This week: the beginning of a two parter on Japan’s first ever female exchange students.
Listen to the episode here.
You can check out Astra Nullius here.
Sources
Nimura, Janice. Daughters of the Samurai.
Furuki, Yoshiko. The White Plum, a Biography of Tsuda Ume.
Tsuda, Umeko and Yoshiko Furuki. The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda’s Correspondence to her American Mother.
Some excellent biographical sketches of Ume, Shige and Sutematsu are available here.
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