Kawada Ryōkichi - Jeanie Eadie's Samurai : : The Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur and Agricultural Pioneer / / Andrew Cobbing, Masatarō Itami.

• VerfasserIn: Cobbing, Andrew,; Itami, Masatarō,
• TeilnehmendeR: Itami, Masatarō,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Notes on Romanization and Transcription
• Map 1: Japan in the mid-nineteenth century
• Map 2: Shikoku and Kochi area
• Map 3: South Hokkaido and Hakodate area
• Map 4: Clyde Valley and Central Glasgow
• Map 5: Sunderland
• 1. The Secret in the Casket
• 2. The Years of Rebellion
• 3. Mitsubishi Rising
• 4. A Japanese Student Abroad
• 5. A Glasgow Lass
• 6. Flowering Love
• 7. Evening Frost
• 8. Sunderland Spring
• 9. Chasing the Rainbow
• 10. Meiji Docklands
• 11. The Potato Baron
• 12. In Search of Jeanie
• Glossary
• Appendix 1: Ryokichi's family tree
• Appendix 2: Jeanie's family tree
• Appendix 3: Biographical notes
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.