The First European Description of Japan, 1585 (70 page)

bullfighting,
173

Bungo consultation,
16
.
See also
Valignano

burial customs,
106
,
107
,
120
–
2
.
See also
religion

byôbu
,
40
,
169
,
199
,
209

Cabral, Francisco,
14

Camões, Luis de,
8

candles,
119
.
See also
religion

cantiga
,
235
.
See also
music
;
poetry

Carletti, Francesco,
250
–
1

Carpentry/carpenters,
207
–
9
.
See also
houses

Castiglione, Baldesar,
239

Chamberlain, Basil,
194
,
222
,
236

chanoyu
,
17
.
See also
Sen Rikyu

chastity.
See
gender, feminine

childbirth,
73

children and child-rearing,
83
–
92

China,
197

Chion-in,
117

chukei
,
104

cleanliness,
98
,
200
,
203

clocks,
117
.
See also
time reckoning

clothing,
272
; birth robe (
ubugi
),
83
; changing fashions,
38
–
9
; colors and fabrics,
38
,
48
; fitting,
40
; folding,
43
; formal attire,
41
; linings,
41
; men's,
33
–
57
; mending,
57
; patching,
50
–
1
; tailoring,
51
; women's,
60
–
2
,
64
–
6
,
72
,
78
,
80
; and pockets,
53
; and purses,
54
; and the seasons,
37
; of paper,
52
; washing,
53
,
203
.
See also
gender
,
head covering
, and
footwear

Coelho, Gaspar de,
12

Cohn, Bernard,
24

coins,
255
–
7

Columbus, Christopher,
163

coming of age (
genbuku
),
90
.
See also
children and child-rearing

commedia dell'Arte
,
231
.
See also
theater
;
Nô

communication, style of,
193
; etiquette governing,
266

concertina
,
239
,
240

containers (
furoshiki
),
207

contrition, expression of,
271

cormorants,
137

counting,
118
.
See also
abacus
and
soroban

cremation.
See
burial customs

crime, and punishment of,
246
–
52
; beheading,
251
; capital punishment,
159
; corporal punishment,
85
; cropping (removal of ear(s),
251
–
2
; crucifixion,
250
–
1
; executioners,
160
; hanging,
251
–
2
; murder,
103
,
246
–
7
; whipping,
251
–
2
.
See also
justice
;
theft

Cruz, Gaspar da,
197

cutlass.
See
swords

dachen
,
255
–
6
.
See also
weighing

Dade, William,
171

Damian, Peter,
93

dance,
101
,
233
,
234
,
242

darkness, fear of,
252
–
3

deceit,
99

Diamond, Jared,
219

De civilitate morum puerilum
,
134

defecation,
204
.
See also
waste

dentistry,
180
.
See also
teeth

desks,
191
,
193

diplomats,
97

disease.
See
health and medicine

distich, Frois use of,
19

Distichs of Cato
,
18

divorce,
67
–
69

doçaina
,
236
.
See also
music

doctors.
See
health and medicine

Dominicans,
108
.
See also
religion

drinking,
125
–
46
; vessels,
138
–
40
; water,
139
; wine,
137
,
138
,
144
,
269
,
272
; wine storage,
267
–
8
.
See also
alcohol consumption
;
drinking
;
eating

eating,
17
,
125
–
46
; banquets,
107
,
128
; chopsticks,
84
–
5
,
125
; courses,
127
;
fan–cai
principle; and gender,
125
; handwashing,
134
; and manners,
142
,
146
; seating,
126
–
7
,
137
; and servants,
134
; serving,
133
; and singing and dancing,
142
; tablecloths,
127
; table-service,
129
; and teeth cleaning,
140
,
143
.
See also
food
;
drinking

Edo,
245

education,
83
–
6
; humanist,
184
.
See also
children and child-rearing

Envelopes,
189
–
91
.
See also
letters
;
writing

Erasmus, Desiderius,
48
,
134

Europe, notions of,
21

Fabian, Fukan,
26

falconry,
265

family relations,
91

fans,
51
,
160

feet, use in performing work,
265
–
6
.
See also
footwear
;
walking

fencing,
36
,
162
.
See also
swords
and
weapons and warfare

fictive kin,
89
.
See also
children and child-rearing

fire,
244
–
6

fishing,
143

flags,
156

Flemish painters,
113

flies, catching of,
259

food,
125
–
46
; boar,
145
; bread,
125
,
133
; condiments,
132
; dairy,
141
; dog,
135
,
141
; figs,
272
; fish,
130
–
1
,
136
–
7
,
142
,
143
,
144
; fowl,
129
,
144
; fruit,
131
,
132
,
272
; and great chain of being,
132
; meat,
126
,
141
; monkey,
136
; noodles,
135
; pickling,
131
–
3
; rice,
125
,
126
,
133
,
139
; salt,
145
–
6
; seaweed,
136
; soup,
128
,
129
,
146
; spices,
135
,
141
; sweets,
133
–
4
,
145
; verjuice,
132
.
See also
eating
;
drinking

