American samurai : Captain L.L. Janes and Japan / F.G. Notehelfer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-368) and index.

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD IN THE OHIO HILLS -- CHAPTER II. LIFE AT WEST POINT -- CHAPTER III. WAR, LOVE, AND CONVERSION -- CHAPTER IV. OREGON AND CALIFORNIA -- CHAPTER V. INVITATION TO JAPAN -- CHAPTER VI. YOKOHAMA, EDO, AND KUMAMOTO -- CHAPTER VII. THE KUMAMOTO SCHOOL FOR WESTERN LEARNING -- CHAPTER VIII. YANKEE INGENUITY AND INITIATIVE -- CHAPTER IX. CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER X. THE YEARS OF CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER XI. JAPAN AGAIN: KYOTO AND THE D0SHISHA LECTURES -- CHAPTER XII. THE FINAL YEARS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter.

The book reveals how a man on the way to being a misfit in the United States became the heroic American samurai." It discusses Janes as one of the few Westerners allowed to live in the interior and as the "father" of the Kumamoto Band, which became the dominant wing of Japanese Protestantism and a significant modernizing force. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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