Wallace, 22

Ward, 22

"Way," _see_ Muro Kyuso, 250;
reference to, 287

Wealth increasing, 277

Wedding, Prince Imperial, 268;
Imperial silver wedding, 268

Woman: obedience, 55, 56;
estimates of East and West
contrasted, 102-103; Western
estimates, recent growth,
111, 113 (note); Buddhist and
Confucian teaching, 112, 259;
jealousy, 127; her position,
258; influenced by Hindu
philosophy, 258; improvement, 268

Writing, a fine art, 173

Xavier, Francis, 308

Yamaguchi, Mr., quotation, 149;
the Imperial throne, 373

"Yamato Damashii," _see_ "The Soul of Japan."

"Yumei-mujitsu," _see_ "Nominality."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: "Things Japanese," p. 156.]

[Footnote B: Let not the reader gather from the very brief glance at
the attainments of New Japan, that she has overtaken the nations of
Christendom in all important respects; for such is far from the case.
He needs to be on his guard not to overestimate what has been
accomplished.]

[Footnote C: Prof. B.H. Chamberlain.]

[Footnote D: Only since the coming of the new period has it become
possible for a woman to gain a divorce from her husband.]

[Footnote E: Chapter xxix. Some may care to read this chapter at this
point.]

[Footnote F: _Cf._ chapter ii.]

[Footnote G: "Kokoro," by L. Hearn, p. 31.]

[Footnote H: _Japan Mail_, September 30, 1899.]

[Footnote I: Part II. p. xxxii.]

[Footnote J: _Japan Mail_, June 4, 1898, p. 586.]

[Footnote K: If all that has been said above as to the relative lack
of affection between husband and wife is true, it will help to make
more credible, because more intelligible, the preceding chapter as to
the relative lack of love for children. Where the relation between
husband and wife is what we have depicted it, where the children are
systematically taught to feel for their father respect rather than
love, the relation between the father and the children, or the mother
and the children, cannot be the same as in lands where all these
customs are reversed.]

[Footnote L: The effect of Christian missions cannot be measured by
the numbers of those who are to be counted on the church rolls; almost
unconsciously the nation is absorbing Christian ideals from the
hundreds of Christian missionaries and tens of thousands of Christian
natives. The necessities of the new social order make their teachings
intelligible and acceptable as the older social order did not and
could n