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  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    A Daughter of the Samurai (1925) is an autobiographical memoir by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto that recounts her childhood and early life as the daughter of a Japanese samurai during the late 19th century. The book portrays traditional Japanese customs, values, and social structures, especially the discipline, honor, and gender expectations of samurai culture. It also describes Etsu’s...
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  • La figlia del Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto nacque in una famiglia di samurai negli anni successivi alla Restaurazione Meiji del 1868. In questa autobiografia, racconta le sue esperienze di crescita in una cultura con aspettative molto rigide. Mentre l’influenza e il potere della sua famiglia declinano, viene combinato per lei un matrimonio e parte per raggiungere il suo futuro marito in America.La ...
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  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was born into a samurai family after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. In this autobiography, she recounts her experiences growing up in a culture with severely strict expectations. As her family’s influence and power wanes, a marriage is arranged for her, and she leaves to join her future husband in America.Etsu’s story is interleaved with insightful explana...
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  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    2023 Reprint of the 1925 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Born in 1874 as the youngest daughter of a samurai and former daimyo-a feudal prince under shogunate rule-the author grew up surrounded by ghosts of an aristocratic military lineage. Having fought on the losing side in the wars that installed the ...
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    20,24 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    A Daughter of the Samurai is written by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. Her story, as Sugimoto tells it, is: “How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation, became a modern American.” In this book, intriguing intimate episodes involving love, duty, and family ties are revealed even as there was clash of cultures and misunderstandings between Japanese and Wes...
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    21,99 €

  • Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
    Anonymous / Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairytale in Alliterative Verse is a heroic romance published anonymously in the 14th century by the 'Gawayne Poet.' One of the best known Arthurian stories, Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairytale in Alliterative Verse has been translated by the likes J.R.R. Tolkien and adapted four times for film. At a New Year’s Eve celebration in Ki...
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  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    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 feudal era, Sugimoto gained a unique perspective on Japanese life that would shape her literary career and outlook as a profe...
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    10,65 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Sugimoto Inagaki
    Books are not merely stories to be read and forgotten. Rather they are the vehicle that transports us to an era or place that may have accumulated the dust of time. The novel The Daughters of the is a true story of the three Japanese girls who were sent to America to learn their modern American ways and come back to fulfil their mission to educate the Japanese women back home. ...
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    19,79 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai (Warbler Classics)
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    A Daughter of the Samurai offers an elegant account of a world that had all but vanished by the time Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto put pen to paper. In her beguiling memoir Sugimoto chronicles her childhood in the frozen Nagaoka region of Japan, where she grows up in a high-ranking samurai family in the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration that stripped the samurai class of many of its p...
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    12,92 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    'The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here is my own gradual but inevitable mental evolution.'-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai (1926)A Daughter of the Samurai (1926) by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is the insightful account of the author’s drastic change of culture from feudal Japan to an arra...
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    25,39 €