Front matter
Reading edition
Drawn by Genjiro Yeto The Guest of Honor
The American Diary
of a Japanese Girl
By Miss Morning Glory
Illustrated in colour and
in black-and-white
BY
Genjiro Yeto
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NEW YORK
Frederick A. Stokes Company
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1901, by
Frank Leslie Publishing House.
Copyright, 1902, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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All rights reserved.
Published in September, 1902.
To Her Majesty
HARUKO
Empress of Japan
January, 1902
Ever since my childhood, thy sovereign beauty has been all to me in benevolence and inspiration.
How often I watched thy august presence in happy amazement when thou didst pass along our Tokio streets! What a sad sensation I had all through me when thou wert just out of sight! If thou only knewest, I prayed, that I was one of thy daughters! I set it in my mind, a long time ago, that anything I did should be offered to our mother. How I wish I could say my own mother! Mother art thou, heavenly lady!
I am now going to publish my simple diary of my American journey.
And I humbly dedicate it unto thee, our beloved Empress, craving that thou wilt condescend to acknowledge that one of thy daughters had some charming hours even in a foreign land.
Morning Glory