The objective of this study is to make clear how extensively the patriarchalism spread through the public, and also to make clear the paternal authority that the common people thought of. The results were as follows: 1.The life of the common people was isolated from the patriarchalism. The civil code and textbooks in the Meiji era did not exert a powerful influence on the establishment of patriarchalism. 2.Most of the people that were educated with the textbooks in the Meiji era could not establish the paternal authority.
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