The foundations of Japan

Chapter 43

Chapter 434,032 wordsPublic domain

Commercial side 65; Company 207; Consolidation of holdings 364; Crop statistics errors 404; "Encourager" 176; Experiment station 158, 176-7, 207, 370; Experts 207, 283, (respect for) 54; Foundation and means to an end ix, 27; Foreign 365, 367; v. "Foreign relations" 414; and Family system 330; Faults of 65; like Gardening 307; God of 145; Goddess of 312; Helpful 180; Holdings, Consolidation of 368; How to teach 27; Grazing 240, (British) 385; Hydraulic engineering 149; Industry and Commerce 284; Implements 268; Improvement, Principles of 370; Land, how used, 408; Machinery 365, 367-8-9; in praise of 10; Methods 208; Limitations imposed on 365 (2), 367; Merits 365; National Agricultural Society 378; Night work 359; Number of families engaged in 412; Relations to national welfare 369, 370-1; Pasture 111, 409, (British) 385; Petite Culture 346; Production not final aim 367; Profitable 232, 373; Progress 261; Remedies 368-9, 370; Revolutionising 367; and Religion 231; Schools, see Schools, 176, 375; Shortcomings 365; Strikes 88; Students not leaving land 285; Subsistence provided by 365; Small farms decreasing 394; Tenants' Movement, see Landlords; Without rice 381 (2)

Aichi 1-67, 84, 345

"Aiming at being Distinguished" 124

Ainu x, 25

Akagi 315

Akita 189, 190, 193

Alimentary tract, 348, 351

Allah 98

"All family smiling" 137

Alpinist 290

Alps, 127, 152, 262

_Amado_ 277

"A man's a man," etc. 95

_Amé_ 191

America, see Hokkaido, 137, 141, 288, 290, 363 (2); Rice culture 365-6

_Amida_ xxx, 129

_Amma_ 108, 133

Ammonia water 177, 251

Amphibious labour 358

Amusements, see Farmers, 180, 287, 374, 378

Ancestors 19, 26, 33, 38 (3), 58, 61, 67, 94, 178

Anchors 211

Angelo, Michael, 103

Angling 245

Anglo-Japanese Alliance xv; Anglo-Saxons 203

Animals Bird artists 344; Buddhism and 59; Food, see Meat, 349; Industry 346, 348; Knack of looking after 343; Liking for 221, 343; Power 365, 370; Tillage 406

Anjo 57

Anniversaries 50

Antelopes 110

Anti-Landlord movement 37, 88

Ants 47

Aomori 189, 194, 195, 334, 354, 391

Aoyama 66

"A plain householder" 150

Apostle and artist 90

Appetiser 268

Apples, see Hokkaido, 194, 289, 402

Appointments 125; Tax 21

Apprentices 411

Apricots 289

Aqueduct 64

Archery 39, 40, 159

Architecture 198

Ardour 124

Area 65, 390; and Habitable compared with other countries 385, 392; per Family 42, 89 (2)

Armaments 93, 97, 394; U.S. expenditure 394

Armour 36, 40

Arm rest 246, 319

Army 202, 346, 350, 360 (2), 403; Discipline 361; and Farmer ix; Officers and Agriculture 362; Railway service 297

Arnold, Matthew, 24, 272

Arrests postponed 280

Arson 56, 280, 282

Art 99, 214, 369; Degenerated 99; and Farmer ix; Hills in 120; Korean 103; Influence of Western 103-4; Artists 99, 100; Sketches at festivals 193; Artistry 317; Artistic treasures 369; Artistic world 102-3-4-5, 328

Artificials, see Manure

Artisans 317; with land and houses 268; see Farmers

"_Asahi_" 90, 109

Asama, Mt., 143

Asceticism 101

Asia, see West and East, 202; Residents in 410; Asiatic Mainland 351, 363; Asiatic Society of Japan 364 "Aspiring" young men 135

Assaults 282

Assentation 14

Associations against Landlords 88; for Economical agricultural Students 176; Spirit of 16

