Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (Japanese杉 本 钺 子, Etsuko Sugimoto, * 1873 in Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture (formerly the province of Echigo ) Northern Japan, † 1950) was a Japanese Autobiographin and novelist.

Life

Etsuko was born the daughter of a check, first counselor in the Empire. The collapse of the feudal system shortly before her birth, her family meant a significant change in economic conditions.

According to Japanese custom Etsuko had already been betrothed as a little girl a Japanese merchant who lived in Cincinnati in the United States. After attending a Methodist Girls School Etsuko was sent to Tokyo to prepare for their life in America. She was a Christian and went in 1898 in the new home to get married. Soon she became a mother of two daughters, who she later educated in Japan. In New York City itself Etsuko then turned to the literature and gave at Columbia University teaching Japanese language, history and culture. She also explores wrote for newspapers and magazines. She returned to Japan in 1927. She died in 1950.

Works

• Daughter of the Samurai (1923, orig. " A Daughter of the Samurai ", first published in the journal Asia)
• With Taro and Hana in Japan (in collaboration with Nancy Virginia Austen September 23, 1926 )
• A Daughter of the Narikin (1932 )
• In memorium: Florence Mills Wilson ( 1933)
• Marriage in Nippon (1935, orig. "A Daughter of the Nohfu " )
• Grandmother O Kyo (1940 )
• But the Ships Are Sailing (1959 )