people may become acquainted.  Here an important evolution in the social order is taking place before our eyes, but not a few of the world’s wise men are too exalted to see it.  Love and demonstrative affection between husband and wife will doubtless become as characteristic of Japan in the future as their absence has been characteristic in the past.  To recapitulate:  these distinctive characteristics of the emotional life of the Japanese might at first seem to be so deep-rooted as to be inherent, yet they are really due to the ideas and customs of the social order, and are liable to change with any new system of ideas and customs that may arise.  The higher development of the emotional life of the Japanese waits now on the reorganization of the family life; this rests on a new idea as to the place and value of woman as such and as a human being; this in turn rests on the wide acceptance of Christian ideals as to God and their mutual relations.  It involves, likewise, new ideals as to man’s final destiny.  In Japan’s need of these Christian ideals we find one main ground and justification, if justification be needed, for missionary enterprise among this Eastern people.]

[Footnote M:  Chapter v. p. 82.]

[Footnote N:  P. 133]

[Footnote O:  “Resume Statistique l’Empire du Japan,” published by the Imperial Cabinet, 1897.]

[Footnote P:  As illustrating the point under discussion see portions of addresses reported in “The World’s Parliament of Religions,” vol. ii. pp. 1014, 1283.]

[Footnote Q:  Japan Mail, December 10, 1898.]

[Footnote R:  I have found it difficult to secure exact information on the subject of the Imperial concubines (who, by the way, have a special name of honor), partly for the reason that this is not a matter of general information, and partly because of the unwillingness to impart information to a foreigner which is felt to tarnish the luster of the Imperial glory.  A librarian of a public library refused to lend a book containing the desired facts, saying that foreigners might be freely informed of that which reveals the good, the true, and the beautiful of Japanese history, customs, and character, but nothing else.  By the educated and more earnest members of the nation much sensitiveness is felt, especially in the presence of the Occidental, on the subject of the Imperial concubinage.  It is felt to be a blot on Japan’s fair name, a relic of her less civilized days, and is, accordingly, kept in the background as much as possible.  The statements given in the text in regard to the number of the concubines and children are correct so far as they go.  A full statement might require an increase in the figures given.]

[Footnote S:  P. 59.]

[Footnote T:  P. 119.]

[Footnote U:  Aston’s “Japanese Literature,” p. 29.]

[Footnote V:  “Japanese Literature,” p. 24.]

[Footnote W:  Cf. chapter xxxiii.]