Stories In Floral Collection | (Illustrated): Includes, A Japanese Blossom, The Heart Of Hyacinth, The Love Of Azalea, And The Wooing Of Wistaria - 9781956101997

Onoto Watanna (August 21, 1875 - April 8, 1954) is the most dominate pseudonym of Winnifred Eaton, a Canadian author and screenwriter of Chinese-British ancestry. She was one of the first North American writers of Asian descent to publish fiction in English.ABOUT THIS BOOKContains the following four novels:A Japanese BlossomThe children sat in a little semi-circle about their grandmother, listening intently as she read to them the last letter from their father in America. Ever since they could remember, his business as a tea merchant had taken him away from Japan on long visits to the foreign countries. His latest absence had continued for three years now, and little Juji-born a short time after his departure-had never seen him. As the grandmother finished the letter, the children instinctively looked first of all at Juji, sitting there in placid indifference, stolidly sucking his thumb. Juji had ceased to be the baby of the Kurukawa family. Afar off in America a new, strange baby had been born, and had taken the place of Juji, just as its mother one year before had taken the place of Juji's mother, who was dead.The Heart of HyacinthTells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child of white parents who was raised from infancy in Japan by a Japanese foster mother and assumed to be Eurasian. A crisis occurs when, 18 years after her birth, her American father returns to Japan to reclaim her just as Hyacinth has become engaged to a Japanese aristocrat, and she forcefully asserts her Japanese ties only to find that her prospective father-in-law will not tolerate a white wife for his son.The Love of AzaleaThe story of a female Samurai descendant married to a missionary.The Wooing of WistariaFollows the life of a vicarious and bubbly young Japanese woman, Lady Wistaria.

• | Author: Onoto Watanna
• | Publisher: Cape Turnaround Productions
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 554 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1956101993
• | ISBN-13: 9781956101997