Identifier: childlifeinjapan01ayrt (find matches)
Title: Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed
Subjects: Children Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is shoes with-out socks, but you see the other boy has socks on.His socks are made of dark blue calico, with athickly woven sole, and a place, like one finger ofa glove, for his big toe. If you were to wear Japa-nese shoes, you would think the thong betweenyour toes very uncomfortable. Yet from theirhabit of wearing this sort of shoe, the big toegrows more separate from the other toes, and theskin between this and the next toe becomes ashard as the skin of a dogs or a cats paw. The boys are not cold, for their cotton clothes,being wadded, are warm and snug. One boy hasa rounded pouch fastened to his sash. It is redand prettily embroidered with flowers or birds,and is his purse, in which he keeps some littletoys and some money. The other boy very likelyhas not a pouch, but he has two famous bigpockets. Like all Japanese, he uses the part ofhis large sleeve which hangs down as his pocket.Thus when a group of little children are disturbedat play you see each little hand seize a treasured
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A Game of Snowball. 4 Child-Life in Japan. toy and disappear into its sleeve, like mice runninginto their holes with bits of cheese. In the next large picture are two boys who arefond of music. One has a flute, w^hich is madeof bamboo wood. These flutes are easy to make,as bamboo wood grows hollow, with cross divi-sions at intervals. If you cut a piece with adivision forming one end you need only make theoutside holes in order to finish your flute. The child sitting downhas a drum. His drumand the paper lanternshanging up have painted onthem an ornament whichis also the crest of thehouse of Arima. Ifthese boys belong to thisfamily they wear the samecrest embroidered on the centre of the backs oftheir coats. Korean Lion is the title of the picture whichforms the frontispiece; it represents a gamethat children in Japan are very fund of play-ing. They are probably trying to act as wellas the maskers did whom they saw on New

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