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286:" novel which examines the lives of both Japanese and white women in the early 20th century. While admitting that American women are more "socially free" than Japanese women, Etsu-bō states they are the targets of male humor and disrespect in-contrast to the "subtle power" of Japanese women, whose role it is, as Etsu-bō explains, to manage the income and all expenses for the household, while granting their husbands pocket-money. Thus, they are financially educated, whereas she found that American women proclaim (sometimes with pride) to have no knowledge of financial matters. 299: 202: 54: 171:
Years passed, and Etsu-bō, the little girl who had listened to the story of the black ships and the red barbarians, herself went sailing on a black ship that moved without sails, to a new home in the distant land of the red barbarians. There she learned that hearts are the same on both sides of the
167:. She was 51 years old and had been living in the US for over 20 years when she wrote the book. Her intention in writing the book, as said through the protagonist Etsu-bō, was to clarify the secret that was hidden from people in the East and the West: 238:" myth. Despite this, or because of it, the book was successful, with Setsuko Hirakawa stating the book's success was due to increasing western curiosity of Japan. It had sold 10 million copies by 1962. 906: 192:
magazine before later being released as a book in 1925. A niece of Etsu's so-called "American mother", Florence Mills Wilson, had rewritten the manuscript prior to it being sent to publishers.
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Critic reviews, both contemporary and retrospective, have praised the book. Dorothy E. Guttmacher, writing for the
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world; but this is a secret that is hidden from the people of the East, and hidden from the people of the West.
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Some sources date the book's publication in 1926, however it was originally published the year prior.
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It has been translated into multiple languages, including a Japanese translation in 1943.
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prevented the immigration of people from Asian countries into the US, fueled by "
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The book consists of 32 chapters. It follows the immigration of Etsu-bō,
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described the book as "pure pose-poetry". Richard G. Hubler for the
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and compares the life of being a woman in Japan to in America.
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Books about the United States written by foreigners
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2015 book
Janice P. Nimura
1937 film
Arnold Fanck
Mansaku Itami

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Autobiographical novel
Doubleday
ISBN
978-1-646-79604-5
A Daughter of the Samurai
Wikisource
autobiographical novel
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Christopher Morley
Japan
Asia

A Daughter of the Samurai
author surrogate
United States of America
Immigration Act of 1924
Yellow Peril
Baltimore Sun
Joseph Conrad
Hartford Courant
Los Angeles Times
autobiography
memoir

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