Foot Notes

(1) Third Annual Report of the Womens Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia, 1886 [return to text]

(2) Called "Yedo" at that time. [return to text]

(3) The Friend (Philadelphia) 9th Month 10, 1936. [return to text]

(4) To the modern reader, Sen Tsuda is best known through his daughter, Ume Tsuda. [return to text]

(5) Hijirizaka. [return to text]

(6) cf. Cover. [return to text]

(7) "Heiwa". [return to text]

(8) Cf. P. 10 for Zen and Quaker resemblances and differences. [return to text]

(9) "Tomo", i.e. "The Friend", since 1921. Before that "Ai no Tomo", meaning the Friend of Love". [return to text]

(10) It was Edith Newlin, a teacher in the Friends Girls School from 1918 to 1927 who first realized the importance of the principle of self-government for Japanese girls, and who, with the cooperation of Japanese teachers and pupils, worked out the details of the present system. [return to text]

(11) Its members were Tetsuro Sawano, Setsuzo Sawada, Thomas E. Jones, Alice G. Lewis, Esther B. Rhoads, Tatsunosuke Ueda, Seiju Hirakawa, Minoru Maeda, and Mansaku Nakamura. [return to text]

(12) Cf. also last paragraph of section entitled Friends Girls School, p. 29. [return to text]