I imagine you know a lot more about Etsuko than I do
Haha, I don't know about that. I know she died of cancer, according to Chiyono.
Chiyono's memoirs are interesting, but mostly made up of little anecdotes and stories. The first is from a year's stay in Japan with her mother when she was in her late teens (available on the Internet Archive) while the other is from after World War 2, and is mostly made up of saccharine stories about her time working with American soldiers after the war, with a little bit about other things in her family's life at the time.
They seemed to have occupied an interesting place post-war, possibly a privileged one, because of their connection with America. Chiyono is accorded respect by the American soldiers for her English-speaking, or for her relation to her mother. They obviously both felt a great love for both of the countries that had been a part of their lives, even as some considered them traitors. Chiyono married Eiichi Kiyooka, a professor and translator, who got in trouble during the war for continuing to use the American Hepburn romanisation. They spent time in America themselves after marrying, though also returned to Japan - I don't remember the circumstances off the top of my hear.
I don't know as much about Hanano's later life, although in looking her up, I did just discover a newspaper clipping about her visiting Cincinnati in 1962.
Maybe I really should reread A Daughter of the Samurai!
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Haha, I don't know about that. I know she died of cancer, according to Chiyono.
Chiyono's memoirs are interesting, but mostly made up of little anecdotes and stories. The first is from a year's stay in Japan with her mother when she was in her late teens (available on the Internet Archive) while the other is from after World War 2, and is mostly made up of saccharine stories about her time working with American soldiers after the war, with a little bit about other things in her family's life at the time.
They seemed to have occupied an interesting place post-war, possibly a privileged one, because of their connection with America. Chiyono is accorded respect by the American soldiers for her English-speaking, or for her relation to her mother. They obviously both felt a great love for both of the countries that had been a part of their lives, even as some considered them traitors. Chiyono married Eiichi Kiyooka, a professor and translator, who got in trouble during the war for continuing to use the American Hepburn romanisation. They spent time in America themselves after marrying, though also returned to Japan - I don't remember the circumstances off the top of my hear.
I don't know as much about Hanano's later life, although in looking her up, I did just discover a newspaper clipping about her visiting Cincinnati in 1962.
Maybe I really should reread A Daughter of the Samurai!