A Daughter of the SamuraiHer life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward looking freedoms of the West. Janice P. Nimura, from the foreword. This is the story of one woman's remarkable life successfully navigating two very different culturesthe first memoir of an Asian American woman. Beautifully told, this immigrant's account of an unforgettable journey is the