Kawada Ryokichi - Jeanie Eadie's Samurai  (English, Hardcover, Cobbing Andrew)

Through a detailed reconstruction of Kawada's life and career, this book provides a remarkable case study of a single life impacting on developments in the Meiji period. The biography also takes us through different epochs. Not least, it contains the rare account of an East-West love story which unfolds through eighty-nine letters, all of which are transcribed and republished here.