A Daughter of the Samurai: A Memoir

A bestseller when it was first published in 1925, A Daughter of the Samurai is the memoir of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto: the youngest daughter of a renowned samurai, born during Japan's last days of feudalism. Originally destined to be a Buddhist priestess, Etsu grows up a curly-haired tomboy in snowy Echigo, certain of her future role in her community. But as a young teenager, she is instead engaged to a Japanese merchant in Ohio-and Etsu realizes she will eventually have to leave the only worl...