America's geisha ally : reimagining the Japanese enemy / Naoko Shibusawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shibusawa, Naoko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Relations--Japan.

United States.

Relations.

Japan.

Japan--Relations--United States.

Japan--Foreign public opinion, American.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Japan--Civilization--1945-.

Civilization.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Physical Description:

397 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Summary:

In a letter from 1845, the 14-year-old Emily Dickinson asked her friend Abiah Root if she had started collecting flowers and plants for a herbarium: "it would be such a treasure to you; 'most all the girls are making one." Emily's own album of more than 400 pressed flowers and plants, carefully preserved, has long been a treasure of Harvard's Houghton Library. This beautifully produced, slipcased volume now makes it available to all readers interested in the life and writings of Emily Dickinson. The care that Emily put into her herbarium, as Richard Sewall points out, goes far beyond what one might expect of a botany student her age: "Take Emily's herbarium far enough, and you have "her."" The close observation of nature was a lifelong passion, and Emily used her garden flowers as emblems in her poetry and her correspondence. Each page of the album is reproduced in full color at full size, accompanied by a transcription of Dickinson's handwritten labels. Introduced by a substantial literary and biographical essay, and including a complete botanical catalog and index, this volume will delight scholars, gardeners, and all readers of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Contents:

1 Women and Children First 13

2 "Like a Boy of Twelve" 54

3 Sunday at Hirohito's 96

4 A Transpacific Treason Trial 140

5 A Kamikaze Goes to College 176

6 Channeling Atomic Guilt 213

7 Hollywood's Japan 255

Epilogue: Rising Sun Redux 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-374) and index.

ISBN:

067402348X

9780674023 482

OCLC:

67922579

Publisher Number:

9780674023482