64 pages • 2 hours read
Gail TsukiyamaThe Samurai's Garden
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Autumn: September 15, 1937-Autumn: September 29, 1937
Autumn: October 5, 1937-Autumn: October 29, 1937
Autumn: October 30, 1937-Autumn: November 30, 1937
Autumn: December 1, 1937-Winter: December 7, 1937
Winter: December 21, 1937-Winter: February 4, 1938
Winter: February 5, 1938- Winter: March 14, 1938
Spring: March 28, 1938-Spring: May 30, 1938
Summer: June 6, 1938-Summer: July 5, 1938
Summer: July 9, 1938-Summer: August 16, 1938
Summer: August 17, 1938-Autumn: September 23, 1938
Autumn: September 28, 1938-Autumn: October 19
Autumn: October 20, 1938-Autumn: October 26, 1938
Autumn: October 27, 1938-Autumn: October 29, 1938
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Autumn: October 20, 1938-Autumn: October 26, 1938Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Autumn: October 20, 1938 Summary
Stephen marvels at the enormity, sights, and sounds of Tokyo. He and his father stay in a hotel near the Ginza, a flamboyant commercial street. The Japanese military is omnipresent. Stephen walks to the Imperial Palace, the home of the emperor for whom so many are willing to fight and die.
The men have dinner at a restaurant famous for its marinated eel. During the meal, Stephen’s father speaks Japanese: the other patrons, local, are discussing the war, and Chinese would turn heads. Ba-Ba suggests that Stephen return to Hong Kong before Christmas, and Stephen asks if it is safe. “’For now it is,’” answers Baba, “this time in Chinese” (201).
Autumn: October 22, 1938 Summary
While Stephen and his father are at lunch, they learn that Canton has fallen the day before. Stephen imagines the people there, exhausted by the constant bombing, surprised by the Japanese army landing in Bias Bay. The Japanese in the restaurant cheer, and Ba-Ba says that it is time to go. On the way to the train station, Stephen feels that he is being watched.
