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A Daughter of the Samurai (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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A Daughter of the Samurai (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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A Daughter of the Samurai (1925) is an autobiography by Etsu
Inagaki Sugimoto. Born in Japan, she was sent to the United States
to fulfill an arranged marriage with a Japanese merchant. Raised in
a family whose prominence had fallen toward the end of the feudal
era, Sugimoto gained a unique perspective on Japanese life that
would shape her literary career and outlook as a professor at New
York's Columbia University. "Japan is often called by foreign
people a land of sunshine and cherry blossoms. [...] In the
province of Echigo, where was my home, winter usually began with a
heavy snow which came down fast and steady until only the thick,
round ridge-poles of our thatched roofs could be seen." Born and
raised in a northern province of Japan, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto came
from a family of high-ranking samurai officials. Originally
prepared to live as a priestess, Etsu became the center of her
father's attention when her brother eloped and left for America. No
longer financially stable, Sugimoto's father depended on his
children to secure their family's future. Soon, he arranged for his
daughter to marry a successful merchant living in Ohio, sending her
to Tokyo to study at a Methodist school. Then, she made the journey
across the ocean to start a new life in America. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Setsuko Hirakawa's A Daughter of the Samurai is a classic of
Japanese American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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