{"product_id":"a-daughter-of-the-samurai-memoir-of-a-remarkable-asian-american-woman-9780804859219","title":"A Daughter of the Samurai: Memoir of a Remarkable Asian-American Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e --Janice P. Nimura, from the foreword.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis classic memoir tells the story of a remarkable Asian-American woman navigating two very different cultures--a loyal wife, a widowed mother, and a bilingual breadwinner--who finds her voice in a strange new world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollow her journey as she: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitnesses her father prepare and perform ritual seppuku, and her mother burn down the ancestral home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBids an emotional farewell and sails across the ocean to marry a wealthy merchant in a new land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReturns to Tokyo with her two daughters and mother-in-law, only to find her homeland as alien as America, forcing her to reinvent herself to provide for her family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEventually returns to America with her children after the death of her mother-in-law\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn international bestseller when first published a century ago, \u003ci\u003eA Daughter of the Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e remains a testament to a woman's resolve, strength, and endurance. This edition includes a new foreword by 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Janice P. Nimura.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEtsu Inagaki Sugimoto\u003c\/b\u003e (1874-1950) was a Japanese-American writer and educator. She began writing essays on Japan for local Cincinnati newspapers to practice her English, then for the magazine \u003ci\u003eAsia\u003c\/i\u003e, which were later published in book form as \u003ci\u003eA Daughter of the Samurai.\u003c\/i\u003e This book became an international bestseller. Sugimoto went on to publish several other novels and eventually moved to New York where she taught Japanese language and history at Columbia University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanice P. Nimura\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDaughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable book in 2015. More recently, she received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on \u003ci\u003eThe Doctors Blackwell\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Morley\u003c\/b\u003e (1890-1957) was a journalist, author, lecturer and theatrical producer best known for the novels \u003ci\u003eParnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKitty Foyle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635392676114,"sku":"9780804859219","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7b4752e-f9f4-498c-9af1-15ace8144a4b.jpg?v=1759232606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-daughter-of-the-samurai-memoir-of-a-remarkable-asian-american-woman-9780804859219","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}