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Volumes Issued
The Church a Community Force. By Worth M. Tippy
The Church at the Center. By Warren H. Wilson
The Making of a Country Parish. By Harlow S. Mills
Working Women of Japan. By Sidney L. Gulick
Social Evangelism. By Harry F. Ward
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ADDITIONAL VOLUMES TO BE ISSUED
WORKING WOMEN
OF JAPAN
BY
SIDNEY L. GULICK
Twenty-five years a missionary in Japan, Professor in
Doshisha University, Late Lecturer in the
Imperial University of Kyoto
Author of
Growth of the Kingdom of God; Evolution of the Japanese;
The White Peril in the Far East; The American
Japanese Problem; The Fight for Peace
1915
Missionary Education Movement of the
United States and Canada
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Dedicated
to
SHINJIRO OMOTO
in appreciation of more than a decade
of untiring service
for the
Working Women of Japan
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE
- Preface ix
- Social Classes in Japan, Old and New 1
- Farmers' Wives and Daughters 8
- Domestic Industries in Farming Families 24
- Silk Workers 32
- Wives and Daughters of Artizans and Merchants 36
- Komori (Baby-tenders) 42
- Household Domestics 48
- Hotel and Tea-house Girls 52
- Factory Girls and Women 61
- Geisha (Hetæræ) 87
- Shogi (Licensed Prostitutes) 104
- Ameliorative Efforts 118
- The Matsuyama Working Girls' Home ...