TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pagnamenta,Peter
AU  - Williams,Momoko
AU  - Pagnamenta,Peter
TI  - Falling blossom: a British officer's enduring love for a Japanese woman 
SN  - 1846050464 (pbk.)
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Century
KW  - Hart-Synnot, Arthur Henry Seton,
KW  - Suzuki, Masako,
KW  - Interracial dating
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Japan
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1912-1945
N1  - Published in the United States by Penguin as Sword and Blossom; Includes bibliographical references: p. [300]-313
N2  - This is the beautiful, true story of a tragic love affair. When Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative British army officer met Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl, whilst on a military posting to Japan, the pair fell deeply and hopelessly in love. Masa was more than a 'temporary wife' like most of the other officer's Japanese girlfriends. Arthur described her as 'the supreme woman in the world'. When he was recalled to England, then sent to Burma, and then to India, their relationship struggled on, in the face of opposition from her family, from the massive gap between their cultures, from the military and from the huge distances between them
ER  -