footwear,
49
,
54
–
6
; removing as courtesy,
49
; and walking,
56

fortifications,
152
.
See also
weapons and warfare

Foucault, Michel,
23
,
25
.
See also
governmentality

Francis, Saint,
106
.
See also
religion

Franciscans,
106
,
108
.
See also
religion

Frazer, Mrs. Hugh,
168

funerals.
See
burial customs

furniture,
198
–
207
.
See also
houses

gardens,
213
–
16
; fountains vs ponds,
213
, absence of grass,
211
; scent of flowers,
215
; trees,
210
,
213
,
215
; pine-nuts,
214
–
15

Gama, Vasco da,
7

games,
91
,
262
–
3
,
265

gender, masculine,
33
–
57
; and chastity,
58
–
9
; confinement of,
69
–
70
,
73
; and drinking,
81
; and eating,
77
–
8
; education of,
74
; fetishization of,
58
,
64
; and footwear,
64
,
75
; letters of,
75
; names,
75
; riding posture,
76
; sitting posture,
80
–
1
; and speaking,
78
; and teeth color alteration,
63
; and travel,
69
–
70
; violence against,
270
–
1
; and
walking
,
65
–
6
; and writing,
74
–
5
.
See also
makeup
;
clothing, women's

gifting,
89
,
260
–
1
,
268
–
70

Gill, Robin,
173

Girl's Day,
89

gloves,
55
.
See also
clothing
;
swords

Gokinai [region],
264
–
5

Goto Islands,
253
–
4

Goa,
8

godparents.
See
fictive kin

Golownin, Captain R. N.,
202
,
203
,
212

Gonçalves, Nuno,
113

governmentality,
23
–
26
.
See also
Foucault

grammar, inflections in,
257
–
8

great chain of being,
173
.
See also
food

Greenblatt, Stephen,
23

guns.
See
weapons and warfare

Gutenberg, Johannes,
184

gypsies,
239

Hagoromo
,
228

hair,
34
,
35
,
42
,
100
; cutting,
272
; facial,
34
,; placing (
kami–oki
),
83
; shaving,
161
;
See also
head covering

Hakodate (Hokkaido),
237

hands, warming of,
266

hand-washing,
258

handkerchief, use of,
18

handwriting,
192
.
See also
letters
;
writing

Harris, Ambassador,
171

hats.
See
head covering

head covering,
100
,
242
,
264
–
5
.
See also
clothing, men's
;
clothing, women's
health and medicine,
175
–
82
, bandages,
178
–
9
; beds and sickness,
179
; doctors,
104
,
181
; enemas,
177
; illness,
175
–
82
; medicine as a gift,
260
–
1
; moxibustion,
91
–
2
,
175
–
6
; phlebotomy,
175
–
4
; and pearls,
180
; pulse taking,
177
; smallpox,
36
; and spices,
180
; and stones (bezoars)
180
; treatment of wounds,
178
–
9

Heike-monogatari
,
239

Henriques, Francisco,
113

Herodotus,
265

Hideyoshi, Toyotomi,
27
,
28
,
189
,
221
,
229
,
236

Hirota, Dennis,
17

hoes,
271

homo monstrum
,
6

horses,
163
–
74
; bells and rattles,
172
–
3
; behavior,
166
; bloodletting,
171
; bridles,
165
; cleaning,
168
; farriers,
165
; feeding,
168
; halter,
165
; loading,
173
; manes,
164
,
272
; mounting,
165
; moxibustion,
176
; ownership,
167
; reins,
165
,
172
; restraint,
169
; riding,
164
,
170
–
2
,
242
; saddles,
166
–
7
,
170
,
172
,
174
; and Shinto,
164
; shoes,
165
; sleeping,
169
; stables,
167
–
9
; stalls,
168
; stirrups,
166
; spurs,
166
; tails,
164
; tack,
167
; urination,
170
.
See also
mules