Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back (44 page)

234
  “I don’t believe Miss Thomas”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 85.

234
  “Feeling as I do”: “Questions to Specialists,”
Japan Weekly Mail
, July 22, 1893.

235
  “I am afraid it is a fault”: Alice Bacon to Ume Tsuda, October 19, 1892, TCA, II-3-4 (6).

235
  “I am sorry that you find the gap widen”: Ibid.

237
  “Of course I feel much anxiety”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, October 28, 1894, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

237
  “In July a committee”: Ibid.

238
  “They who never dressed themselves”: Sutematsu Oyama, “War Work of Japanese Ladies,”
Collier’s
, April 1, 1905.

238
  “I felt as if I wanted”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, October 28, 1894, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

238
  “the plucky little island empire”: “Noted Vassar Graduate,”
New-York Times
, December 2, 1894.

238
  “I tell you,” Alice wrote: Alice Bacon to Ume Tsuda, October 6, 1894, TCA, II-3-4 (10).

238
  “Now we are no longer ashamed”: Kenneth B. Pyle,
The Making of Modern Japan
(New York: D. C. Heath, 1996), 138.

239
  “Through Japan, China must soon”: “Noted Vassar Graduate,”
New-York Times
.

239
  “Intensely loyal to her country”: “A Remarkable Japanese
Woman,”
New-York Times
, April 19, 1896.

239
  “Whatever the war may have done”: Alice Bacon to Ume Tsuda, July 22, 1895, TCA, II-3-4 (12).

240
  “Those students who study”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 101.

240
  “But if he attempts to raise”: Utako Shimoda, “The Virtues of Japanese Womanhood,” in Naoichi Masaoka, ed.,
Japan to America: A Symposium of Papers by Political Leaders and Representative Citizens of Japan on Conditions in Japan and on the Relations between Japan and the United States
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914), 187–88.

241
  “I can not realize she is dead”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, August 9, 1894, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 335.

241
  “I feel quite at a loss”: Ume Tsuda to Abby Kirk and Emily Bull, August 31, 1894, in Tsuda,
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 371–74.

241
  the playful young teacher: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, October 20, 1885, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 224–26.

241
  a terror in the classroom: Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 117.

241
  “Don’t be discouraged”: Alice Bacon to Ume Tsuda, October 6, 1894, TCA, II-3-4 (10).

242
  “Because I am responsible”: Kuno,
Unexpected Destinations
, 182.

242
  “I am so sorry to hear”: Alice Bacon to Ume Tsuda, May 10, 1894, TCA, II-3-4 (8).

243
  “knowing more about the English language”: Roka Tokutomi,
Hototogisu (The Heart of Nami-San)
, trans. Isaac Goldberg (Boston: Stratford, 1918), 62.

243
  “Her first concern”: Ibid., 13.

243
  “Dressed in the European fashion”: Ibid., 15.

244
  Shige was distraught: Sumie Ikuta,
Uryu Shigeko: Mo hitori no joshi ryugakusei
[Uriu Shigeko: One more female foreign student] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2009), 196.

244
  “No wonder Shige says”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 25, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 354–55.

245
  “My husband grows fatter”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, August 5, 1899, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

14:  
THE WOMEN
’
S HOME SCHOOL OF ENGLISH

246
  “ripened into one of the happiest”: Anna C. Hartshorne, “The Years of Preparation: A Memory of Miss Tsuda,” in Ume Tsuda,
The Writings of Umeko Tsuda
[
Tsuda Umeko monjo
] (Kodaira, Japan: Tsuda College, 1984), 514.

247
  “With grateful enthusiasm”: Ibid., 515.

248
  “One trembles to think”: Ume Tsuda, “A Woman’s Plea,”
Far East
, January 20, 1898, 124.

248
  “Without culture, education”: Ume Tsuda, “The Future of Japanese Women,”
Far East
, January 20, 1897, 16.

248
  “such an acquisition”: Ibid., 17.

249
  “There have been one or two”:
Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 24, 1898, in Yoshiko Furuki, ed.,
The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda’s Correspondence to Her American Mother
(New York: Weatherhill, 1991), 339.

249
  “a remarkably handsome woman”: “Among Maine Women’s Clubs,”
Lewiston (ME) Saturday Journal
, January 1, 1898.

249
  “What do you think has happened?”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 10, 1898, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 339–40.

249
  “Thus from one nation to another”: Ume Tsuda, “Speech Given at the Denver Convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs,” June 24, 1898, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 484.

250
  “I have enjoyed meeting you”: Yoshiko Furuki,
The White Plum, a Biography of Ume Tsuda: Pioneer in the Higher Education of Japanese Women
(New York: Weatherhill, 1991), 92.

250
  “I have been thinking over”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 4, 1898, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 341.

251
  “It seems very strange”: Ume Tsuda, “Journal in London,” in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 276.

251
  “a most capable, powerful woman”: Ibid., 287.

251
  “I have been about like”: Ibid., 300–301.

251
  “I did so want to ask”: Ibid., 337.

252
  “He is a lovely man”: Ibid., 292–93.

252
  “I told him that I really wished”: Ibid., 295–96.

252
  “well enough for a year”: Ibid., 277.

252
  “lady of leisure”: Ibid., 276.

253
  “How strange, how very strange”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, July 9, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 347–48.

