The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda : Pioneer in the Higher Education of Japanese Women

Tsuda was sent from Japan to America at the age of six by the Japanese government to receive an American education and bring Western culture back to Japan. Furuki (Tsuda College) chronicles Tsuda's life in America, her return to an unfamiliar Japan, her studies at Bryn Mawr College and Oxford University, and the founding of her own English School for Women (later named Tsuda College) in Japan. Tsuda was an influential educator and cultural ambassador who founded the Japanese YWCA and corresponded with leading figures of her day, including Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Dickens, Helen Keller, and Florence Nightingale. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.