Japanese Girls and Women / Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Alice Mabel Bacon

• 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], [281].
• Hotels, [247-250].
• Household duties, training for, [21].
• Household worship, [328].
• Hyaku nin isshu, "Poems of a Hundred Poets," the name of a game, [26].

• Inkyo, a place of retirement, the home of a person who has retired from active life, [136].
• Instruction, in etiquette, [46];
  • in flower arranging, [42];
  • in music, [41], [431];
  • in painting, [47], [432];
  • in reading and writing, [38];
  • in tea ceremony, [44].
• Inu, a dog, [250].
• Isé, [231].
• Iwafuji, [210-213].
• Iwakura, Prince, [157].
• Iya, a child's word, denoting dislike or negation, [16].
• Iyémitsŭ, [171], [172].
• Iyéyasŭ, [169].