Japanese girls & women

Written during the Meiji Period, the pivotal period in the history of Modern Japan, its unique work offers a fascinating view of Japanese women and girls at the turn of the century. As the author writes in her preface 'While Japan as a whole has been closely studied, and while much and varied information has been gathered about the country and its people, one half of the population has been left entirely unnoticed, passed over with brief mention, or altogether misunderstood. It is of this neglected half that I have written, in the hope that the whole fabric of Japanese social life will be b

Front Cover; Japanese Girls and Women; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Childhood; II.Education; III. Marriage and Divorce; IV. Wife and Mother; V. Old Age; VI. Court Life; VII. Life in Castle and Yashiki; VIII. Samurai Women; IX. Peasant Women; X. Life in the Cities; XI. Domestic Service; XII. Within the Home; XIII. Ten Years of Progress; Index