Born in Edo, daughter of the shogunate retainer Tsuda Sen.
She went to America with the Iwakura Mission as the youngest of the girl students.
After over ten years in America she came home, struggling because she had almost forgotten Japanese.
She taught English at the Peeresses' School.
She returned to America to study biology and more at Bryn Mawr College.
Back home, she became convinced that Japanese women needed higher education.
She founded the Joshi Eigaku Juku (later Tsuda University) to help women become independent.
She died in Kamakura.
Tanabe SakurōMori ŌgaiNitobe InazōOkakura Kakuzō (Tenshin)Futabatei ShimeiKawakami OtojirōKuroda SeikiNatsume Sōseki
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
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