Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back (42 page)

168
  Shige in maroon silk: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 23, 1882, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 14–19; Sutematsu Yamakawa to Jessie Wheeler, December 28, 1882, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 7, VSC.

168
  “which Mr. Uriu had presented”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 1882 in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 22–23.

169
  “A fine distinguished soldier-like man”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 27, 1882 in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 19–20.

170
  “As we could not refuse”: Ibid.

170
  “All these great men”: Ibid.

170
  “I am not willing”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, December 11, 1882, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

170
  “My Father”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 29, 1882, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 21.

171
  “Sutematsu and I inwardly lament”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 23, 1882, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 26–28.

171
  “They seem to think”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 16, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 33–34.

171
  “young men who have been abroad”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 8, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

172
  “perfectly at home”: Ibid.

172
  “[She] has presented me”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Jessie Wheeler, December 28, 1882, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 7, VSC.

172
  “Oh, Alice, I don’t know”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 16, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

173
  a “private theatrical”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 18, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

173
  “The party will be a large affair”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 24, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

173
  “Can you imagine me as Portia?”: Ibid.

173
  “the best amateur performer”: Ibid.

173
  “were relieved from the formalities”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline
Lanman, January 29, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 36–37.

174
  “So we met very often”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, February 20, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

174
  “What a trouble it is to live!”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 28, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

175
  “I did have serious thoughts”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, February 20, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

175
  “crazy boy”: Ibid.

175
  “It is just the place for me”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, February 3, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

176
  “Oh Alice, my views”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, February 20, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

176
  “I wonder if you think”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, March 18, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

176
  “I have so much to write”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 27, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 52–57.

178
  Oyama’s dapper cousin: Kuno,
Unexpected Destinations
, 143.

179
  “What must be done”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, April 5, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

179
  “By the way do you remember”: Ibid.

180
  “I wonder what he thought”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 27, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 52–57.

179
  “Mr. Oyama is rich”: Ibid.

180
  “Although they all love me”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, July 2, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

182
  a diamond ring: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 11, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 58–60.

182
  “all together too magnificent”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, July 2, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

182
  “so matter-of-fact”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 11, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 103–6.

182
  
Le Ministre de la Guerre
: Wedding announcement, SYOP, Box 2, Folder 7, VSC.

182
  “acting hostess to all the ladies”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 11, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 103–6.

182
  “I must get used to the idea”: Ibid.

11:  
GETTING ALONG ALONE

183
  “Please don’t write marriage”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 6, 1883, in Yoshiko Furuki, ed.,
The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda’s Correspondence to Her American Mother
(New York: Weatherhill, 1991), 74–75.

183
  “A few years ago”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 18, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 50–51.

185
  “It is said that Grant”: Clara Whitney,
Clara’s Diary: An American Girl in Meiji Japan
(New York: Kodansha International, 1979), 256-57.

185
  Geisha danced for him: Ibid., 260.

185
  The emperor himself stood: Julia Meech-Pekarik,
The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization
(New York: Weatherhill, 1986), 107.

185
  “The spirit of self-help”: Samuel Smiles,
Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), 15.

186
  “building up their characters”: “Preamble to the Fundamental Code of Education” (1872), in William Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, eds.,
Sources of the Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000: Part Two, 1868–2000
, abridged (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 95.

186
  “Help from without”: Smiles,
Self-help
, 15.

186
  “In recent days, people”: Nagazane Motoda, “Great Principles of Education” (1879), in De Bary, Gluck, and Tiedemann,
Sources of the Japanese Tradition
, 97.

187
  “There must be a certain kind”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, September 21, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 95–96.

187
  “In the normal school”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, October 13, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 97–100.

188
  “If I thought that by my dying”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, May 23, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 69–70.

188
  “devoured with fleas”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 27, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 62–67.

188
  Sen Tsuda, Ume’s father: Charles Lanman,
Japan; Its Leading Men
(Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886), 34–39.

