By Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
ISBN-10: 0090546105
ISBN-13: 9780090546107
ISBN-10: 0898753481
ISBN-13: 9780898753486
Madam Sugimoto was once born in Japan, now not within the sunny southern a part of the rustic which has given it the identify of "The Land of Flowers," yet within the northern province of Echigo that's bleak and chilly and so bring to an end from the remainder of the rustic by means of mountains that during instances prior it were thought of healthy just for political prisoners or exiles.
Her father used to be a Samurai, with excessive beliefs of what used to be anticipated of a Samurai's relations. His hopes have been focused in his son till the son refused to marry the lady for whom he was once destined and ran off to the United States. After that every one that was once intended for him fell to the lot of the little wavy-haired Etsu who writes right here so delightfully of the issues that occurred of their formative years days in far-away Japan.
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Daughter of the Samuari by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
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