"At twenty I found" 150

Athletics, see under different names, 159

Attempts to deceive the West 174

Attitude for foreign student 254; of world, 371; to something higher; see Materialism, Spirituality

Attorney-General, 345

Audience, 24

Australia, 127, 352-3, 363 (2), 388; Might have possessed, 363

Author Attitude towards Japan, xii; before domestic shrine, 33; Carried, 308; Chats in trains, 176; "Fortune", 138; First Englishman in place, 126; Governor and, 84; on Hearn, 254; Some Conclusions, see Hokkaido, 369; and Police, 53; Reception at Shinto Shrine, 45; Shinto address to, 46; Speeches, 6, 26, 31, 254; Tree planting, 45; Welcome, 22; at Wrestling match, 297

Authority Disobedience to, 285; Power going, 330

Autobiography of a Farmer-Egotist, 61

Autographs, 38, 324

Automobile, see Chauffeur, 205

Autumn, 214

"Average workers", 62, 377

Awakening, 324

Axholme, Isle of, 71

_Aza_ xxv, 15, 16, 262, 315

Azaleas, 316

Babies, 285

Backbreaking, 75, 208

Back to the Land, 88

Backwardness of North, see Japan, Northern

Bacon, 347

Bacon, Lord, xii, 309

Bactericides, 60

"Bad tea has its tolerable," etc., 123

Bag and string, 312

Balls, Black and red, 19

Bamboo, 48, 318, 244, 248; Grass, 70, 108, 352, 368; and Mice, 108; Rate of growth, 242; Shoots, 136; Work, 248

_Bancha_, 294, 403

Bankruptcy, 138

Banks, 205, 303, 402, 414

Banqueting, 357

_Banzai_, 43

Barbers, 224, 267

Barefoot, 64

Bark strips, 190

Barley, 146, 175, 196, 307, 313 (3), 349, 351, 386, 389, 391, 409, 410; Big crop, 313; Husking, 389; Naked, 409; with and without Rice, 47, 80, 85, 383, 387; Production compared with Wheat, 413

Barons x, 204

Barriers ix, 104

Barter, 122

Barton, Sir E., 9

_Basha_, see Hokkaido, 244; story, 217

Baskets, 177, 215

Baths x, 17, 50, 82, 109, 112, 116-7, 190, 203, 215, 256, 277, 314, 354; "A moral bath", 94; Bathing, 125, 152, 186

Battleship, 235

Bayonets, Imitation, 282

Bazin René, 141

Beans, see Soya, 147, 199, 307, 383, 409; Cake, 386

Beardsley, Aubrey, 98, 103

Bears, see Hokkaido, 110

Beauty, see Hokkaido, 104, 127, 298

"Be diligent", 158; "Be serious", 112

Beef, see Kobe beef, 259, 349, 350; Essence, 158

Beer, see Hokkaido, 119, 396

Bees, 196, 348

Beggars, 265, 324

Begonia, 213

Behaviour, Training in good, 259

Belgium, 386

Beliefs, see Customs, 310, 331;

Believers, 63; Believer and ne'er do well, 5

Belly cloths, 269

_Benjo_, 151, 192, 374

Ben Nevis, 394

_Bento_ 110, 268, 279

Bergson, 99

_Beri beri_, 79

Berry, Sir G., 9

Better living, 370; Better world, 90

_Bi_, 126

Bible, 95

Bicycles, 18, 150, 220

Binyon, L., 292

Birches, 316

Birds, 25, 117, 344

Births, see Still; Celebration of, 302; Forbidden, 236; Rate, 392; Tax, 21

Biscuits, 270

_Biwa_, 289

Black and white company, 187

Black Country, 132

"Black saké", 79

Blacksmith, 264

Blake, William, 98, 103, 105-6

Blind, see _Amma_, 192, 300; Advantage of Blindness, 232; Blind guides, 369; Headman, 229

