WOMEN UNDER POLYGAMY
Women have ruled the land as sovereigns. There are more great woman writers than men writers. The influence of Confucian theology was to exclude women from all affairs but those of the home; but industries and trades are now open to women.
"To-day," says this author, "we are convinced that the elevation of women is the elevation of the race. She is the epitome of the past and the reservoir of the future, so that the responsibilities of the new social life which is dawning on the realms of the Sun-Goddess may be safely entrusted to her care. … She now possesses all the rights of her Western sister, though she does not care to insist upon them; for almost all of our women still consider the home, and not society, as their proper sphere."
Okakura Kakuzo continues: "In the harmony of Eastern society the man consecrates himself to the state, the child to the parent, and the wife to the husband."[1]
In "Japan as I saw it," by A. H. Exner, we are informed that there is less seclusion of the working-class than the higher-class women. The working-man's wife toils hard, but she is the companion of her husband. Japanese liberal papers have said: "We will give our women the position due to them. By a
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