Haru Matsukata Reischauer <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Matsukata Masayoshi<br/>Rioichiro Arai<br/>Descendants and Relatives 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674788015 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Arai, Riōichirō  1855-1939 <br/>Matsukata, Masayoshi  1835-1924 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biographies<br/>Businesspeople United States Biography<br/>Japanese United States Biography<br/>Statesmen Japan Biography
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 952.030924 R27