Japan From the Old to the New
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104 CHAPTER V The Status of Women IN the last chapter some of the natural beauties of the country were touched on. Could one have a more suitable sequence in this one than that of the fair sex ? It would seem evident that, to justly estimate the present condition of women in Japan and their outlook, we must understand something about their position in the past. In old Japan, and prior to the arrival of Buddhism and Confucianism, men and women held almost an equal position, and history teUs us t...hat women exercised a great power in the political world in the ancient days, and that no less than nine of them had ascended the throne ; some of them had shown bravery and prowess in the field of battle, others had shone in the realm of literature or of art. This was a spring-time for the women of Japan, and they exercised their influence in a beneficial way ; but those conditions were greatly modified, though not, as many Western writers assert, completely changed, by the intro- duction of the Buddhist creed into Japan.
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104 CHAPTER V The Status of Women IN the last chapter some of the natural beauties of the country were touched on. Could one have a more suitable sequence in this one than that of the fair sex ? It would seem evident that, to justly estimate the present condition of women in Japan and their outlook, we must understand something about their position in the past. In old Japan, and prior to the arrival of Buddhism and Confucianism, men and women held almost an equal position, and history teUs us t...hat women exercised a great power in the political world in the ancient days, and that no less than nine of them had ascended the throne ; some of them had shown bravery and prowess in the field of battle, others had shone in the realm of literature or of art. This was a spring-time for the women of Japan, and they exercised their influence in a beneficial way ; but those conditions were greatly modified, though not, as many Western writers assert, completely changed, by the intro- duction of the Buddhist creed into Japan.
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