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... OLD - STYLE PLAY Frontispiece Facing p . PAGE 44 8 44 12 20 : > 24 24 46 26 46 28 44 60 46 64 : : 0800 70 20 74 78 82 88 " " 94 96 :: LADY PLAYING THE KOTO AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A YOSHIWARA GIRLS IN GARDEN 116 THE NEW SCHOOL OF DRAMA.
... OLD - STYLE PLAY Frontispiece Facing p . PAGE 44 8 44 12 20 : > 24 24 46 26 46 28 44 60 46 64 : : 0800 70 20 74 78 82 88 " " 94 96 :: LADY PLAYING THE KOTO AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A YOSHIWARA GIRLS IN GARDEN 116 THE NEW SCHOOL OF DRAMA.
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... YOSHIWARA WOMAN Facing p . 118 # 6 TREATY - PORT GIRLS • PONTA , A TOKIO GEISHA THE OFFICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND 120 44 122 124 COMMERCE * . 164 H.I.H. THE LATE PRINCE SANJO VISCOUNT YENOMOTO } 44 166 · BARON ITO BARON ...
... YOSHIWARA WOMAN Facing p . 118 # 6 TREATY - PORT GIRLS • PONTA , A TOKIO GEISHA THE OFFICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND 120 44 122 124 COMMERCE * . 164 H.I.H. THE LATE PRINCE SANJO VISCOUNT YENOMOTO } 44 166 · BARON ITO BARON ...
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A Comparative Study of the Progress, Policy, and Methods of the Japanese Since Their War with China Stafford Ransome. AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A YOSHIWARA WOMAN PONTA , A TOKIO GEISHA. Photographed by GENROKU - KWAN.
A Comparative Study of the Progress, Policy, and Methods of the Japanese Since Their War with China Stafford Ransome. AN ACTOR DRESSED AS A YOSHIWARA WOMAN PONTA , A TOKIO GEISHA. Photographed by GENROKU - KWAN.
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... Yoshiwara , of which a very great deal has been written , is at once a great and , to the student of character , an intensely interesting institution . It is immoral and cruel ; and briefly may be described as the ideal working out to ...
... Yoshiwara , of which a very great deal has been written , is at once a great and , to the student of character , an intensely interesting institution . It is immoral and cruel ; and briefly may be described as the ideal working out to ...
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... Yoshiwara . He has heard over and over again that Japanese ladies and gentlemen are in the habit of selling their children to this and kindred institutions , and that a girl who takes service in these places suffers no degradation in ...
... Yoshiwara . He has heard over and over again that Japanese ladies and gentlemen are in the habit of selling their children to this and kindred institutions , and that a girl who takes service in these places suffers no degradation in ...
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Page 64 - Japan, published in 1872, he directed that "henceforth Education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member.
Page xi - Ransome, Stafford. Japan in transition: a comparative study of the progress, policy and methods of the Japanese since their war with China, 277 pp., 1899.
Page 72 - Elementary schools are designed to give children the rudiments of moral education specially adapted to make of them good members of the community, together with such general knowledge and skill as are necessary for the practical duties of life, due attention being paid to their bodily development.
Page 75 - As regards the length of the courses of study, it should be mentioned here that the course of medicine extends over four years, while in the College of Law, no definite term of study is fixed, but three examination periods are specially prescribed for each course.
Page 74 - Engineering includes the nine courses of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Technology of Arms, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Applied Chemistry, Technology of Explosives, and Mining and Metallurgy, with 29 professorial chairs.