1915
Missionary Education Movement of the
United States and Canada
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Dedicated
to
SHINJIRO OMOTO
in appreciation of more than a decade
of untiring service
for the
Working Women of Japan
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
- Preface [ix]
- Social Classes in Japan, Old and New [1]
- Farmers' Wives and Daughters [8]
- Domestic Industries in Farming Families [24]
- Silk Workers [32]
- Wives and Daughters of Artizans and Merchants [36]
- Komori (Baby-tenders) [42]
- Household Domestics [48]
- Hotel and Tea-house Girls [52]
- Factory Girls and Women [61]
- Geisha (Hetæræ) [87]
- Shogi (Licensed Prostitutes) [104]
- Ameliorative Efforts [118]
- The Matsuyama Working Girls' Home [137]