Blood and thunder stories 121

Boar day 126

Boasting 17

Boat, sacred, 257

Body 226

Boehme 99

Bog 390

"Bold is the donkey driver" 98

Bolting ideas 331

_Bon_ 180, 190, 265, 267, 271-2, 302, 361; Songs and dances 189, 190, 197 (2), 274

Bonins 391

Bonito 297

Books 159, 190, 319, 401; Cheap 212; Faults of many about Japan 254; Foreign 141, 196, 248; In demand 60; In a Village Library 60; Shops 244

Booths 115

Boots 236, 284, 346

Borneo 127

Borrow vi, 119, 283

Borrowing, see Credit, _Ko, Tanomoshi_; 125, 183

Boswell, 140, 175

Bottles, tied with rope, 119

Bowing 44 (2), 46, 83, 121, 286, 313

Bowels 348, 351

Bowls, Turning, 111; at shrine 303

Box for letters for Police 111

Boy Growth of 113; Labour 411; Tradesmen's 315; Reformation of 178; Running away 322; Stolen 286; "Boy San" 103

Brazil 401

Bread 80 (2), 346 (2), 350-1 (2), 383

Bream 297

Breath 117

Brewing, see Hokkaido, 119

Bribery 208, 400; 123, 303

Bride 21; Chest 129, 379

Bridges 128, 132, 240; Mysteriously repaired, 287; Suspension 209

Briefness 292

Bright, John, 203

Britons, see Hokkaido, 403

Broadmindedness 326

Brontë, E., 99

Brothels 56, 222, 243

Brother, Eldest, 19, 329

Brotherly union 94-5

Buckwheat, see Hokkaido; 111, 122, 243, 264, 381, 409; "As white as snow" 111

Buddha 1, 3, 4, 5, 19, 26 (2), 51, 58 117, 125, 142, 205-6; Inferior 139; Heads 310. --Buddhism 19, 30, 42, 57 (2), 63 (3), 96, 101, 197, 205, 210, 212, 322, 324; and Animal life 59, 345, 347; behind the age 6; without Buddha 322, 327; and Christianity 59, 100-1, 324, 362; Definition of 93; Difficulty of getting a general view of 327, 321; England and 100; of old time 258; Too aristocratic 1 Buddhist 91, 96, 129; Gatherings 231; Influence 259; Literature 327, 331; Real 63; Sects, under names; Services 3, 205 (2), 270; Strict 30; Y.M.A. 124; Y.W.A. 124. --Buddhist Priests, see _Bon_; 1-7, 96, 113, 118, 134, 142, 194, 231, 240, 258, 264, 269, 270 (2)-1-2, 302, 314; Priest's man 270-1; Succession to 135; Wives 6, 270; Shrines 220, Value of 273; Temples, 113, 123, 134, 142, 176, 180, 211, 244, 249, 258-9, 269, 310, 327; Architecture 134, "Church" 134, New, 313, Sleeping in x; Two months in 262, Underground passage 142

Buffoon 276

Bugles 15-17

Bulls 18, 249, 250; Fighting 228

Burden of the Old 100

Burdock 48, 146, 410

Bureau of Horse Politics 195; of Hygiene 350

Burials, see Graves, 121, 267, 306; at Sea 225

Burnham, Lord, 9

Burns, Robert, 107, 288

_Bushido_ 25, 140

Businesses, linked, 315; "Business, My," 326

Butter 142, 270, 346

Butterflies 127, 287

Cabbage 53, 213, 440

Caffeine 292, 403

Cairo 390

Calendar 136

California 290, 363, 365-6

Camphor trees 219

Canada 388

Cancer 268

Candles 340

Canning, see Hokkaido, 368; Canned meat and fish 268

Cape 267, 270

Capes 47

Cape Wrath 358

Capitalism 368-9

Caps 114, 301

Caramels 272

Carbon bisulphide 60

"Carelessness" 54

Carlyle, T., 90-1, 94, 99

Carp, 39, 158, 210, 299

Carpenter 99, 267, 317

Carrier's conversation 109

Carrot 410

Carts 209; Push 194

Carving 269

"Case for the Goat, The," 347

Cast 94

Cats 47, 131, 221, 345

Cattle, see Cow, Oxen, Bulls, Hokkaido; 23, 194-5, 230, 240, 243, 316, 347, 381, 406; Keeping 194, 259, 402; Thieves 195