188
  Tsuda had fathered a child: Yoshiko Furuki,
The White Plum, a Biography of Ume Tsuda: Pioneer in the Higher Education of Japanese Women
(New York: Weatherhill, 1991), 107.

189
  “Mrs. Lanman she misses you”: Shige Uriu to Adeline Lanman, 1883, TCA, IX-C-7.

189
  “I think music would not do much”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 1, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 38.

189
  “I think it very unwise”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, May 26, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 71–73.

189
  Sutematsu was trying: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, April 12, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

189
  “Please don’t write anything”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, May 26, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 71–73.

189
  “They are entirely too stuck up”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 27, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 62–67.

190
  “which only poorer classes attend”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 17, 1882, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 24–26.

190
  Kaigan Jogakko: Barbara Rose,
Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Education in Japan
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 61.

190
  “Now are you not surprised”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, May 25, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 70–71.

190
  “I am so busy”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 6, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 74–75.

190
  “Do not suppose, Mrs. Lanman”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 18, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 77–79.

191
  “I think I am young yet”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, July 15, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 83.

191
  “I want to have my school”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 6, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 74–75.

191
  “But what a position”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 2, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 101–2.

191
  “I don’t hide it”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, October 31, 1883, in Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 62.

191
  “very curious and very beautiful”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 5, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 102–3.

192
  “lovely in blue crepe”: Ibid.

192
  “Who am I?”: Ume Tsuda, “Personal Recollections of Prince Ito,” in
The Writings of Umeko Tsuda
[
Tsuda Umeko monjo
] (Kodaira, Japan: Tsuda College, 1984), 489–90.

192
  “He is such a great man now”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 5, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 102–3.

192
  “Will you really believe it”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 4, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 108–10.

192
  “It seems he is very anxious”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 20, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 106–8.

193
  “young peaches”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 61.

193
  “Oh, I am so grateful”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 4, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 108–10.

193
  “fond of the pleasures”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 18, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 113–16.

193
  “If you have Mr. Ito”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 4, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 108–10.

193
  “she had so much petting”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, January 18, 1883, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

193
  “On the whole, I do like”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 4, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 108–10.

194
  “[Sutematsu] said it was not formidable”: Ibid.

194
  “He also wishes me to go out”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman,
December 18, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 113–16.

194
  “we three girls”: Ibid.

194
  “to think I might live”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 9, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 110–13.

195
  “I want to talk to you”: Ibid.

195
  “grand evening entertainment”: Ibid.

195
  “a second-class casino”: Meech-Pekarik,
World of the Meiji Print
, 148.

195
  “a gymnastic feat”: John Dwight, “The Marchioness Oyama,”
Twentieth Century Home
, 1904.

196
  three star-shaped diamond pins: Akiko Kuno,
Unexpected Destinations: The Poignant Story of Japan’s First Vassar Graduate
, trans. Kirsten McIvor (New York: Kodansha International, 1993), 154–55.

196
  “a perfect hostess”: Dwight, “Marchioness Oyama.”

196
  “I enjoyed myself so much”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 18, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 113–16.

196
  “I have
two
rooms”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 29, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 139–40.

196
  “Of course, temporarily”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, December 21, 1883, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 116–17.

197
  “an awful bother”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 4, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 121–24.

197
  “very serious talks”: Ibid.

197
  “very hard and rather slow”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 13, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 125–28.

197
  “I would give a great deal”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 27, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 131–32.

197
  “You see how well-filled”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 27, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 146–47.

197
  “Is Labor a Blessing”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 29, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 139–40.

198
  “Is it not lovely”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 26, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 135–37.

198
  Her visits to court: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 4, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 121–24.

198
  “If I told you all I know”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, March 1884, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

198
  “learned ladies”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 26, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 135–37.

199
  “Do you know that
the
dream”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, March 1884, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

199
  “What a splendid thing”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 26, 1884, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 135–37.

199
  “We are to set up a school”: Sutematsu Yamakawa to Alice Bacon, March 1884, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.