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Etsuko Sugimoto (杉本 鉞子,Sugimoto Etsuko, 1874 – June 20, 1950), also known asEtsu Inagaki Sugimoto, was a Japanese Americanautobiographer andnovelist.^[1][2]

She was born inNagaoka inEchigo Province (which means "Behind the Mountains")^[3] in Japan, now part ofNiigata Prefecture. Her father had once been a high-rankingsamurai official inNagaoka, but with the breakdown of thefeudal system shortly before her birth, the economic situation of her family took a turn for the worse.

Although originally destined to be a priestess, she became engaged, through anarranged marriage, to a Japanese merchant living inCincinnati,Ohio. Etsu attended aMethodist school inTokyo in preparation for her life in the U.S., and became a Christian.

In 1898, she journeyed to the US, where she married her fiancé and became mother of two daughters. After her husband's death, she returned to Japan, but later returned to the U.S. for her daughters to complete their education.

Later, she lived inNew York City, where she turned to literature and taught Japanese language, culture and history atColumbia University. She also wrote for newspapers and magazines. She died in 1950.

• A Daughter of the Samurai (1925)
• With Taro and Hana in Japan (in cooperation with Nancy Virginia Austen 1926-09-23)
• A Daughter of the Narikin (1932)
• In memoriam: Florence Mills Wilson (1933)
• A Daughter of the Nohfu (1935)
• Grandmother O Kyo (1940)
• But the Ships Are Sailing (1959, by Etsu's daughter Chiyono Sugimoto Kiyooka; the work contains biographical details of the last years of Etsu Sugimoto's life)

• Works by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto in eBook form atStandard Ebooks

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