Betty B
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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She is also a child of the West in training in culture, in the intellectual justice which enables her to discern the greatnesses and smile indulgently at the littlenesses of both.
Her father, Baron Sabaro Ozaki, the descendant of a Kyoto Samurai family, a member of the House of Peers, and a privy counselor, was one of the first Japanese who went to England to study its language and institutions.
While there he made the acquaintance of Miss Bathia Catherine Morrison, and shortly afterwards she became his wife.
This lady was the daughter of William Morrison Esquire.
a profound scholar and linguist, who would have been more famous had not his attainments, great as they were, been overshadowed by those of his brother, the Reverend Alexander Morrison, whose translations of the works of German philosophers and historians placed much valuable material at the disposal of English readers.
William Morrison's name, however, was known and loved in Japan many years before his little granddaughter Ye, the illustrious flower petal, was born.
For he was the instructor of most of the Japanese great men who went to England to learn the ways and speech of modern enlightenment.
Prince Mori, Marquis Innoye, Baron Suyematsu, and many others who afterwards rose to eminence were among his pupils, and when Baron Ozaki became his son-in-law, it would have been natural to conclude that Miss Morrison was fairly familiar already with many sides of the complex Japanese character.
But the union was not a happy one, and when several years later I made her acquaintance, I thought I could divine the reason.
She was a charming and intelligent woman, but she was English to the backbone, and it was impossible for her to appreciate or sympathize with anything that was not British, and Saboro Ozaki was as fundamentally Japanese.
Five years after their marriage they separated by mutual consent.
Three little girls, of whom Ye Theodora was the second, remained in England with their mother, and received a very thorough English education.
Mr Morrison took great interest in Oye, and brought her many books, which she devoured greedily, having inherited all his love of literature and learning.
I have often heard her say that whatever ability she possesses in that direction is due to her English grandfather.
She was just sixteen when Baron Ozaki insisted upon her coming out to live with him in Japan, and she gladly complied with his wishes.
On meeting her after their long separation he was delighted with her charming grace, and pleasantly surprised to find that in appearance she was quite a Japanese maiden.
Small and slender, with dark eyes, pale complexion, and a mass of glossy black hair.
Accustomed to rule as an autocrat over his household, he decreed that henceforth she was to be only Japanese.
She was quite willing to please him in this, so far as she could.
The pretty, picturesque ways of her new home appealed to her artistic instincts.
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