Retrieving the soul fragments of the samurai through
the true memories of a daughter who lived between two worlds!
From the mountains of Itsugo, Japan, to Cincinnati, USA, and back to Tokyo, Etsu-bo, a tomboy – called the brave son of her fallen samurai father – a free-spirited woman out of step with her time, describes a Japan that is now lost in the mists of time. Society and its classes, religious beliefs – between Buddhism and Shintoism – architecture, myths and legends, poetry, literature and theater have their place in the pages of this book, with the specter of strict protocol and the rigid spirit of the samurai to wander among them.
When, now, Etsu-bo crosses to the other side of the ocean, she discovers the similarities and differences between Japanese women and American women, while she begins to develop feminist views. Marriage, children, family relationships, debt to manners and customs, the internal struggle of the Japanese woman with the young woman who wants to become Americanized star in the cherry blossom-scented memoir of the uncompromising Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, who would have been impossible to remain closed in the limited society of old Nagaoka.
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