A Daughter Of The Samurai

A Daughter of the Samurai 1925 is an autobiography by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. Born in Japan she was sent to the United States to fulfill an arranged marriage with a Japanese merchant. Raised in a family whose prominence had fallen toward the end of the feudal era Sugimoto gained a unique perspective on Japanese life that would shape her literary career and outlook as a professor at New Yorks Columbia University.