(031105) Reischauer, Haru Matsukata. Samurai And Silk: A Japanese And American Heritage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 371 pages. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Top and front edges lightly foxed. DJ has three repaired, closed tears . The author writes about her two illustrious grandfathers. One, a provinicial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost singlehandedly developed the silk trade with America ISBN: 0674788001 (Statesmen, Japan, Businessmen, Matsukata Family, Arai Family)
