i 4 PRIMITIVE PATERNITY 



while in the other cases the sojourn of the husband in 

 his wife's home is of a temporary character, leading 

 to the removal of his wife and children to his own 

 home, with the Puyumas and Amis he enters the 

 wife's family permanently and eventually becomes its 

 head. 



In Japan it would seem that descent was originally 

 matrilineal. The wife remained with her own rela- 

 tives and the husband had only the right of visiting 

 her by night. The word for marriage signified to slip 

 by night into the house. It was only in the fourteenth 

 century of our era that the husband's residence became 

 the centre of family life and marriage became a 

 regular dwelling together by the married pair. Even 

 now when a man marries an only daughter he goes to 

 live at her house and the children take her family 

 name. There is moreover another type of marriage 

 in which a man who has daughters but no son adopts 

 a stranger and gives him one of his daughters in 

 marriage. Children born of this union are considered 

 as heirs of their maternal grandfather, and their father 

 has a far from enviable position in the family. 1 



An interesting relic of marriage in which the hus- 

 band visited his wife only in secret is found among the 



1 I^Annee Soc. viii. 422, citing Kojiro Twasaky, Das Japanische 

 Erbrecht; 410, citing F. Tsugaru, Die Lehre von der Jap. Adoption. 

 See also Ibid. v. 343, citing T. Fukuda, Die gesellsch. und wirtsch. 

 Entwickelung in Japan. "En effet, quand Thorn me ne pouvait 

 acheter sa femme ou la capturer, il n'avait pas le droit de F emmener 

 chez lui ; il ne pouvait avoir de commerce avec elle que dans la 

 maison de ses beaux-parents et les enfants, issus d'une telle union, 

 appartenaient a la famille de la mere." If Morgan's information be 

 correct the husband not merely of the only daughter, but of the 

 eldest daughter goes to her father's house to reside and takes her 

 family name (Morgan, Sysf. Consang. 428). 