253
  Takamine had been a classmate: Akiko Kuno,
Unexpected Destinations: The Poignant Story of Japan’s First Vassar Graduate
, trans. Kirsten McIvor (New York: Kodansha International, 1993), 190.

254
  “It seems he wants just”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, January 7, 1899, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

254
  “for the other school is not”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, March 4, 1899, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

255
  “She really seems to be contemplating”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 16, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 346.

255
  “It will be a fine ending”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, August 3, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 349–50.

256
  “It was a great honor”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, August 11, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 350.

256
  “I told him it was too soon”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, August 28, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 351.

256
  her voice rasping: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, October 19, 1899, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 353.

256
  “I should dislike to have exaggerated”: Ume Tsuda to Mary Harris Morris, December 28, 1899, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 382–85.

257
  “How strange it seems”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 5, 1900, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 359–60.

257
  Women’s Higher Normal School in Tokyo: The Women’s Higher Normal School would later become Ochanomizu Women’s University, today one of two national women’s universities in Japan.

257
  “I had a letter from Alice Bacon”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 16, 1900, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 360.

258
  “No one would believe me”: Ume Tsuda to Abby Kirk and Emily Bull, August 6, 2000, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 374–78.

258
  “It has been a more difficult thing”: Ume Tsuda to Martha Carey Thomas, August 9, 2000, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 389–91.

258
  “Write me and keep me up”: Ume Tsuda to Abby Kirk and Emily Bull, August 6, 2000, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 374–78.

259
  “Women’s Home School of English”: Ibid.; Barbara Rose,
Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Education in Japan
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 137.

259
  and Utako Suzuki: Furuki,
White Plum
, 103.

259
  “the qualifications of the teacher”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 104.

260
  “Any criticism will mostly come”: Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 129.

260
  Alice typed up new sheets: Ume Tsuda, “Introductory,”
Alumnae Report of the Joshi-Eigaku-Juku
, June 1905, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 104.

261
  “while endeavoring”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 105.

261
  at the same level as boys: Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 130.

261
  “Try again!”: Furuki,
White Plum
, 123.

261
  
Little Lord Fauntleroy
: Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 131.

261
  “The English is excellent”: “The Bookshelf,”
Japan Weekly Mail
, May 3, 1902.

262
  “a great advantage”: Ume Tsuda, “Teaching in Japan,”
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
, August 1907, in
Writings of Umeko Tsuda
, 94.

262
  “The girls had some recitations”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 1, 1901, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 367–68.

262
  “we even went up to the cupola”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, October 28, 1901, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 376–77.

263
  “I am very proud of them”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, June 1, 1901, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 367–68.

263
  The candidates “were not boys”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 22, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 378–79.

263
  “It really was a great responsibility”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, February 3, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 379–80.

263
  “I am sorry it is so long”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 6, 1901, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 365.

263
  a letter addressed to “Ume Tsuda”: William Elliot Griffis to Ume Tsuda, December 18, 1920, envelope, William Elliot Griffis Collection, Box 160, Folder 2, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

264
  “The gentlemen treated us”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 22, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 380–81.

264
  The stories they told: “Yoko no yume” [A dream of travel to the West],
Yomiuri Shimbun
, March 22 to April 11, 1902.

264
  “and it was a grand spree”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, March 22, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 380–81.

265
  “The school is getting along”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, January 22, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 378–79.

266
  she would retire from teaching: Sumie Ikuta,
Uryu Shigeko: Mo hitori no joshi ryugakusei
[Uriu Shigeko: One more female foreign student] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2009), 203–4.

266
  “As for myself”: Sutematsu Oyama, “Stematz Yamakawa Oyama,”
Records of the Class of ’82: 1882–1902
, SYOP, Box 2, Folder 4, VSC.

267
  “I haven’t laughed so much”: Marian P. Whitney, “Stematz Yamakowa, Princess Oyama,”
Vassar Quarterly
, July 1919, 269.

268
  “I feel so strange”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, November 23, 1882, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 14–19.

268
  “None of us stayed”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, April 21, 1902, in Furuki,
Attic Letters
, 382.

15:  
ENDINGS

269
  “So you see, the girls”: Ume Tsuda to Adeline Lanman, September 27, 1904, in Yoshiko Furuki, ed.,
The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda’s Correspondence to Her American Mother
(New York: Weatherhill, 1991), 417–18.

270
  “Takashi, who used to give me”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, January 10, 1907, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

271
  “It was a great comfort”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, June 8, 1908, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.

271
  “Poor Stematz”: Shige Uriu to Alice Bacon, July 7, 1908, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 12, VSC.

271
  “slowly and carefully”: “Brilliant Features Mark the Vassar Class Day Exercises,”
Poughkeepsie (NY) Eagle
, June 9, 1909.

272
  “When Japan was born”: Barbara Rose,
Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Education in Japan
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 142.

272
  “a new generation of selfish women”: Ume Tsuda, “To the Members of the Doso-Kwai,”
Alumnae Report of the Joshi-Eigaku-Juku
, July 1908, in
The Writings of Umeko Tsuda
[
Tsuda Umeko monjo
] (Kodaira, Japan: Tsuda College, 1984), 119.

273
  “The real work”: Rose,
Tsuda Umeko
, 150.

273
  “I am sorry to say”: Sutematsu Oyama to Alice Bacon, March 12, 1912, SYOP, Box 1, Folder 5, VSC.