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th to the backs of older brothers or sisters, and living in the streets in all weathers. When it is cold, the sister's haori, or coat, serves as an extra covering for the baby as well; and when the sun is hot, the sister's parasol keeps off its rays from the bobbing bald head.[*8] Living in public, as the Japanese babies do, they soon acquire an intelligent, interested look, and seem to enjoy the games of the elder children, upon whose backs they are carried, as much as the players themselves. Babies of the middle classes do not live in public in this way, but ride about upon the backs of their nurses until they are old enough to toddle by themselves, and they are not so often seen in the streets; as few but the poorest Japanese, even in the large cities, are unable to have a pleasant bit of garden in which the children can play and take the air. The children of the richest families, the nobility, and the imperial family, are never carried about in this way. The young child is borne in the arms of an
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the feast of dolls, 427.
Shogi, Japanese chess, 136.
Shōgun, or Tycoon, the Viceroy or so-called temporal ruler of Japan under the feudal system, 155, 169, 171, 173, 176, 185, 186, 191, 194, 197, 208, 224, 231-234, 292;
daughter of, 176, 194.
Shōgunate, 155, 190, 192, 221, 222.
Shoji, sliding windows covered with white paper, 23, 71.
Shopping, 264-268.
Sho-séi, a student, 308.
Silk mosaic, 95, 192.
Silkworms, 95, 246.
Soba, a kind of macaroni made of buckwheat, 336.
Soroban, an abacus, 266-268.
Sumida River, 173, 295.
Tabi, a mitten-like sock, 13.
Ta ta, a baby's word for sock or tabi, 16.
Taiko Sama. See Toyotomi.
Tea, 91, 92;
ceremonial, 44, 136, 176, 432.
Tea-gardens, 247.
Tea-houses, 250-255.
Teachers, pay of, 204;
women as, 398.
Teaching. See Instruction.
Teeth, blackened after marriage, 63.
Temple, 4, 120, 129, 240.
Tengu, a monster in Japanese folklore, 466, 468.
Theatre, 33, 99, 292-294.
Titles used in families, 20.
Toes, prehensile, 15.
Toilet apparatus, 30.
Tōkaidō, 241.
Tokonoma, the raised alcove in a Japanese room, 44.
Tokugawa, 29, 151, 155, 231.
Tōkyō, 49, 69-71, 108, 115.
Tōkyō Mail, 231.
Tombs, 98.
Toyotomi Hidéyoshi, 232.
Training-schools for nurses, 158, 398.
Trousseau, 61, 436.
Tsuda, Miss Umé, viii, 458.
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.
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