Onna Daigaku

Kaibara Ekken

Translated by Shingoro Takaishi

6 chapters · about 12 min

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The opening

‘iT GIRL’S INSTRUCTION

GIRL’S INSTRUCTION

QEEING that it is a girl’s destiny, on reaching womanhood, to go to a new home, and live in submission to her father-in-law, it is even more incumbent upon her than it is on a boy to receive with all reverence her parents’ instructions. Should her parents, through her tenderness, allow her to grow up self-willed, she will infallibly show herself capricious in her husband’s house, and thus alienate his affection; while, if her father-in-law be a man of correct principles, the girl will find the yoke of these principles intolerable. She will hate and decry her father-in-law, and the end of these domestic dissensions will be her dismissal from her husband’s house and the covering of herself with ignominy. Her parents, forgetting the faulty education they gave her, may, indeed, lay all the blame on the father-in-law. But they will be in error; for the whole disaster should rightly be attributed to the faulty education the girl received from her parents.

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About this edition

The words
Shingoro Takaishi's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Other material that isn't the author's
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
  • A stray OCR speck: a speck at the top of a page, read as “ed”
  • Printed ornaments and dividers
  • A stray OCR speck: a speck under the chapter III heading, read as “ce ”” (no words)
  • A stray OCR speck: a speck at the top of a page, read as “oA”
  • A stray OCR speck: a speck at the foot of the last page of chapter VI, read as “y”
  • The scanning library's accession number stamped on a page of Appendix A (“48932”)
  • The printer's imprint (“Printed by Hassell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.”), with a speck
  • The scanning library's digitizing notice on the back page (“Digitized with financial assistance from ...”) (7 blocks)
  • The back cover, read by the OCR as stray letters (“A raaaiasr nants tr grt”) (3 blocks)