A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist

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Marie Carmichael Stopes. A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist

A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF PLATES

INTRODUCTION

A JOURNAL FROM JAPAN

CONCLUSION

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

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Marie Carmichael Stopes

Published by Good Press, 2019

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My futons (soft, thick quilt-like mats) are beauties—silk and velvet—and I feel ashamed to lie on them. The mosquito curtains are nearly as big as the room, and make a high, four-square tent when erected, but everything is put away in the day, and no sign of sleeping remains; hence everything gets aired and there is no possibility of dust collecting under beds. In many of the household arrangements we are far behind the Japanese. They have reduced simplicity to a fine art. The bath, where one sits upright instead of lying down, is most comfortable; but of course mine was too hot after a short time in it, as the fire is inside it, and I had to rush out and get help—in Japanese!

At night the stillness was absolute, but the strangeness of the day kept sleep away.

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