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Volumes Issued
The Church a Community Force. By Worth M. Tippy
The Church at the Center. By Warren H. Wilson
The Making of a Country Parish. By Harlow S. Mills
Working Women of Japan. By Sidney L. Gulick
Social Evangelism. By Harry F. Ward
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A FARMER'S HOME
WORKING WOMEN OF JAPAN
BY SIDNEY L. GULICK
Twenty-five years a missionary in Japan, Professor in Doshisha University, Late Lecturer in the Imperial University of Kyoto
Author of Growth of the Kingdom of God; Evolution of the Japanese; The White Peril in the Far East; The American Japanese Problem; The Fight for Peace
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
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
A Farmer's Home Frontispiece
Separating the Wheat Heads from the Straw 16
At the Loom 16
A Family at Work in a Rice-Field 28
Transplanting Young Rice Plants 28
Spinning Cotton Thread for Weaving 32
At Work in a Kitchen 32
Carrying Fagots 44
Baby-Tenders 44
At Work in a Silk Factory 82
O Hamayu (Geisha) 92
Matsuyama Working Girls' Home 156
Girls in the Matsuyama Home 156