A daughter of the Samurai.

R104413, 29Dec52, Marion Strobel (A) SUGIMOTO, ETSU (INAGAKI) A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

KIYOOKA, CHIYONO S. A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

R104413, 29Dec52, Marion Strobel (A) SUGIMOTO, ETSU (INAGAKI) A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

KIYOOKA, CHIYONO S. A daughter of the Samurai.

A daughter of the Samurai.

This is well illustrated by the position of woman; for in no class did she experience less freedom than among the samurai.

I have diverged at some length because the polite debasement of one's consort was a usage most in vogue among the samurai.

The innumerable avenues of popular amusement and instructionthe theatres, the story-teller's booths, the preacher's dais, the musical recitations, the novelshave taken for their chief theme the stories of the samurai.

The character which Bushido stamped on our nation and on the samurai in particular, cannot be said to form "an irreducible element of species," but nevertheless as to the vitality which it retains there is no doubt.

The words which a great thinker used in speaking of Theresa and Antigone may aptly be repeated of the samurai, that "the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone.

Scratch a Japanese of the most advanced ideas, and he will show a samurai.

The majority of the ruling class, the Samurai, were in favor of the exclusion policy.

Councils of Kuges and Daimios and meetings of Samurai sprung forth spontaneously.

Whatever may be said about the soundness of the above speculation, it is certain that in the great councils of Kuges and Daimios and in the discussions of the Samurai, which the advent of the foreigners called into being, lay the germ of the future constitutional parliament of Japan.

The constant disturbance of the country, the difficulty of foreign intercourse, the sense of necessity of a single and undoubted authority over the land, and the outcry of the Samurai thus raised against the Shogun, finally led to his resignation on November 19, 1867.

The great colleges and schools, both public and private, which were hitherto established and carried on exclusively for the benefit of the nobles and the Samurai, were now open to all.

He also struck a heavy blow at the arrogance and extreme love of military glory of the Samurai class, with whom to die for the cause of his sovereign, whatever that cause might be, was the highest act of patriotism, by advocating that "Death is a democrat, and that the Samurai who died fighting for his country, and the servant who was slain while caught stealing from his master, were alike dead and useless.

He also struck a heavy blow at the arrogance and extreme love of military glory of the Samurai class, with whom to die for the cause of his sovereign, whatever that cause might be, was the highest act of patriotism, by advocating that "Death is a democrat, and that the Samurai who died fighting for his country, and the servant who was slain while caught stealing from his master, were alike dead and useless.