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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, November 06, 1936, Image 3

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Same Japanese
Customs
By Joseph Stoudt
Just as any country has its owi
customs and traditions, so Japaj
has her particular customs whicl
have come down through the age
with little or no changes. Natural
ly most of these customs seem quee
to other people, but the fact tha
they are peculiar to Japan, and t
Japan alone, makes them all th
more unique and interesting.
Of the many Japanese custom
and practices, those which exist ii
a typical Japanese home are amon;
the most interesting. There is on
which is universally evident ii
every Japanese home, from th
wealthiest down to the most hum
bie. It is that of having a certai:
place in the main room of the hous
set aside for the sole purpose o
worshipping the various Japanes
gods as well as the ancestors of th
family. In this special location i
always some sort of shrine with in
numerable and attractive decora
tons. \\ ithin this shrine are place'
images of certain Japanese gods an'
and also of the outstanding ances
tors of that particular family. Th
whole family makes it a point t
worship at the shrine at least twic
a day, if not more often.
Another Japanese custom, whici
usually seems strange to the foreig
ner, is the fact that the Japanes
sleep on the floor instead of on
bed. However, the Japanese do no
sleep directly on the bare floor, bu
rather on a large thick mattress fill
ed with cotton. They cover them
selves with a blanket or quilt equal
| ly as large as the mattress they
j sleep on. A small wooden block, so
I shaped as to be comfortable to one’s
head, furnishes them with a pillow.
1 -^ny Japanese, upon entering his
1 home, promptly removes hs shoes
1 or wooden cloys (as they are prop
’ erly called). This is a typical and
well-established Japanese custom,
often seeming, to the inexperienced
c foreigner, a very unnecessary and
1 troublesome thing to do when go
; ing into a Japanese home or rest
aurant, and is done as an aid in
s keeping the house as clean as pos
i sible, for the Japanese on the whole
; take great pride in keeping their
i homes looking clean and neat,
l Besides the home customs of the
i Japanese, those dealing with family
relationship and marriage are espe
i daily interesting to us. For in
s stance, when a Japanese girl has
E reached the marrying age, her hus-j
; band is chosen for her by her par-!
5 ents. After that she is compelled;
s to marry him whether she actually j
- loves him or not. This peculiar;
- custom of marriage is a very old
1 one, dating back to the early years
1 of Japanese history.
Another Japanese family tradi
5 tion is that, in the family, the
) men hold a much higher social posi
• tion than do the women, the same
I being true with the boys and girls.
t;For example, in getting on the
-'street car the men invariably pre-|
» cede the women; and also, when the;
a; car is crowded, the men calmly take
t! all the empty seats, leaving the un
t fortunate women standine packed
-! tightly against each other.
Turning now from the customs 1
concerning the Japanese home and J
family, we go to the fhore general #
ones relating to the Japanese people j
as a whole. One practice which j
exists in the schools of Japan is that <
of having the hair of every school 1
boy closely clipped from the top j
of his head. This is compulsory in 1
all the schools from about the first ®
grade up through high school. Al- I
though it is not required in the <
colleges and universities, many of J
the snudents from those institutions 1
adhere to that age-old custom. J
However, there is one custom <
that is compulsory in all the schools, S
whether grade school or university, 1
and it is that every student, male 1
or female, must wear a certain uni- e
form prescribed by the particular 1
school from which they come. The |
boys must wear caps bearing the in- j
signia of their school, while whether |
the girls must wear a hat or not is J
left to the discretion of that cer- ^
tain school. In summer time the C
boys wear white uniforms, whereas |
the rest of the year they wear uni- 1
forms of a dark-blue color. 2
These are some of the present- |
day Japanese customs, and, while *
some of them may seem strange and ^
ridiculous to us Americans, we ^
must remember that we likewise |
have certain customs and practices #
in our country which to the Japan- ^
ese seem even more strange and C
nonsencsial. e
A difference of 2.4 tons of cured 2
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