Sin, terminology,
313
; consciousness
of,317; instance of conversion,318
Shusi,
228
Social evil, the,
261
(note)
Social segregation and social divergence,
21
Social and racial unity distinguished,
443
Social evolution convergent,
14; principle revealed,15;
personal process,446
Social heredity, transmitting results of toil,
71
Social intercourse of Occident and Orient,
436
Social order from the West,
413; the parting of the ways,414
Sociological theory of: character,
14,446; pride,30; fear
of ridicule,73; cruelty,135;
kindness,136; stolidity,163;
power of generalization,222;
philosophical development,
231; apparent deficiency in
imagination,236; differences
characterizing Eastern and
Western psychic nature,247,
435; untruthfulness,256; concubinage,
260; religious characteristics,
309,321; the suppression
of Phallicism,327;
religious tolerance,329; divorce
and "falling in love,"
355; courtesy,363,364; the
personal pronoun,372; the
failure of Buddhism,385;
the conception of Fate,387
Sociology and individual religion,
405
;
and Shintoism,407
Southerland,
23
"Soul of Japan," the,
144
"Soul of the Far East," quotation,
234
Spencer,
22
Stolidity: easily distinguished
from stoicism,164,165; the
peasants,165; social, not
racial,167; cultivated,168
Students: testimony of foreign
teachers,218; at home and abroad,219
Suicide, a matter of honor,
154
-156
Sutra, translation of,
402
Suspiciousness and military feudalism,
125
-126
Taguchi, Dr., brain statistics,
190
Tai-ku Reform, epoch-making period,
201
Takahashi, Mr. G.,
229
; the
monks and consciousness of sin,317
Taste and lack of taste in woman's dress,
182
Temples, statistics,
296
Tokugawa Shogunate,
38
-40;
how overthrown,40-43; prohibitive
of progress,204; last
of "Curtain governments,"214
Torture, in Japan,
132
; in Europe,
133
Toys and toy-stores,
96
Trade estimates,
256
; Old Japan,
the Greeks, the Jews
compared,257, note; trade
and the feudal order,284
Transmigration,
319
; theory
illogical, but helpful,389
Truthfulness, undeveloped,
255
Tyranny and Western wives
106
Unæsthetic phenomena,
179
Verbeck, Dr. G.F.,
91
Visionary tendency,
236
,
237
Vivacity, Geisha girl,
168
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:
[A]
"Things Japanese," p. 156.
"Things Japanese," p. 156.
[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.
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.
[C]
Prof. B.H. Chamberlain.
Prof. B.H. Chamberlain.
[D]
Only since the coming of the new period has it become possible for a woman to gain a divorce from her husband.
Only since the coming of the new period has it become possible for a woman to gain a divorce from her husband.
[E]
Chapter xxix. Some may care to read this chapter at this point.
Chapter xxix. Some may care to read this chapter at this point.
[F]
Cf.chapter ii.
Cf.chapter ii.
[G]
"Kokoro," by L. Hearn, p. 31.
"Kokoro," by L. Hearn, p. 31.
[H]
Japan Mail, September 30, 1899.
Japan Mail, September 30, 1899.
[I]
Part II. p. xxxii.
Part II. p. xxxii.
[J]
Japan Mail, June 4, 1898, p. 586.
Japan Mail, June 4, 1898, p. 586.
[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.
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.
[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 not. This accounts for the astonishing change in the anti-Christian spirit of the Japanese. This spirit did not cease at once on the introduction of the new social order, nor indeed is it now entirely gone. But the change from the Japan of thirty years ago to the Japan of to-day, in its attitude toward Christianity, is more marked than that of any great nation in history. A similar change in the Roman Empire took place, but it required three hundred years. This change in Japan may accordingly be called truly miraculous, not in the sense, however, of a result without a cause, for the causes are well understood.Among the Christians, especially, the old order is rapidly giving way to the new. Christianity has brought a new conception of woman and her place in the home and her relation to her husband. Japanese Christian girls, and recently non-Christian girls, are seeking an education which shall fit them for their enlarging life. Many of the more Christian young men do not want heathen wives, with their low estimate of themselves and their duties, and they are increasingly unwilling to marry those of whom they know nothing and for whom they care not at all. Already the idea that love is the only safe foundation for the home is beginning to take root in Japan. This changing ideal is bringing marked social changes. In some churches an introduction committee is appointed whose special function is to introduce marriageable persons and to hold social meetings where the young people may become acquainted. Here an important evolution in the social order is taking place before our eyes, but not a few of the world's wise men are too exalted to see it. Love and demonstrative affection between husband andwife will doubtless become as characteristic of Japan in thefuture as their absence has been characteristic in the past. To recapitulate: these distinctive characteristics of the emotional life of the Japanese might at first seem to be so deep-rooted as to be inherent, yet they are really due to the ideas and customs of the social order, and are liable to change with any new system of ideas and customs that may arise. The higher development of the emotional life of the Japanese waits now on the reorganization of the family life; this rests on a new idea as to the place and value of woman as such and as a human being; this in turn rests on the wide acceptance of Christian ideals as to God and their mutual relations. It involves, likewise, new ideals as to man's final destiny. In Japan's need of these Christian ideals we find one main ground and justification, if justification be needed, for missionary enterprise among this Eastern people.
