num_pages: 424
description: Samurai and Silk is a rare a book of penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to present day economic titans. Only Haru Reischauer could have written this extraordinary family account, beginning with her two illustrious one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America. Their remarkable stories, and those of their notable descendants, demonstrate the unbounded vision and determination that explain so much about Japan's legendary success.
language: English
title: Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage
titlecomplete: Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage
genres: Biography, Japan, Nonfiction, Memoir, Asian Literature, History
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press