A daughter of the Samurai by Etsuko Sugimoto
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"A Daughter of the Samurai" by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is an autobiographical novel published in 1925. The book follows Etsu-bō's journey from Japan to America, exploring the contrasts between women's lives in both cultures. Written to reveal that "hearts are the same on both sides of the world," it examines gender roles, social freedoms, and the "subtle power" of women in each society. Despite anti-Asian immigration sentiment of the era, the book
became remarkably successful, selling ten million copies by 1962. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sugimoto, Etsuko, 1873-1950 |
|---|---|
| Title | A daughter of the Samurai |
| Original Publication | United States: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Daughter_of_the_Samurai |
| Credits | Emmanuel Ackerman, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia |
| Subject | Autobiographies |
| Subject | Japan -- Social life and customs |
| Subject | Immigrants -- United States -- Biography |
| Subject | Sugimoto, Etsuko, 1873-1950 |
| Subject | Japanese -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Biography |
| Subject | Women -- Japan -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 70766 |
| Release Date | May 15, 2023 |
| Last Update | Sep 23, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 704 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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