By Janice P. Nimura
ISBN-10: 0393248240
ISBN-13: 9780393248241
A brand new York occasions amazing ebook of 2015
"Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall); "beautifully crafted...subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff).
In 1871, 5 younger women have been despatched by way of the japanese executive to the U.S.. Their project: study Western methods and go back to assist nurture a brand new iteration of enlightened males to steer Japan.
Raised in conventional samurai families in the course of the turmoil of civil warfare, 3 of those strange ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as general American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they grew to become celebrities, their travels and standard garments exclaimed over via newspapers around the country. As they discovered English and Western customs, their American associates grew to like them for his or her excessive spirits and highbrow brilliance.
The passionate relationships they shaped exhibit an intimate international of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they back to Japan—a land grown overseas to them—determined to revolutionize women's education.
Based on in-depth archival learn in Japan and within the usa, together with many years of letters from among the 3 ladies and their American host households, Daughters of the Samurai is superbly, cinematically written, a desirable lens wherein to view a rare ancient moment.
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28 THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS So up and down the wooded tongue of land That thins to where the rivers wed, awoke The sound of many axes, stroke on stroke; And lustily the hewers sang at whiles The better to forget the homeward miles In this, the homing time. And when the geese With cacophonic councils broke the peace Of frosty nights before they took to wing; When cranes went over daily, southering, And blackbirds chattered in the painted wood, A mile above the river junction stood The fort, adjoining the Missouri's tide.
The boat crews, lolling in a semi-doze, Still watch the herd; nor do the gazers dream What drama nears a climax over stream, What others yonder may be watching too. Now looming large upon the lucent blue, The foremost ponies top the rim, and stare High-headed down the vacancies of air Beneath them; while the herders dawdle still And gather wool scarce halfway up the hillA slumbrous sight beheld by heavy eyes. But hark t What murmuring of far-flung cries From yonder pocket in the folded rise That flanks the draw?
Glass or gourd, Shure, now, they're all wan liquor whin they're poured I Aye, rum is rum, me b'y I" THE NET IS CAST Alas, the tongue I How glibly are its easy guesses Hung Against the knowing reticence of years, To echo laughter in the time of tears, Raw gusts of mocking merriment that stings I Some logic in the seeming ruck of things Inscrutably confutes us I Now had come The time when rum no longer should be rum, But witchwine sweet with peril. It befell In this wise, insofar as tongue may tell And tongues repeat the little eyes may guess Of what may happen in that wilderness, The human heart.
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