Point of Departure 3: A (Mostly Detached) Memoir of a Person
Point of Departure 4: A (Mostly Detached) Memoir of a Place
Point of Departure 5: A Reflection Upon An Eyewitness Event
Point of Departure 9: A Family Anecdote
The Destined Goal: A Full Autobiography
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
CHAPTER I: My Birth and Parentage—Early Tastes and Travels—Marriage, and Widowho
CHAPTER II: Struggles for Life—The Cholera in Jamaica—I leave Kingston for the I
CHAPTER V: American Sympathy—I take an Hotel in Cruces—My Customers—Lola Montes—
CHAPTER VI: MIGRATION TO GORGONA—FAREWELL DINNERS AND SPEECHES—A BUILDING SPECUL
CHAPTER VIII: I LONG TO JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL—MY WANDERINGS AB
CHAPTER IX: VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE—MALTA—GIBRALTAR—CONSTANTINOPLE, AND WHAT I
CHAPTER XI: ALARMS IN THE HARBOUR—GETTING THE STORES ON SHORE—ROBBERY BY NIGHT A
CHAPTER XIII: MY WORK IN THE CRIMEA.
CHAPTER XIV: MY CUSTOMERS AT THE BRITISH HOTEL.
CHAPTER XVI: UNDER FIRE ON THE FATAL 18TH OF JUNE—BEFORE THE REDAN—AT THE CEMETE
CHAPTER XVIII: HOLIDAY IN THE CAMP—A NEW ENEMY, TIME—AMUSEMENTS IN THE CRIMEA—MY
CONCLUSION.
Primary Navigation
CHAPTER I: Early Years
CHAPTER III: A Strike in Virginia
CHAPTER IV: Wayland’s Appeal to Reason
CHAPTER V: Victory at Arnot
CHAPTER IX: Murder in West Virginia
CHAPTER X: The March of the Mill Children
CHAPTER XI: Those Mules Won’t Scab Today
CHAPTER XIV: Child Labor
CHAPTER XXII: “You Don’t Need a Vote to Raise Hell”
CHAPTER XXV: Struggle and Lose: Struggle and Win
CHAPTER XXVI: Medieval West Virginia
A Daughter of the Samurai
CHAPTER III: DAYS OF KAN
CHAPTER V: FALLING LEAVES
CHAPTER VII: THE WEDDING THAT NEVER WAS
CHAPTER VIII: TWO VENTURES
CHAPTER IX: THE STORY OF A MARIONETTE
CHAPTER XI: MY FIRST JOURNEY
CHAPTER XII: TRAVEL EDUCATION
CHAPTER XIX: THINKING
CHAPTER XXI: NEW EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER XXIII: CHIYO
CHAPTER XXVII: HONORABLE GRANDMOTHER
There were rows and rows of high narrow boxes containing a whole library of sof
CHAPTER XXXII: THE BLACK SHIPS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER I: EARLIEST MEMORIES
CHAPTER II: A CATHOLIC HOUSEHOLD
CHAPTER III: PAULINE ENTERS THE CARMEL
CHAPTER V: VOCATION OF THÉRÈSE
CHAPTER VI: A PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
CHAPTER VII: THE LITTLE FLOWER ENTERS THE CARMEL
CHAPTER VIII: PROFESSION OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE
CHAPTER X: THE NEW COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER XI: A CANTICLE OF LOVE
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A Daughter of the Samurai
A Daughter of the Samurai
A DAUGHTER OF THE SAMURAI
BY
ETSU INAGAKI SUGIMOTO
INSTRUCTOR IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND HISTORY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation, became a modern American
WITH RESPECT AND LOVE AND DEEPEST GRATITUDE I DEDICATE THESE SACRED MEMORIES
TO MY TWO MOTHERS WHOSE LIVES AND ENVIRONMENTS WERE FAR APART, YET WHOSE HEARTS MET IN MINE
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
TO
NANCY VIRGINIA AUSTEN
Whose pleasant friendship, energetic spirit, and practical knowledge encouraged me to believe that a little Etsu-bo, with a heart full of love for old Japan, could gather the falling fragments of samurai spirit and weave them into a fragrant chain for the readers of to-day.