The Resource The White Plum : A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan, Yoshiko Furuki
The White Plum : A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan, Yoshiko Furuki
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- Summary
- At the age of six, Ume Tsuda (1864-1929), the daughter of a progressive samurai, was sent on a mission by the Japanese government with four other girls to the United States. Their noble task was to first educate themselves in modern ways and Western learning, and then return to bring that gift to their sisters in Japan. Ume was cared for in the United States by Charles and Adeline Lanman, and she grew up in Washington, D.C., studying at private schools and becoming a Christian.At seventeen she finally returned to her country of birth, determined to carry out her mission. Back in Japan she found a new government quite unprepared to make use of her skills, but even more troubling was her startling self-discovery: unable to speak, read or write her native language fluently, she was faced with a homeland in which she was a foreigner, customs she did not understand, and a family she did not know and with whom she could not fully communicate. With the brave resilience of her namesake, the white plum that blooms in the last harsh days of winter, Ume was undaunted. Thriving on challenge, she devoted the rest of her life to seeking a way to achieve the goal of making modern higher education available to Japanese women for the first time. After several attempts, and two periods of advanced study abroad at Bryn Mawr College and Oxford, she eventually founded her own English School for Women. Later named Tsuda College, it has remained one of the bastions of women's higher education in Japan to this day. In her later years, Tsuda was not only an honored and influential educator in her own land and a founder of the Japanese YWCA but a cultural ambassador who met and exchanged correspondence with leading figures of her day
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 5. Among Cherry Trees
- 6. Still Growing
- 7. Ground to Share
- 8. The Plum Orchard
- 9. "Storm Last Night"
- Epilogue: All Those Blossoms A Letter To Miss Tsuda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Seedling
- 2. A Sapling On Foreign Soil
- 3. A Transplanted Tree
- 4. A Different Species
- Isbn
- 9780824853402
- Label
- The White Plum : A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan
- Title
- The White Plum
- Title remainder
- A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan
- Statement of responsibility
- Yoshiko Furuki
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- EDUCATION / Essays
- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions
- EDUCATION / Reference
- Electronic books
- History
- Japan
- Tsuda, Umeko, 1864-1929
- Tsuda, Umeko, 1864-1929
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Tsudajuku Daigaku -- History
- Women -- Education (Higher)
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- Japan -- History
- Women educators
- Women educators -- Japan -- Biography
- Tsudajuku Daigaku
- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- At the age of six, Ume Tsuda (1864-1929), the daughter of a progressive samurai, was sent on a mission by the Japanese government with four other girls to the United States. Their noble task was to first educate themselves in modern ways and Western learning, and then return to bring that gift to their sisters in Japan. Ume was cared for in the United States by Charles and Adeline Lanman, and she grew up in Washington, D.C., studying at private schools and becoming a Christian.At seventeen she finally returned to her country of birth, determined to carry out her mission. Back in Japan she found a new government quite unprepared to make use of her skills, but even more troubling was her startling self-discovery: unable to speak, read or write her native language fluently, she was faced with a homeland in which she was a foreigner, customs she did not understand, and a family she did not know and with whom she could not fully communicate. With the brave resilience of her namesake, the white plum that blooms in the last harsh days of winter, Ume was undaunted. Thriving on challenge, she devoted the rest of her life to seeking a way to achieve the goal of making modern higher education available to Japanese women for the first time. After several attempts, and two periods of advanced study abroad at Bryn Mawr College and Oxford, she eventually founded her own English School for Women. Later named Tsuda College, it has remained one of the bastions of women's higher education in Japan to this day. In her later years, Tsuda was not only an honored and influential educator in her own land and a founder of the Japanese YWCA but a cultural ambassador who met and exchanged correspondence with leading figures of her day
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- Furuki, Yoshiko
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- Tsuda, Umeko
- Tsudajuku Daigaku
- Tsuda, Umeko
- Tsudajuku Daigaku
- Women
- Women educators
- Women
- Women educators
- Japan
- EDUCATION / Essays
- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions
- EDUCATION / Reference
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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- 5. Among Cherry Trees
- 6. Still Growing
- 7. Ground to Share
- 8. The Plum Orchard
- 9. "Storm Last Night"
- Epilogue: All Those Blossoms A Letter To Miss Tsuda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Seedling
- 2. A Sapling On Foreign Soil
- 3. A Transplanted Tree
- 4. A Different Species
- Control code
- on1013962526
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824853402
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- 10.21313/9780824853402
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- (OCoLC)1013962526
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- The White Plum : A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan, Yoshiko Furuki
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- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5. Among Cherry Trees
- 6. Still Growing
- 7. Ground to Share
- 8. The Plum Orchard
- 9. "Storm Last Night"
- Epilogue: All Those Blossoms A Letter To Miss Tsuda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Seedling
- 2. A Sapling On Foreign Soil
- 3. A Transplanted Tree
- 4. A Different Species
- Control code
- on1013962526
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824853402
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824853402
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt225sftf
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013962526
Subject
- EDUCATION / Essays
- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions
- EDUCATION / Reference
- Electronic books
- History
- Japan
- Tsuda, Umeko, 1864-1929
- Tsuda, Umeko, 1864-1929
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Tsudajuku Daigaku -- History
- Women -- Education (Higher)
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- Japan -- History
- Women educators
- Women educators -- Japan -- Biography
- Tsudajuku Daigaku
- Biography
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