-166, 292.
Emperors, after introduction of Chinese civilization, 143-145;
children of, 164;
daughters of, 155;
early retirement of, 134;
in early times, 138;
seclusion of, 143-145, 155, 156, 161, 169.
Empress, 88, 115, 140, 150-168.
Empress, Dowager, 152.
Engawa, the piazza that runs around a Japanese house, 23.
Etiquette, court, 153;
in daimiōs' houses, 177-179;
in the home, 19, 20;
instruction in, 46, 47;
of leaving service, 316, 317;
towards servants, 304, 305.
Factory workers, women, 399 note.
Fairy tales, 32.
Family, organization of, 139, 439-442.
Fancy work, 95.
Father's relation to children, 100.
Feast of Flags, 363, 364;
of Lanterns, 358-362;
of the Dead, 358-362;
of Dolls, 28-31, 428-430.
Festivals, of flowers, 27, 99, 295-297;
of the New Year, 25, 349-358;
temple, 270-278, 364-370.
Feudal system, 169.
Feudal times, pictures of, 190-192;
stories of, 184-187.
Firemen, 335, 338, 339.
Flirtation, unknown to Japanese girls, 34.
Flower arrangement, 42.
Flower painting, 47, 432.
Flower shows, 270-272.
Fortune-telling, 281-285, 331-333, 470.
Fuji, 58, 242.
Fukuzawa, his book on the woman question, 387-391;
his will, 345.
Funeral customs, 131, 132, 339-349.
Furushiki, a square of cloth used for wrapping up a bundle, 354.
Games, battledore and shuttlecock, 31, 32;
at court, 145;
go, 136;
hyaku nin isshu, 26, 27;
shogi, 136.
Géisha, a professional dancing and singing girl, 286-289.
Géisha ya, an establishment where géishas may be hired, 286.
Géta, a wooden clog, 13, 14.
Ginza, 265.
Girlhood, 17-34.
Gohei, a piece of white paper folded and cut in a peculiar manner, one of the sacred symbols of the Shintō faith, 464.
Hakama, the kilt-pleated trousers that formed a part of the dress of every Japanese gentleman, also the skirt worn by school-girls over the kimono, 433, 456.
Haori, a coat of cotton, silk, or crêpe, worn over the kimono, 8.
Hara-kiri, suicide by stabbing in the abdomen, 201, 202.
Haru, Prince, 113, 152, 442-444, 446-452.
Haru, Empress, 155-168.
Héimin, the class of farmers, artisans, and merchants, 203, 228, 229;
class characteristics of, 229-240, 464-468.
Hibachi, a brazier for burning charcoal, 30, 72, 136, 307.
Hidéyoshi. See Toyotomi.
Hinin, a class of paupers, 228.
Hiyéi Zan, 243.
Holidays, 269.
Hotel-keepers, 280,
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