A Daughter of the Samurai
Author: Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki
ISBN: 9780593242667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Sep 2021
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
B>A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in a delightful and charming memoir about learning your own strengths and finding your way between two cultures./B>BR>BR>b>A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio inthis 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/b> br> br>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. br>br>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 the first time in decades, isanunforgettable story of a strong and determined woman.br>br>b>The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance./b>
ISBN: 9780593242667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Sep 2021
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
B>A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in a delightful and charming memoir about learning your own strengths and finding your way between two cultures./B>BR>BR>b>A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she's ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio inthis 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/b> br> br>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. br>br>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 the first time in decades, isanunforgettable story of a strong and determined woman.br>br>b>The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance./b>
