nd his would-be assassin that
the present Czar of Russia owes his escape from death at Otsu, near
Ky[=o]t[=o], in 1891.

EPILOGUE.

My task is ended. One half of Japan, with its virtues and its frailties,
its privileges and its wrongs, has been brought, so far as my pen can
bring it, within the knowledge of the American public. If, through this
work, one person setting forth for the Land of the Rising Sun goes
better prepared to comprehend the thoughts, the needs, and the virtues
of the noble, gentle, self-sacrificing women who make up one half the
population of the Island Empire, my labor will not have been in vain.

INDEX.

Adoption, 103, 112, 187.

Agility of Japanese, 13.

Ai, love, 415.

Amado, sliding wooden shutters used to inclose a Japanese house at
night, 23.

Amulets, 329.

Andon, a standing lamp inclosed in a paper case, 89.

Ane San, or Ne San, elder sister (_San_ the honorific), a title used by
the younger children in a family in speaking to their eldest sister, 20.

Aoyama, 131.

Apprentices, 309, 310.

Art in common things, 237-239, 462, 463.

Artisans, 235-239, 270.

Babies, 1-17;
bathing, 10;
conditions of life, 6, 7;
dress, 6, 15;
food, 10, 11;
imperial babies, 8, 9;
learning to talk, 16;
learning to walk, 13, 14;
of lower classes, 7;
of middle classes, 8;
of nobility, 8;
skin troubles, 11;
teething, 12;
tied to the back, 7, 8, 12.

Baby carriages, 424.

Baths, public, 10.

Beauty, Japanese standard of, 58; early loss of, 122.

Be be, a child's word for dress, 16.

Bed, the Empress's, 446.

Betrothal, 60.

Bett[=o], a groom or footman who cares for the horse in the stable and
runs ahead of it on the road, 62, 71, 311, 316, 319.

Bible, circulation of, in Japan, 412-414.

Birth, 1.

Boys, amusements of, 362-370.

Breakfast, 89.

Brothels. _See_ J[=o]roya.

Buddha's birthday, 365.

Buddhism, 168, 240;
affected by Christianity, 417-421;
introduction of, 143-145.

Buddhist funerals, 131, 132, 347.

Buddhist nuns, 155.

Buddhist priest, story of a, 418-421.

Building, 333-335.

Butsudan, the household shrine
used by Buddhists, 323.

Castles, 151, 157, 169, 171, 173, 174, 185, 186, 192.

Chadai, literally "tea money," the fee given at an inn, 251-253.

Cherry blossoms, 28, 146, 166, 176, 177, 191, 295, 296.

Childhood. _See_ Girlhood.

Children, intellectual characteristics of Japanese, 41;