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Japanese Girls and Women / Revised and Enlarged Edition

Chapter 64: Transcriber's Note:
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The author offers a systematic, observational portrait of female life in Japan, tracing experiences from childhood through education, marriage, motherhood, and old age and surveying court and samurai households, peasant and urban women's routines, domestic service, and household customs. Chapters combine descriptive ethnography, social and legal practices around marriage and divorce, and accounts of domestic organization, while an appended chapter assesses recent changes and reforms affecting women's roles. Material derives from prolonged personal acquaintance with Japanese women and includes historical notes and updates to situate traditional customs alongside evolving conditions.

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)