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A Daughter of the Samurai

Modern Library Torchbearers
A Daughter of the Samurai
A Daughter of the Samurai
  • Forfattere: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto , Karen Tei Yamashita
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 320
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Modern Library Torchbearers
  • EAN: 9780593242667
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki; Yamashita, Karen Tei
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A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she’s ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in this delightful, charming memoir, a tribute to the struggles of the first generation of Japanese immigrants—with an introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi 
 
The youngest daughter of a high-ranking samurai in late-nineteenth-century Japan, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is originally destined to be a Buddhist priestess. She grows up a curly haired tomboy in snowy Echigo, certain of her future role in her community. But as a young teenager, she is instead engaged to a Japanese merchant in Ohio—and Etsu realizes she will eventually have to leave the only world she has ever known for the United States.

Etsu arrives in Cincinnati as a bright-eyed and observant twenty-four-year-old, puzzled by the differences between the two cultures and alive to the contradictions, ironies, and beauties of both. Her memoir, reprinted for t