Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (1874–1950)
Author of A Daughter of the Samurai
About the Author
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (1874-1950) was born in Nagaoka, Japan, the daughter of a high-ranking advisor to a powerful lord, a few years after the Meiji Restoration ended Japan's feudal system. Her father died when she was eleven; soon afterward, she became engaged to Matsunosuke Sugimoto, a merchant show more living in the United States. Etsu arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1898. Later she lived in New York City, where she taught Japanese language, culture, and history at Columbia University. show less
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Enthronement of the one hundred twenty-fourth emperor of Japan — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- 杉本 鉞子
- Birthdate
- 1874
- Date of death
- 1950-06-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Japan (Birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Nagaoka, Japan
- Places of residence
- Nagaoka, Japan (Birth)
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA - Occupations
- Teacher, Japanese Language, Culture, and History at Columbia University
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A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu I Sugimoto
A daughter of the samurai: how a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation, became a modern American. The most striking thing is that she is describing her childhood from the inside, as the Samurai daughter being brought up into the traditional woman's role and ALSO having the education almost of a son (both roles stiff with honor and hedged with tradition)--but from the perspective of the American acculturated woman that she became--and that this is the _same person_.
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