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Family Life in Japan

Tourist Library 17

Family Life in Japan
by Shunkichi Akimoto

Tourist Library 17
Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1937

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TOURIST LIBRARY

Volumes already published

1. TEA CULT OF JAPAN By Y. Fukukita, A. B.

2. JAPANESE NOH PLAYS By Prof. T. Nogami

3. SAKURA (Japanese Cherry) By M. Miyoshi, D. Sc.

4. JAPANESE GARDENS By Prof. M. Tatsui

5. HIROSHIGE AND JAPANESE LANDSCAPES By Prof. Yone Noguchi

6. JAPANESE DRAMA By B. T. I.

7. JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE By Prof. H. Kishida, D. Sc.

8. WHAT IS SHINTO? By Prof. G. Katō, D. Litt.

9. CASTLES IN JAPAN By Prof. S. Ōrui, D. Litt. and Prof. M. Toba

10. HOT SPRINGS IN JAPAN By Prof. K. Fujinami, M. D.

11. FLORAL ART OF JAPAN By Issōtei Nishikawa

12. CHILDREN’S DAYS IN JAPAN By T. Iwadō, M. A.

13. KIMONO (Japanese Dress) By Kenichi Kawakatsu

14. JAPANESE FOOD By Prof. Kaneko Tezuka

15. JAPANESE MUSIC By Katsumi Sunaga

16. JUDO (JUJUTSU) By Prof. Jigorō Kanō

17. FAMILY LIFE IN JAPAN By Shunkichi Akimoto

Volumes in preparation

SCENERY OF JAPAN By T. Tamura, D. Sc.

JAPANESE EDUCATION By Prof. K. Yoshida, D. Litt. and Prof. T. Kaigo

FOLK-TOYS IN JAPAN By Tekiho Nishizawa

FLORAL CALENDAR IN JAPAN By T. Makino, D. Sc. and Genjirō Oka

UKIYOE (Japanese Genre Picture) By Prof. S. Fujikake D. Litt.

HOW TO STUDY BUDDHIST STATUE By Prof. G. Ono, D. Litt.

JAPANESE HISTORY By Prof. T. Nakamura, D. Litt.

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Color photograph of three children and a woman in a room with a mat floor. At the back a child in a green robe with large orange and yellow flowers stands with both hands at the cheeks. Below at the left a child in a yellow robe with a large bow at the back kneels and bends over a low dark table. At the center of the table a small child with short dark hair, in dark clothes, holds a thin object over a white sheet. At the right a woman in a gray-blue robe with an orange sash kneels at the table and looks down. On the wall at the left hangs a picture with a seated figure, and a small figure in a framed case stands on a shelf at the right.
CHILDREN GREET NEW YEAR

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FAMILY LIFE IN JAPAN

BY
SHUNKICHI AKIMOTO

BOARD OF TOURIST INDUSTRY
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

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COPYRIGHT 1937

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It is a common desire among tourists to learn something of the culture of the countries they visit, as well as to see their beautiful scenery. To see is naturally easier than to learn, but flying visits merely for sightseeing furnish neither the time nor opportunity for more than a passing acquaintance with the culture of any foreign people. This is specially true of Japan and her people.

The Board of Tourist Industry recognizes both the obligation and the difficulty of providing foreign tourists with accurate information regarding the various phases of Japan’s culture. It is, therefore, endeavouring to meet this obligation, as far as possible, by publishing this series of brochures.

The present series will, when completed, consist of more than a hundred volumes, each dealing with a different subject, but all co-ordinated. By studying the entire series, the foreign student of Japan will gain an adequate knowledge of the unique culture that has evolved in this country through the ages.

Board of Tourist Industry,
Japanese Government Railways.

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The Board of Tourist Industry acknowledges with sincere gratitude its indebtedness to the Shufunotomo and the Tokyo Nichinichi which so generously helped to provide the photographs shown in this brochure. (The cover photograph: Y. Watanabe)

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CONTENTS

Page

Introductory ......................... 9

The Wife ......................... 12

The Husband ......................... 20

Children ......................... 26

The Mother-in-law ......................... 38

The Japanese Homestead ......................... 45

Moral Background of Japanese Home ......................... 55

Sunday Morning in Japanese Home ......................... 61

Making Presents ......................... 78

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Photograph of the front of a small dark wooden building with a sloping tiled roof, seen from the paved ground before it. Two tall bundles of leafy branches, each standing in a pale wrapped base, are set before the entrance beside upright poles. A rope hung with folded paper strips hangs at the upper right beside the doorway. A flag with a large round dark disc flies from a tall pole at the left, with trees behind. A small oval plate is fixed to the wall at the right, and a fence of upright slats runs at the right edge.
New Year’s decorations before the entrance of a Japanese house