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 not. This accounts for the astonishing change in the anti-Christian spirit of the Japanese. This spirit did not cease at once on the introduction of the new social order, nor indeed is it now entirely gone. But the change from the Japan of thirty years ago to the Japan of to-day, in its attitude toward Christianity, is more marked than that of any great nation in history. A similar change in the Roman Empire took place, but it required three hundred years. This change in Japan may accordingly be called truly miraculous, not in the sense, however, of a result without a cause, for the causes are well understood.
Among the Christians, especially, the old order is rapidly giving way to the new. Christianity has brought a new conception of woman and her place in the home and her relation to her husband. Japanese Christian girls, and recently non-Christian girls, are seeking an education which shall fit them for their enlarging life. Many of the more Christian young men do not want heathen wives, with their low estimate of themselves and their duties, and they are increasingly unwilling to marry those of whom they know nothing and for whom they care not at all. Already the idea that love is the only safe foundation for the home is beginning to take root in Japan. This changing ideal is bringing marked social changes. In some churches an introduction committee is appointed whose special function is to introduce marriageable persons and to hold social meetings where the young people may become acquainted. Here an important evolution in the social order is taking place before our eyes, but not a few of the world's wise men are too exalted to see it. Love and demonstrative affection between husband andwife will doubtless become as characteristic of Japan in thefuture as their absence has been characteristic in the past. To recapitulate: these distinctive characteristics of the emotional life of the Japanese might at first seem to be so deep-rooted as to be inherent, yet they are really due to the ideas and customs of the social order, and are liable to change with any new system of ideas and customs that may arise. The higher development of the emotional life of the Japanese waits now on the reorganization of the family life; this rests on a new idea as to the place and value of woman as such and as a human being; this in turn rests on the wide acceptance of Christian ideals as to God and their mutual relations. It involves, likewise, new ideals as to man's final destiny. In Japan's need of these Christian ideals we find one main ground and justification, if justification be needed, for missionary enterprise among this Eastern people.
[M]
Chapter v. p. 82.
Chapter v. p. 82.
[N]
P. 133
P. 133
[O]
"Résumé Statistique l'Empire du Japan," published by the Imperial Cabinet, 1897.
"Résumé Statistique l'Empire du Japan," published by the Imperial Cabinet, 1897.
[P]
As illustrating the point under discussion see portions of addresses reported in "The World's Parliament of Religions," vol. ii. pp. 1014, 1283.
As illustrating the point under discussion see portions of addresses reported in "The World's Parliament of Religions," vol. ii. pp. 1014, 1283.
[Q]
Japan Mail, December 10, 1898.
Japan Mail, December 10, 1898.
[R]
I have found it difficult to secure exact information on the subject of the Imperial concubines (who, by the way, have a special name of honor), partly for the reason that this is not a matter of general information, and partly because of the unwillingness to impart information to a foreigner which is felt to tarnish the luster of the Imperial glory. A librarian of a public library refused to lend a book containing the desired facts, saying that foreigners might be freely informed of that which reveals the good, the true, and the beautiful of Japanese history, customs, and character, but nothing else. By the educated and more earnest members of the nation much sensitiveness is felt, especially in the presence of the Occidental, on the subject of the Imperial concubinage. It is felt to be a blot on Japan's fair name, a relic of her less civilized days, and is, accordingly, kept in the background as much as possible. The statements given in the text in regard to the number of the concubines and children are correct so far as they go. A full statement might require an increase in the figures given.
I have found it difficult to secure exact information on the subject of the Imperial concubines (who, by the way, have a special name of honor), partly for the reason that this is not a matter of general information, and partly because of the unwillingness to impart information to a foreigner which is felt to tarnish the luster of the Imperial glory. A librarian of a public library refused to lend a book containing the desired facts, saying that foreigners might be freely informed of that which reveals the good, the true, and the beautiful of Japanese history, customs, and character, but nothing else. By the educated and more earnest members of the nation much sensitiveness is felt, especially in the presence of the Occidental, on the subject of the Imperial concubinage. It is felt to be a blot on Japan's fair name, a relic of her less civilized days, and is, accordingly, kept in the background as much as possible. The statements given in the text in regard to the number of the concubines and children are correct so far as they go. A full statement might require an increase in the figures given.