Samurai and silk : a Japanese and American heritage / Haru Matsukata Reischauer

By:

Haru Matsukata Reischauer [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1986.Description: x, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24cmISBN:

9780674788015

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

REF 952.030924 R27

Contents:

Matsukata Masayoshi Rioichiro Arai Descendants and Relatives

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DONATION	LAPULAPU-CEBU INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE REFERENCE SECTION	REF 952.030924 R27 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		005411

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

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