Cedar wood 211

Cells 116, 143

Censorship 401

Census 393-4

Cereals 367, 404

Certificate of merit 213

Cezanne 98, 103

_Chadai_ 148

Chaff 386

Chainmakers 170

Chairman 24

Champagne 140

Changes, seeming, 331

_Cha-no-yu_ 31, 214, 319

Character 88, 151, 201, 203-4-5-6-7 258, 259, 269, 288, 290, 311, 317, 323, 331-2; Nature and 99; Weakness of 101; Wish to give before have anything 102; Chinese 39

Charcoal 111, 122-3, 196

Charitable Institutions 59, 376

Charms 41, 47, 121, 125, 223, 245

Charring 227

Chastity 114, 139, 149

Chauffeur 240, 246

Chavannes, Puvis de, 98, 103

Cheek-binding 286

Cheerfulness 304, 317

Cheese 345

Chemist, Distinguished, 10

Chenille 142

Cherries 295, 319; Poems 288; Refineries 226

Chestnuts 121

Chiba 268, 297, 309, 321

Chicken 110, 349

Chief Constable, Influence of, 118

_Chihō_ 400

Children 110, 112, 117, 203, 216, 323, 377; Childbirth 268; Ages of 113; Assaults on 229; British exploitation of 170; Charm to obtain 314; Contracts 286; Crimes against 114; Marriage 197; Politeness 121; Services for 130; and Temple 58; What will he become? 60; Workers, see Labour, 314

Chillies 41

Chimneys 147, 151

China 110, 127, 143, 214, 256, 306, 344, 347, 388, 390, 396-7, 404; War 85, 311; Chinaman in Formosa story 96; Tea 296; Relations with 91; Chinese competition 399; Labour 363; Prisoners 307; Scriptures not understood 331; Sheep and wool 353-4-5-6

_Cho_ xxiv; _Chō_ xxv

Chokai, Mount, 182

Chopsticks 81

Chōsen, see Korea

Christ 55, 95, 96, 127; Christianity, see Hokkaido, 96, 99, 101, 198, 205, 324; Christian, 99, 203, 362 (3); a Japanese question 144; and Buddhism 101, 108, 324, 327, 362; Conceptions 96, Early 91; Essence of 94 (2); Ethics of 362; Influence of 94; Japanese 83, 135, 261; and Personality 362; and Social reform 362; Temperament 327; Christmas 318; Churches 96, 362

Chrysanthemum 318

Cicada 344

Cider champagne 119

Cigarettes 82, 288, 400

Cimabue 106

Cities xxv; workers 87

Civilisation 96, 141, 216, 229

Clan 188

Classes 94, 251

Cleanliness 326, 354

Clerks 205

Climate, see Hokkaido, Weather; 88, 140, 195-6, 197, 198, 299, 309, 327, 358, 363, 365, 372, 390, 413

Cloak 47, 76

Clock 252

Clothing, see Farmers, 19, 30, 74, 125, 193, 307, 312, 317, 321, 323, 330, 346, 355-6-7, 374, 378, 380, 382; Advantages and Disadvantages of 356; Cotton and Silk v. Wool 356; Foreign 283, 346, 352

Clover 263

Clubhouse 305

Coal, see Hokkaido, 226, 396

Coasting steamers 209; coastwise traffic 256

Coat 47

Cobbett, William, ix

Cockfighting 228

Coffin 121, 248

Cold 261; Catching 312

Collectors, Boy, 230

Colleges 158

Colony 207

Colouring 295

Comeliness 204

Comfort 201, 203; Bags 58

Comic interlude 84

Commerce, 414; Uselessness of some, 369; Commercial crash 87

Common good, Work for, 19; Common humanity 34; "Common people at the gateway" 252; Common purpose in mankind 56

