Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

'A Daughter of the Samurai'

Bog | Engelsk

"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West." Janice P. Nimura, from the foreword. This classic

'A Daughter of the Samurai'

Bog | Engelsk

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