The author tells of her four years as a tutor to the young crown prince Akihito.

Windows for the Crown Prince

Biographies & Memoirs

VINING, Elizabeth Gray

Community & Culture

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

Flora Macdonald: Her Life in the Highlands and America

Geoffrey Bles

A fascinating inside account of the formative years of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan, written by his trusted Amer. tutor, the late Elizabeth Gray Vining. During the U.S. Occupation of Japan after WW2, the director of the U.S. educ. advisory mission to Japan recommended Mrs. Vining to 'open windows onto a wider world for the Crown Prince'. Mrs. Vining was born into an old Quaker family in Phila. in 1902. In 1946, Japanese Emperor Hirohito selected Mrs. Vining to be a tutor for the Crown Prince, the future Emperor Akihito, a position she held for 4 years. She was eventually to be a tutor to most of the Imperial Family, including Empress Nagako. After returning to the U.S., Mrs. Vining maintained a close, lifelong relationship with the family. Ill.

Windows for the Crown Prince: Akihito of Japan

Tuttle Pub

Adam of the Road

The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.

GRAY, Elizabeth Janet

Teen & Young Adult

San Val

Being seventy: The measure of a year (Large Print)

G.K. Hall

The World in Tune

Pendle Hill

Pendle Hill Pubns

Friend of Life: A Biography of Rufus M. Jones

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Windows For The Crown Prince

History

Asia

Legare Street Press

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