Commune 268; Communal labour 263; Communistic 212

Communities under 5,000 and 10,000 population 412

Companies 414

Complaint boxes 18

Concentration 206, 317

Concrete 22, 214, 325

Concubines 95, 322

Conduct 200, 361

Coney Island 325

Confucianism 91, 96, 101, 205 (3), 214, 322

Confusion 101

Conscience 201

Conscription, see Soldiers, 19, 65, 123, 284, 311 (2), 327, 331, 364; Statistics 404

Conservative view 331

Consolation 201, 321

Constitutional Party 395

"Contagion of foreigners" 117

Contentment 7, 259, 264, 302, 323

Contracts 194, 286

Controversy 48

Conversation, Subjects of, 129, 282

Conviction 37, 331

Cooking 350 (2)

Coolies 345

Co-operation, see Cocoons, Hokkaido, _Kō_, _Tanomoshi_, 7, 28-9 (2), 37 (2), 43, 47, 50, 58, 64, 85, 118, 124, 133, 136, 150, 185, 187, 194, 230, 305 (2), 364, 414; Capital for 48; More 370

Copper 92, 124, 226, 396

Coronation 21; Rice Ceremony 82; Millet 213

Corruption 208, 400

Cosmos 202, 206

Cottages, see Houses

Cotton, 132, 137, 223, 258, 404; Clothing 346; Chinese competition 399; Factories 174; Industry 354; Loom 220; Factory Manager's _Manchester Guardian_ article 399; Silk v. Wool 366

Couch grass 265

Counsel 187

Countess 213

Country folk xiv, Countryman ix, xiv, 107, 141, 192, 233, 283, 302, 324, 331; Countryside 148, contrasted with Western 298, 313; County families and Country-house life 34

County Agricultural Association 150 (2)

Courage, Moral, 327

Courbet 103

Court lady 108

Courtesy, see Politeness, 36

Cows, see Paddies; First milking 235; Oxen, 209, 235, 381 (2)

Crab, Land, 249

Cradle 279

Craftsmanship 314, 317, 369

Crashaw 99

Crater 108-9

Credit, see Cheap money; Cooperation 181, 370, 414

Crematoria 48, 177

Crest, see _Mon_

Crime, see Police, 54, 279, 303; Charges not proceeded with 113; Table of crimes 376; Ex-criminals 143

Crimea 390

Crisis, Industrial and Commercial, 87

Crops 313, 380-1; see Agriculture, Paddies, Upland; Area devoted to each 408-9; Better 19, 370; Competitions to increase 58; Drying 208; Increase compared with area 364

Crow 320

Crowds 250, 259

Crown Prince 282

Cruelty to Animals 344-5

Cryptomeria 6, 40, 45, 61-2, 117, 121, 131-2, 190, 316, 394

Cuckoo 315

Cucumbers 146, 322

Cultivation, see Agriculture, Backbreaking, Cows, Harrowing, Hoes, Horses, Mattock, Paddy, Pony, Ploughing, Rice, Seed, Spade; Area compared with Great Britain 89; Area under 223; Doubling population 97; Increase of area 364, 414; Two or three crops 364; Japan and Great Britain 305; in relation to Stock 406; Methods to be reported 188; in proportion to Wild 408; Prizes 58; Too intensive 233; yearly increase of 408

Culture, see Education, 204

Curio Collectors 2

Curiosity 279

Currency xxiv

Currents, Warm and Cold, 118, 175, 195

Customs 66, 182, 310, 322-3; Houses unprofitable 256, World realisation of cost and inconvenience 256

Cutting out the foreigner 369

Cuttle fish, see Squid, Octopus; 46, 318

Cyanide 177

Cymbals 272

"Daffin" 313

Dagger 40

_Daikon_ 23, 130, 309, 314, 345, 409

Daikon (island) 256

_Daily Mail_ 345

Daimyo 33, 39, 144, 176, 198, 205, 210, 246, 395; ex-Daimyo 329; Castle 209

_Dai Nippon Nōkai_ 320

_Dakushu_ 396

Dam 224-5

Damp 185, 289, 368, 372

Dancing, see _Bon_ Dances; 130, 237, 305; Western 101

Dandelions 307

Danish _Hojskōle_ 50

Dates 290

Daumier 103

Days, of the Dead, 271; of the week 126; Suitable 126; Worked 377-8;

