The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers' Track in the Land of the Rising SunMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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Página 104 - ... vulgar. When she speaks, it is to set herself above others, to upbraid others, to envy others, to be puffed up with individual pride, to jeer at others, to outdo others, — all things at variance with the ' way ' in which a woman should walk. The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy, and quietness.
Página 104 - ... instructions. Should her parents, through excess of tenderness, allow her to grow up self-willed, she will infallibly show herself capricious in her husband's house, and thus alienate his affection, while, if her father-in-law be a man of correct principles, the girl will find the yoke of these principles intolerable. She will hate and decry her father-in-law, and the end of these domestic dissensions will be her dismissal from her husband's house, and the covering of herself with ignominy. Her...
Página 110 - Let her never even dream of jealousy. If her husband be dissolute, she must expostulate with him, but never either nurse or vent her anger. If her jealousy be extreme, it will render her countenance frightful and her accents repulsive, and can only result in completely alienating her husband from her, and making her intolerable in his eyes.
Página 110 - If her jealousy be extreme, it will render her countenance frightful and her accents repulsive, and can only result in completely alienating her husband from her, and making her intolerable in his eyes. Should her husband act ill and unreasonably, she must compose her countenance and soften her voice to remonstrate with him ; and if he be angry and listen not to the i emonstrance, she must wait over a season, and then expostulate with him again when his heart is softened.
Página 104 - The customs of antiquity did not allow men and women to sit in the same apartment, to keep their wearing apparel in the same place, to bathe in the same place, or to transmit to each other anything directly from hand to hand.
Página 41 - ... accuracy. If on the right hand there was a cupid looking to the left, then on the left hand there must be a cupid of exactly the same size looking to the right, and the chief feature of the design was invariably in the exact centre. The Japanese artisan-artists have shown us that this mechanical symmetry does not make for beauty. They have taught us the charm of irregularity ; and if the world owe them but this one lesson, Japan may yet be proud of what she has accomplished.
Página 108 - A woman, once married, and then divorced, has wandered from the ' way," and is covered with the greatest shame, even if she should enter into a second union with a man of wealth and position. " It is the chief duty of a girl living in the parental house to practise filial piety towards her father and mother. But after marriage, her...
Página 128 - When a newspaper has printed matter which is considered prejudicial to public order or subversive of public morality, the Minister of State for the Interior is empowered to suspend its publication either totally or temporarily.
Página 81 - A word as to the parts of speech in Japanese. Strictly speaking, there are but two, the verb and the noun. The particles, or "postpositions...