Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West. --Janice P. Nimura, from the foreword. This is the story of one woman's remarkable life successfully navigating two very different cultures—the first memoir of an Asian-American woman. Beautifully told, this...