Japanese Girls and Women / Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Alice Mabel Bacon

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1891, 1902,
By ALICE MABEL BACON.

All rights reserved.

To
STEMATZ, THE MARCHIONESS OYAMA,
IN THE NAME OF OUR GIRLHOOD'S FRIENDSHIP, UNCHANGED AND UNSHAKEN BY THE CHANGES AND SEPARATIONS OF OUR MATURER YEARS,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Childhood	[1]
II.	Education	[37]
III.	Marriage and Divorce	[57]
IV.	Wife and Mother	[84]
V.	Old Age	[119]
VI.	Court Life	[138]
VII.	Life in Castle and Yashiki	[169]
VIII.	Samurai Women	[196]
IX.	Peasant Women	[228]
X.	Life in the Cities	[262]
XI.	Domestic Service	[299]
XII.	Within the Home	[327]
XIII.	Ten Years of Progress	[371]
	Appendix	[423]
	Index	[473]

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.