Sugimoto etsu Inagaki

Sugimoto etsu Inagaki ( Japanese 杉 本 鉞 子 , Sugimoto etsuko ; * 1873 in Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture (formerly Echigo Province ) northern Japan ; † 1950 ), was a Japanese autobiographer and novelist.

Life

Etsuko was born as the daughter of a Karō , the first counselor in the empire. The collapse of the feudal system shortly before her birth meant a decisive change in economic conditions for her family.

According to Japanese custom, Etsuko was engaged as a little girl to a Japanese merchant who lived in Cincinnati , USA . After attending a Methodist girls' school, Etsuko was sent to Tokyo to prepare for her life in America. She became a Christian and went to her new home in 1898 to get married. She soon became the mother of two daughters whom she later raised in Japan. In New York City , Etsuko then turned to literature and gave classes in Japanese language , history and culture at Columbia University . She also wrote for newspapers and magazines on the side. She returned to Japan in 1927. She died in 1950.

Works

• A Daughter of the Samurai , with Florence Wilson 1923, first published in Asia magazine
  • German daughter of the samurai . Rowohlt 1957.
• With Taro and Hana in Japan (in collaboration with Nancy Virginia Austen September 23, 1926)
• A Daughter of the Narikin (1932)
• In memoriam: Florence Mills Wilson (1933)
• A daughter of the Nohfu
  • German marriage in Nippon . Holle & Co. 1935.
• Grandmother O Kyo (1940)
• But the Ships Are Sailing (1959)

literature

• Text edition A Daughter of the Samurai (English)

Web links

• "Dual Images of 'An Ideal Japanese Woman' in a Critical Historical Period - through the analysis of A Daughter of the Samurai", essay by Hiroko Kugisima (Eng.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Sugimoto is the family name, Etsuko the first name.