GIRLS ANDJAPANESE WOMEN BY ALICE MABEL BACON BOSTON AND NEW YORK MIFFLIN AND COMPANYHOUGHTON, 2ri)e RifaersiDc Canibrtbgtpresf^ef, i89i 1891,Copyright, By ALICE MABEL BACON. Ail reserved.rights 'DIIRD EDITION. The Riverside Press, V. S. A.Cambridge, Mass., and Printed H. O.Electrotyped by & Oo,Houghton To THESTEMATZ, COUNTESS OYAJVIA, IH THE NAME OP OIJB QIELHOOD's UNCHANGED ANDFEIENDSHIP, tmSHAKEN BY THE CHANGES AKD SEPAEATIONS OP ODE MATUBEB TEAB8, Eitis Folume ZS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. ^ urn. ttS B33 PREFACE. It seems for a new author tonecessary excuse for her bokhiess in offer-somegive another vohime ato the uponing public so well written assubject ah'cady up Japan, In a field occupied Griffis, Morse, Greey,by and what cornerLowell, Rein, unexplored woman to This is thecan a enter?hope that will be and that ac-question asked, the author must answer.cordingly While as a whole has beenJapan closely and while much and varied infor-studied, mation has been about the coun-gathered and its one half of the try people, popu- lation has been left unnoticed,entirely over with brief or alto-passed mention, misunderstood. It is of thisgether neg- lected half that I have in thewritten, hope that the whole fabric of socialJapanese PREFACE.vi be better when thelife will comprehended of the and so the homeswomen country, are better known andthat make,they understood.
GIRLS ANDJAPANESE WOMEN BY ALICE MABEL BACON BOSTON AND NEW YORK MIFFLIN AND COMPANYHOUGHTON, 2ri)e RifaersiDc Canibrtbgtpresf^ef, i89i1891,Copyright, By ALICE MABEL BACON. Ail reserved.rights 'DIIRD EDITION. The Riverside Press, V. S. A.Cambridge, Mass., and Printed H. O.Electrotyped by & Oo,HoughtonTo THESTEMATZ, COUNTESS OYAJVIA, IH THE NAME OP OIJB QIELHOOD's UNCHANGED ANDFEIENDSHIP, tmSHAKEN BY THE CHANGES AKD SEPAEATIONS OP ODE MATUBEB TEAB8, Eitis Folume ZS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. ^