Dead 201, 219; Belief in return of 272; Days of the 271; Return 190; Tablets of, see _Ihai_; Memorials of, see Hair, Teeth, Portraits

Dealers 195

Death Forbidden 236; Presents at 22; Rate 393; Minors 393

Debates 18

Debt, see Farmers; 66, 126, 195 (2), 265, 287, 302, 322-3, 364, 380, 414; for Food 284

"Decency" 125, 193

Deception of the West 174

Deer 215, 278

Defiled 45; Defilement 256

Deforestation, see Afforestation; 92, 152, 176, 180, 318

Deftness 169

Deified men 204

Deities and the Sea 257

Delacroix 102

_De la liberté du travail_ 8

Delay, Advantage of, xiii

Democracy 38, 51, 99; and religion 2

Demon 215

Demonstrations 88

Demoralised men 26

_Dengaku_ 48

Denmark ix, 46, 368; see Danish

Denudation of hills, see Deforestation, 92

"Depths of the people" 93

Derricks 248

"Despised foreign peasant" 96

Destiny 202

Deuteronomy 375

Development, Economic, 206; Moral 206; National 327; Social 206

"Devil-gon" 56

Diagrams 60

Diaries 18, 23, 231

Diastase 268

Dibbs, Sir G., 9

Diet, see Food

Dietetic reform 350

Difficulties 124-5; "Difficulties polish you" 176

Digestive 268

Dikes, Women's work on, 43

Diligence 151; "Diligent people" 62, 377

Diminishing return 65

Dinner 228, 254

Diplomacy, Farmer and, ix

"Direct action" 173

Discipline 50

Discontent 323

Discussion 358

Disease 210, 350

"Disgraceful disease," see Syphilis

Dishonesty 354

Displacements 268

Distinguished man and demoralised man 26

Dividends, Effect of factory, 369

Divorce 126, 197

_Dō_ 134; _Do_ (land) 334

Doctors 123, 241, 268 (2), 399; "Doctor first, God second," 271

Dogs 131, 221, 236, 344-5; Dog day 126; Fighting 228; for _kuruma_ 248

Doing good secretly 219, 323

Doll in tree 244

Domicile 396

_Domori_ 134

"Do not get angry" 150

Doorway inscription 47

_Dorobo_, see Robber

Dossiers 314

"Double licence" 257

Dover and Calais 334

Dowries 138

Dragon Day 126

Drainage see Irrigation, Water; 97, 133, 199, 232

Drapers' stuff 121

Draughtsmanship 102

"Drawing water into one's own paddy" 48

Draw nets 186

Dreamers 363

Dress, see Clothing; Fields, 187; of Honour, 187

Drill 15, 50, 282

Drinking, see Drunkenness

Drivers' hair cutting 318

Drought 132

Drowning 128

Drum 15, 17, 83, 272

Drunkenness 116, 119, 187, 261, 282, 305, 322; see Saké 2

Dürer 103

Dutch 208; Books 150

Dwarf trees, see Trees dwarfed; 52, 220

Dye 295

"Early riser may catch," etc. 57

Early rising 57, 179

Early Rising Societies 14 _et seq_.

