Madame Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

A DAUGHTER OF
THE SAMURAI

BY

ETSU INAGAKI SUGIMOTO

INSTRUCTOR IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE ANDHISTORY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

How a daughter of feudal Japan,
livinghundreds of years in one generation,
became a modern American

FRONTISPIECE

BY

ICHIRO HORI

SPECIAL EDITION

PUBLISHED BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

FOR

JAPAN SOCIETY

36 WEST 44TH STREET

NEW YORK CITY

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Much of the material of this book originally appeared in Asia but hasbeen thoroughly revised for book publication.

COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE
& COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE
COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

WITH RESPECT AND LOVE AND DEEPEST GRATITUDE
I DEDICATE THESE SACRED MEMORIES

TO

MY TWO MOTHERS

WHOSE LIVES AND ENVIRONMENTS WERE FAR APART,
YET WHOSE HEARTS MET IN MINE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

TO

NANCY VIRGINIA AUSTEN

Whose pleasant friendship, energetic spirit, and practical knowledge
encouraged me to believe that a little Etsu-bo, with a heart full of
love for old Japan, could gather the falling fragments of samurai
spirit and weave them into a fragrant chain for the readers of to-day.

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