A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she\'s ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in this delightful, charming memoir, a tribute to the struggles of the first generation of Japanese immigrants--with an introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi The youngest Daughter of a high-ranking samurai in late-nineteenth-century Japan, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is originally destined to be a Buddhist priestess.
She grows up a curly haired tomboy in.
A young Japanese woman leaves the only home she\'s ever known for married life in nineteenth-century Ohio in this delightful, charming memoir, a tribute to the struggles of the first generation of Japanese immigrants--with an introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi The youngest Daughter of a high-ranking samurai in late-nineteenth-century Japan, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is originally destined to be a Buddhist priestess
