Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (ebook reader for laptop txt) 📖

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,