Japanese Girls and Women / Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Alice Mabel Bacon

• Utsunomiya, [70], [71].
• Uyéno Park, [296].

• Virtue, Japanese and Western ideas of, [215-219].
• Visits, after marriage, [63];
  • in honor of a birth, [1], [2];
  • New Year's, [25];
  • to a house of mourning, [340];
  • to parents, [98];
  • to tombs, [98], [359].
• Voice in singing, [430-432].

• Wakamatsu, [208], [222], [457].
• Wedding. [See Marriage.]
• Widows, childless, [123].
• Wife, childless, [102];
  • duties of, [85-99];
  • in great houses, [92];
  • relation to husband, [84];
  • relation to parents-in-law, [84];
  • social relations, [91].
• Woman question, new feeling about, [371-373].
• Women, general reading of, [386];
  • in the city, [279-298];
  • new openings for, [397-402];
  • occupations of, [85-103], [108-110], [242-256], [279-292], [306], [307], [310-318], [397-402];
  • position of, [17-22], [35], [36], [57], [65-68], [76-88], [90], [91], [93], [99-118], [120-124], [132], [133], [139], [143], [145], [146], [148], [168], [189], [190], [208], [216-219], [223-227], [242-247], [260], [261], [279], [292], [298], [306], [318], [371-378], [438-440];
  • property rights of, [374-378];
  • publications for, [385-391];
  • purity of, [216-219];
  • the new woman in old surroundings, [392-397].
• Women, old, appearance of, [119];
  • examples of, [124], [126-129], [467-469];
  • in Japanese pictures, [132].
• Written language, proposed reforms in, [430].

• Yamato Daké, [215].
• Yasaku, [324];
  • marriage and divorce of, [69-73].
• Yasé, [243], [244].
• Yashiki, a daimiō's mansion and grounds, [169], [171], [173], [311], [313].
• Yedo. [See Tōkyō.]
• Yōshi, an adopted son, [104].
• Yoshiwara, a district in Tōkyō given over to disreputable houses, [409].

• Zodiac, Chinese signs of the, [331].
• Zori, a straw sandal, [13].

Transcriber's Note:

Except where index entries and the body of the text did not match, irregularities in hyphenation (e.g. kwankoba and kwan-ko-ba), italics, and spellings (e.g. vendors and venders) have not been changed. Except where noted below, inconsistent accents (e.g. jōroya vs. jōrōya) have been retained.

The following corrections and changes were made:

• [p. 120]: marumage to marumagé (The marumagé, the style of headdress of married ladies)
• [p. 175]: daimios' to daimiōs' (and daimiōs' houses)
• [p. 351]: kakemonos to kakémonos (the kakémonos and curios)
• [p. 383]: Meiji to Méiji (thirty-fourth year of Méiji)
• [p. 427]: miyage to miyagé (the o miyagé to be purchased)
• [p. 428]: shirozaké to shirōzaké (The shirōzaké (white saké))
• [p. 429]: accents added to Shōguns, Shōgun's, and Shōgunate
• [p. 437]: oufit to outfit (But this outfit)
• [p. 440]: heimin to héimin (héimin, or plebeian)
• [p. 473]: Bé-bé to Bé bé (Index entry)
• [p. 475]: Index entry for "Girlhood, 17-34." added (Index entry "Childhood. See Girlhood." originally pointed to non-existent entry)
• [p. 475]: Iyemitsŭ to Iyémitsŭ (Index entry)
• [p. 475]: Iyeyasŭ to Iyéyasŭ (Index entry)
• [p. 476]: fireproof to fire-proof (Index: Kura, a fire-proof storehouse)
• [p. 476]: Jo to Jō (Index: O Jō Sama, young lady)
• [p. 477]: Onouyé to Onoyé (Index entry)
• [p. 478]: folk-lore to folklore (Index: Tengu, a monster in Japanese folklore)