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Title: Appears Accurate but Detached
Review: While reading this I never felt Ume Tsuda leave the page and come to life. The book seems to have accurately researched the original letters from which most of this biography is sourced but then it is written with a detached perspective. Ume Tsuda should have written her own biography or had a close friend write it during her lifetime because this is so dry and antiseptic. Perhaps that is what you must get when the sources have all passed away and are not available for questioning.
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