Windows for the Crown Prince (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
- First Published: 1952
- Time of Work: 1946–1950
- Setting: Japan, chiefly Tokyo
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Gray Vining, Crown Prince Akihito, Hirohito, General Douglas MacArthur, Tane Takehashi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Family or family life, Adolescence, Autobiography, Education or educators, Asia or Asians, Kings, queens, or royalty, Japan or Japanese people, Princes or princesses, Tutors or tutoring
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
Form and Content
In Windows for the Crown Prince: An American Woman’s Four Years as Private Tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan, using an almost diary-like format, Elizabeth Gray Vining shares the events of her assignment as tutor to Crown Prince Akihito. Told chronologically, for the most part, the thirty-seven chapters focus on especially significant events, such as Vining’s arrival and her first meeting with the royal family and with General Douglas MacArthur; accounts, at various stages, of her tutorial duties with the crown prince, his classmates at the peers...
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