Earnestness 168, 277, 308

Earth 126

"Earth is not as," etc. 203

Earthquakes, see Volcanoes 23

East, see also West and East; Wants the best 99; East and West 141; Bridge 101; Inharmony 105; Supposed difference 100; Eastern, Faults of 96; Ideals 96

"Easy minded" 323

Economic conditions and development 149, 206; Economic questions 104; Economic superstition 148; Economy, see Thrift, 19; Economy too small 362

_Edgworthia chrysantha_, see _Mitsumata_ Education, see Farmers, Genius, Hokkaido, Schools, 17, 26, 98, 120, 127, 140, 169, 194, 196, 204, 252, 361, 374, 378; Burden 65; Better 370; Competition for places 195; Ill result of 204, 301, 323; System, repressed by 101; Western 189

Eels 299

Eggs 85, 110, 130, 348-9, 406

Egoist's story 61

Ehime 201, 219, 226

Eights 255

Elder brothers 19, 329

Eldest son 143, 329

El Dorado 88

Electoral offences, see Bribery, Corruption

Electricity 39; Among trees 210; and Fuji 283; Fan 125; Light 211; Torch 300

El Greco 103

Elizabethan scenes 116, 276

Ellis, Dr. Havelock, xiii, 1, 99, 332; Mrs. 253

_Ema_ 326

Embanking 93, 152, 197

Emerson, R.W. 99, 105

Emigration, see Hokkaido (Immigrants); 176, 249, 264, 330, 332 (2), 358, 360, 363, 401, 376, 413-4; Number of emigrants 410; No pressing need 363; Why emigrants do not go to mainland and Formosa 363

Emperor, see also Imperial train; 22, 46, 82, 121, 178, 202, 286; Etiquette 44; Portrait 90, 113; Respect for 44; Seeing 43

Empire, To extend the 205

Endurance 261

_Engawa_ 270, 271, 280, 375

England: and Buddhism 100; and Christianity 97; Greatness of 97; and Greek Philosophy 97; and Roman law 97

English (language) 126, 282, 297; Reader (book) 234; Speaking world and Japan xv

"Enlarge people's ideas" 17

"Enlarging mind and heart" 11

Entertainers 108

Epidemics 121, 130, 223

Erotic West 101

Eruption, see Volcano

"Essential out of trifles" 323

Estates, see Hokkaido; Smallness of 213, 400

_Eta_ 221, 223, 248, 307, 400; in America 401; Marriages 400

Ethical evolution 348

Etiquette, see Manners; 6, 19, 35, 39, 124, 148, 200, 213, 242, 273; in roadway 47

Europe 288, 410; Half civilised 141

European 141

_Eurya ochnacea_, 137

Evening primroses, 120

"Even in this good reign," 124

"Even the devil was once," etc., 123

"Even the head of a sardine," 141

Evolution, Ethical, 348

Excel, Desire to, 158

Excreta, see Manure; 375, 382, 386

Excursions, 18, 297

Exercise, 151

"Exert yourself to kill harmful insects," 286

Exhibition, see Show; also Bural Life Exhibition; 58, 60

Ex-officials, 22; Ex-preacher, 220; Ex-Public Servants' Association, 22

Expansion, 360, 413-4; Suggested abandonment of oversea possessions, 93

Expenditure, see Farmers

Experts, see Agricultural Experts; 27, 237, 240

Exports, 414; Some useless, 369

Eyesight, 327

Faces, Good will do, 26

Factories, see also Tuberculosis, 282; ante-Shaftesbury, 167; Bathing 163; Babies 162-3; Better treatment, more silk, 165; _Bon_, 162; British and American conditions, 406; Child workers, 172; Chimneys, 151; Compounds, 162; 164-5, 168 (2); Contracts, 162-3, 165; "Cost of a daughter's food," 162; Dexterity, 169; Diet, see Parliament; Discharged workers, 88; Dividends and effect of, 193, 369; Dormitories, 162, 164 (2)-5, 168 (2), 399, 407; Education and Entertainment, 162, 164 (2)-5, 168; Earnestness 169; Effect of, 162-3, 181, 280, 283; Empress, 164; English parallels, 167-8, 170 (2); Fair treatment of Employees practicable, 168; Flag system, 161, 164; Food, 161-2-3 (2)-4, 168, 399; Foremen, 162-3, 165; Girls, 2, 85, 264; Government, 172-3; Health, 161-2-3-4 (2); Heat, 161; Holidays, 161, 165; Hours (thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen), 161, 163 (2)-4-5 (3), 167; Illness, 161-2-3-4, 168; Immorality, 163 (2); International Labour Office, 172; _Kemban_, see Recruiters, Köfu, 165; Kuwata, Dr., 172; Labour cheap, 169 (2), 173; Labour docile, 173; Legislation, 165, 171; Married women, 162; Marriages, 163; Morale, 168; Mottoes, 164 (3)-5; Number of workers, 168; Obedience, 169; Parliament, 173 (2); Police 166; Pressure 161; Priests and Missionaries, 162, 165; Proprietors, 163 (2)-4-5, 167-8; Recruiters, 161-2-3, 166; Sleeping, see Dormitories; Suwa, 165; Switzerland, 172; Wages 161-2, 164-5, 167-8; Walpole's History, 167; Washington Conference, 173; Western responsibility, 173; "Worked like soldiers," 164; and daimyo's castle, 176; and farmers, 282; Silk 147, 150, 161; Tea 403; Visits to, 161; Woollen, 354-5-6-7

