抄録
(1) Ejiko is a child's cradle used among the folk-societies in the northeastern part of Japan. The most common type is made of straw (coiling) as shown in Fig. 1-3, in which a child squats, wrapped by futon (quilt) and tied by a rope. During a day, while the whole family is out for work, the child is left completely alone in the house, crying and screaming, but without any bodily movement; hence it is often the case that flies collect on the child's face, or a cat squats on it, etc. It is therefore obvious that this child-rearing pattern may give the child a great amount of frustration and his personality formation is considerably influenced by it. (Although WHITING concludes that the "independence training" is most severe among the Ainu(7), this Japanese pattern may exceed in this aspect.)
