Japanese Girls and Women

Japanese Girls and Women - Revised and Enlarged Edition

It seems necessary for a new author to give some excuse for her boldness in offering to the public another volume upon a subject already so well written up as Japan. In a field occupied by Griffis, Morse, Greey, Lowell, and Rein, what unexplored corner can a woman hope to enter? This is the question that will be asked, and that accordingly the author must answer. While Japan as a whole has been closely studied, and while much and varied information has been gathered about the country and its people, one half of the population has been left entirely unnoticed, passed over with brief mention, or altogether misunderstood. It is of this neglected half that I have written, in the hope that the whole fabric of Japanese social[viii] life will be better comprehended when the women of the country, and so the homes that they make, are better known and understood. The reason why Japanese home-life is so little understood by foreigners, even by those who have lived long in Japan, is that the Japanese, under an appearance of frankness and candor, hides an impenetrable reserve in regard to all those personal concerns which he believes are not in the remotest degree the concerns of his foreign guest. Only life in the home itself can show what a Japanese home may be; and only by intimate associationsuch as no foreign man can ever hope to gainwith the Japanese ladies themselves can much be learned of the thoughts and daily lives of the best Japanese women. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 32449
Author: Bacon, Alice Mabel
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English