Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, a medical graduate living in Tokyo with her engineer husband, describes the year as Japanese children lived it in the 1870s: New Year customs, the chrysanthemum show, street stalls, toys and fires. Edited by William Elliot Griffis, the book adds a set of Japanese stories for children such as “The Filial Girl”.
A charming early Western account of Japanese childhood, enjoyable for families and historians of Meiji Japan. Download the free EPUB.