Kawada Ryōkichi - Jeanie Eadie's Samurai : : The Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur and Agricultural Pioneer / / Andrew Cobbing, Masatarō Itami.
In the early 1880s, Kawada Ryokichi, a young samurai training at a shipyard on Clydeside, near Glasgow, met and fell in love with a Glaswegian girl - a bookshop assistant - by the name of Jeanie Eadie, and took the many letters she wrote to him (together with a lock of her hair) back to Japan in 188...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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