Category: History - Other
To the Japanese baby the beginning of life is not very different from its beginning to babies in the Western world. Its birth, whether it be girl or boy, is the cause of much rejoicing. As boys alone can carry on the family name and inherit titles and estates, they are conside...
The woman question in Japan is at the present moment a matter of much consideration. There seems to be an uneasy feeling in the minds of even the more conservative men that some...
12. CHAPTER XII.Into the life of a Japanese home enter many customs and observances that have not been dwelt upon in the preceding pages, but without some understanding of which our knowledge o...
1. CHAPTER I.To the Japanese baby the beginning of life is not very different from its beginning to babies in the Western world. Its birth, whether it be girl or boy, is the cause of much re...
10. CHAPTER X.The great cities of Japan afford remarkable opportunities for seeing the life of the common people, for the little houses and shops, with their open fronts, reveal the _penetral...
4. CHAPTER IV.The young wife, when she enters her husband's home, is not, as in our own country, entering upon a new life as mistress of a house, with absolute control over all of her little...
9. CHAPTER IX.The great héimin class includes not only the peasants of Japan, but also the artisans and merchants; artisans ranking below farmers, and merchants below artisans, in the social...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Samurai was the name given to the military class among the Japanese,--a class intermediate between the Emperor and his nobles and the great mass of the common people who were en...
6. CHAPTER VI.The court of the Emperor was, in the early ages of Japan, the centre of whatever culture and refinement the country could boast, and the emperors themselves took an active part...
11. CHAPTER XI.To the foreigner, upon his arrival in Japan, the status of household servants is at first a source of much perplexity. There is a freedom in their relations with the families th...
3. CHAPTER III.When the Japanese maiden arrives at the age of sixteen, or thereabouts, she is expected as a matter of course to marry. She is usually allowed her choice in regard to whether sh...
7. CHAPTER VII.The seclusion of the Emperors and the gathering of the reins of government into the hands of Sh[=o]guns was a gradual process, beginning not long after the introduction of Chine...
2. CHAPTER II.So far we have spoken only of the domestic training of a Japanese girl. That part of her education that she gains through teachers and schools must be the subject of a separate...
5. CHAPTER V.No Japanese woman is ashamed to show that she is getting along in years, but all take pains that every detail of the dress and coiffure shall show the full age of the wearer. Th...