Failures, A country's, due to, 167

Fairies, 110

Faith, 27, 97, 148; "Faith is the mother," etc., 136

Fame, Worldly, and good repute, 324

Familiarity, 273

Family, 61, 326; Discords, 282; "Excesses," 302; Large, Appreciation of, 302, 331; Size of, see also Limitation of, 66, 331 (2), 377; Number in, 412; System, 285, 328-9, 330

Famines, 118, 124, 197, 237, 413

Fans, 115, 148, 314

Farmers, see also Adjustment, Agriculture, Area per family, Countryman, Debt, Heroic peasant, Labour, Paddy, Peasant Proprietors, Rice, Tenants, Work; Ability, 65; Aged mother, 3; and Adjustment, 71; and Artisan, 189; Attraction of towns, 180; and Copper companies, 92, 227; Egotist 61; and M.P. 92; and reading, 319; and thieving priest, 320; Attitude towards Science, 158; as poets 41; Autobiography, 8; Bondage 331; British, 370; Capital, 42; Character needed, 50; Children clever, 233; Clothing, 186; Condition, 18, 173, 189, 283-4-5, 265, 304, 310 (2), 314, 322, 354, 365, 378; Condition improved, 261; Condition of success, 10; Days working, 232 (3); (hand work, heavy spade, long-handled sickle, mattock, sickle, scythe, weeding 385-6;) Debts 42; Expenditure, 62, 381-2; Evicted by Railways, 250; Families 412; for and against Family system 330; Fishermen 210; Foreign sympathy excessive 261; Food 378, 380-1, 389; in sericultural districts 85; Future 303; Holidays, too small, Home, 61; 281; Good humour 186; Hours worked 278; Idealising of 260; Importance of Character, Education and Influences brought to bear on 85; Incomes too low 38; Lowest on which can live 194; of an M.P. and of a Minister of State 9-10; Increased expenditure 88; Intelligence of 186; Knowledge of financial position 186; Laboriousness 298; Lack of cash 251; Large, see Hokkaido; Limitations imposed by area, practice and physical conditions 88, 364 _et seq._; Long hours, see Day's working, 167; Metayer system 207; Meeting of skilful 24; Middle 183, 189, 193, 378, 380; Mixed, see Hokkaido; Monument 251; Morality 66; No time to think 149, 179; Not able 196; Not inferior to a townsman 8; Pilgrimages 252; Pluck, industry and need of land 152; Poverty 176, 183, 195; Pressure on 148; Profit, see Hokkaido; Self-contained existence no longer 66; Selling land 10; Shall rent be paid in cash? 301; Small decreasing, large increasing, 89; Social precedence, 369; Spade 362; Stories 24-25; Temporary prosperity 87; Tenants' movement, see Landlords; Thatch for implements, 220; "Toil never ending" 365; Unrepresented in Parliament 285; Why better off 85; Why poor 65; Wives 30; Working days 237; Yosōgi's story 66

Farce 320

Fashions 19

Fasting 327

Fat 142

Father and son 8, 135, 205 (2); Father-in-law 138

Feast, name of, 34

Feeling 210;