number employed, 310, 311;
position of, 302-310;
wages, 311.

Sewing, 23, 94.

Shir[=o]zake, a sweet white sake used at the feast of dolls, 427.

Shogi, Japanese chess, 136.

Sh[=o]gun, or Tycoon, the Viceroy or so-called temporal ruler of Japan
under the feudal system, 155, 169, 171, 173, 176, 185, 186, 191, 194,
197, 208, 224, 231-234, 292;
daughter of, 176, 194.

Sh[=o]gunate, 155, 190, 192, 221, 222.

Shoji, sliding windows covered with white paper, 23, 71.

Shopping, 264-268.

Sho-sei, a student, 308.

Silk mosaic, 95, 192.

Silkworms, 95, 246.

Soba, a kind of macaroni made of buckwheat, 336.

Soroban, an abacus, 266-268.

Sumida River, 173, 295.

Tabi, a mitten-like sock, 13.

Ta ta, a baby's word for sock or tabi, 16.

Taiko Sama. _See_ Toyotomi.

Tea, 91, 92;
ceremonial, 44, 136, 176, 432.

Tea-gardens, 247.

Tea-houses, 250-255.

Teachers, pay of, 204;
women as, 398.

Teaching. _See_ Instruction.

Teeth, blackened after marriage, 63.

Temple, 4, 120, 129, 240.

Tengu, a monster in Japanese folklore, 466, 468.

Theatre, 33, 99, 292-294.

Titles used in families, 20.

Toes, prehensile, 15.

Toilet apparatus, 30.

T[=o]kaid[=o], 241.

Tokonoma, the raised alcove in a Japanese room, 44.

Tokugawa, 29, 151, 155, 231.

T[=o]ky[=o], 49, 69-71, 108, 115.

T[=o]ky[=o] Mail, 231.

Tombs, 98.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 232.

Training-schools for nurses, 158, 398.

Trousseau, 61, 436.

Tsuda, Miss Ume, viii, 458.

Utsunomiya, 70, 71.

Uyeno Park, 296.

Virtue, Japanese and Western ideas of, 215-219.

Visits, after marriage, 63;
in honor of a birth, 1, 2;
New Year's, 25;
to a house of mourning, 340;
to parents, 98;
to tombs, 98, 359.

Voice in singing, 430-432.

Wakamatsu, 208, 222, 457.

Wedding. _See_ Marriage.

Widows, childless, 123.

Wife, childless, 102;
duties of, 85-99;
in great houses, 92;
relation to husband, 84;
relation to parents-in-law, 84;
social relations, 91.

Woman question, new feeling about, 371-373.

Women, general reading of, 386;
in the city, 279-298;
new openings for, 397-402;
occupations of, 85-103, 108-110, 242-256, 279-292, 306, 307, 310-318,
397-402;
position of, 17-22, 35, 36, 57, 65-68, 76-88, 90, 91, 93, 99-118,
120-124, 132, 133, 139, 143, 145, 146, 148, 168, 189, 190, 208,
216-219, 223-227, 242-247, 260, 261, 279, 292, 298, 306, 318, 371-378,
438-440;
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