Samurai and silk : a Japanese and American heritage /
Haru Matsukata Reischauer
Samurai and silk : a Japanese and American heritage / Haru Matsukata Reischauer - Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1986. - x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
Matsukata Masayoshi
Rioichiro Arai
Descendants and Relatives
Reischauer, wife of a noted Japanese historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells the story of her two grandfathers: the famous Meiji statesman Matsukata Masayoshi, whose stringent financial policies are credited with steering Japan safely through its first economic crisis, and Arai Rioichiro, who helped develop Japan's silk exports to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their lives, inextricably interwoven with modern Japanese history, are vividly presented, along with fascinating glimpses of the family life of Japan's upper class in this period
9780674788015
Arai, Riōichirō 1855-1939
Matsukata, Masayoshi 1835-1924
Biographies
Businesspeople United States Biography
Japanese United States Biography
Statesmen Japan Biography
REF 952.030924 R27
Samurai and silk : a Japanese and American heritage / Haru Matsukata Reischauer - Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1986. - x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
Matsukata Masayoshi
Rioichiro Arai
Descendants and Relatives
Reischauer, wife of a noted Japanese historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, tells the story of her two grandfathers: the famous Meiji statesman Matsukata Masayoshi, whose stringent financial policies are credited with steering Japan safely through its first economic crisis, and Arai Rioichiro, who helped develop Japan's silk exports to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their lives, inextricably interwoven with modern Japanese history, are vividly presented, along with fascinating glimpses of the family life of Japan's upper class in this period
9780674788015
Arai, Riōichirō 1855-1939
Matsukata, Masayoshi 1835-1924
Biographies
Businesspeople United States Biography
Japanese United States Biography
Statesmen Japan Biography
REF 952.030924 R27