A Daughter of the Samurai

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto's 1925 memoir of growing up in a high-ranking samurai family in Nagaoka in the last years of feudal Japan, and of her move to the United States for an arranged marriage. She writes in English about two worlds and how they looked to her.

Content note: Written in 1925, with the terms and attitudes of its time about Japan, the West and women.