98早稲田教育評論 第 36 巻第１号thought of young Mongolian women and what were their expectations from the two female teachers.The Mongolian girls enrolled in schools met the Japanese for the first time, and had never seen a textbook or a blackboard. They stared at the teachers’ clothes, glasses, leather shoes, and other articles. It was not easy to even get them to change their Mongolian clothes for sailor suits for schoolgirls. It took great effort to get them used to their new lives at the school and the dormitory. When they entered the school, the Mongolian girls went to bed with their socks on as they did not like to show their bare feet to others. They also did not wear nightgowns, and when they saw the prefect’s nightgown, they would ask her what it was. The Mongolians were unable to distinguish between high and low tones, and would sing loud and out-of-tune songs, a habit developed while living in the steppe and desert.However, under the guidance of the teachers, the girls changed their primitive makeup routine from washing their faces with milk to applying cream, learned to look in the mirror, took a bath once a week, and washed their faces in a basin. Within three months, they were able to speak some Japanese, and sang “Japanese,” “Mongolian,” “Manchurian,” and “Chinese” songs in the weekly hour-long classes. These girls, aged 12 to 19 years, soon became lovely, and could talk with their Japanese teachers about menstrual and marriage problems, the topics they had never talked about even with their Mongolian parents.When these lovely girls sang “Genghis Khan’s Departure Song,” “Horse’s Song,” and “Mother’s Lesson Girl” amid the sunset clouds during their study time, the Japanese female teachers would be overcome by emotion that made them want to hug their pupils （The Manchurian Daily News, December 12, 1939）.Thirty-seven years ago, on December 13, 1903, Misako Kawahara entered the royal government of Horqin, Inner Mongolia, as an educational advisor. Kawahara helped Teisuke Oki and Minatogawa with their special missions. Today, two Japanese women are heroically following the blazing path that Misako Kawahara walked. They are Shu Domoto and Kimiko Yamane, teachers at the Mongolian Women’s Vocational High School, who live in a house made of mud, and have devoted their lives to the education of 50 Mongolian girls, leaving behind their youth and beauty at the age of 26 and 24, respectively.After graduating from the Women’s Normal School in Akashi, Domoto worked at the Nishinomiya Elementary School for four years before joining the Women’s Academy in Tongliao in April 1938. Yamane, after graduating from Kyoto Prefectural Women’s Vocational School, entered the teaching profession through the mediation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.The two women threw themselves into the unimaginably difficult task of teaching different 7.1.1 Mongolian Spirit of Female Students part17.1.2 Mongolian Spirit of Female Students part2
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