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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories, by Mrs. M. Chaplin Ayrton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories Author: Mrs. M. Chaplin Ayrton Editor: William Elliot Griffis Release Date: May 28, 2009 [EBook #28979] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD-LIFE IN JAPAN *** Produced by Meredith Bach, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been retained as in the original. Words italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. Words with bold emphasis in the original are surrounded by =equals signs=. [Illustration: The Lion of Korea.] CHILD-LIFE IN JAPAN AND JAPANESE CHILD STORIES BY MRS. M. CHAPLIN AYRTON EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, L.H.D. Author of "The Mikado's Empire" and "Japanese Fairy World" _WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING SEVEN FULL-PAGE PICTURES DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY JAPANESE ARTISTS_ BOSTON, U.S.A. D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1909 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY D. C. HEATH & CO. PREFACE. Over a quarter of a century ago, while engaged in introducing the American public school system into Japan, I became acquainted in Tokio with Mrs. Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, the author of "Child-Life in Japan." This highly accomplished lady was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and had obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Sciences, besides studying medicine in Paris. She had married Professor William Edward Ayrton, the electric engineer and inventor, then connected with the Imperial College of Engineering of Japan, and since president of the Institute of Electric Engineers in London. She took a keen interest in the Japanese people and never wearied of
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