page_title: Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
section_title: Personal life and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Matilda Chaplin Ayrton / Personal life and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: childlifeinjapan01ayrt (find matches) Title: Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed Subjects: Children Fairy tales Publisher: Boston and New York, D.C. Heath &amp; co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: He makes you evenimagine he has four arms, so cleverly can he twistround his arm and gracefully fan what is in realitythe back of his head. The tops the lads are playing with in this pic-ture ^ are not quite the same shape as our tops,but they spin very well. Some men are so cleverat making spinning-tops run along strings, throw-ing them up into the air and catching them witha tobacco-pipe, that they earn a living by exhibit-ing their skill. Some of the tops are formed of short pieces ofbamboo with a wooden peg put through them,and the hole cut in the side makes them havea fine hum as the air rushes in whilst theyspin. The boys in the next large picture (p. 9) mustbe playing with the puppies of a large dog, tojudge from their big paws. There are a greatmany large dogs in the streets of Tokio; someare very tame, and will let children comb theirhair and ornament them and pull them about.These dogs do not wear collars, as do our petdogs, but a wooden label bearing the owners * Sc^ p^e 7. Text Appearing After Image: Playing with Doggy. lo Child-Life in Japan. name Is hung round their necks. Other bigdogs are almost wild. Half-a-dozen of these dogs will lie in one place,stretched drowsily on the grassy city walls underthe trees, during the daytime. Towards eveningthey rouse themselves and run off to yards anarubbish-heaps to pick up what they can. Theywill eat fish, but two or three dogs soon get toknow where the meat-eating Englishmen live.They come trotting in regularly with a business-like air to search among the days refuse forbones. Should any interloping dog try to estab-lish a right to share the feast he can only gainhis footing after a victorious battle. All thesedogs are very wolfish-looking, with straight hair^which is usually white or tan-colored. Thereare other pet dogs kept in houses. These looksomething like spaniels. They are small, withtheir black noses so much turned up that itseems as if, when they were puppies, they hadtumbled down and broken the bridge of theirnose. They are of Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Matilda Charlotte Chaplin Ayrton was an English physician. She studied medicine in London, Edinburgh and Paris, pursuing higher studies at the latter's universities, and is one of the Edinburgh Seven, the first seven matriculated undergraduate female students at a British university. She travelled to Japan, where she opened a school for midwives, and was an author of anthropological studies.
context_section_description: Ayrton always took a lively interest in attempts to improve the educational opportunities and social position of women. She actively aided the establishment of a club for women students in Paris, and helped to organise the Somerville Club for women in London."
  Chaplin and Ayrton's daughter was the feminist and author Edith Ayrton, wife of Israel Zangwill and mother of Oliver Zangwill.
  Ayrton died in London on 19 July 1883, aged 37.
  
  The Edinburgh Seven were awarded the posthumous honorary MBChB at the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall on Saturday 6 July 2019. The degrees were collected on their behalf by a group of current students at Edinburgh Medical School. The graduation was the first of a series of events planned by the University of Edinburgh to commemorate the achievements and significance of the Edinburgh Seven.
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