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Hatsue’s mother. She was sent to the U.S. to marry Hisao Imada, who is much poorer than he’d led her to believe. Fujiko has had a difficult life, but she’s worked hard to get where she is, and she has always kept her suffering to herself. She is weary of the white islanders and tries to teach her children about the inherent difference between the Japanese and the hakujin (white people). She is critical of Hatsue’s confidence in her own wants, needs, and identity. She advises her daughter that it is best not to express the fleeting feelings of the heart, and that it is preferable to dwell and suffer in silence.
Fujiko Imada Quotes in Snow Falling on Cedars
The Snow Falling on Cedars quotes below are all either spoken by Fujiko Imada or refer to Fujiko Imada. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
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“That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for the separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life—you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese.”
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She was of this place and she was not of this place, and though she might desire to be an American it was clear, as her mother said, that she had the face of America’s enemy and would always have such a face.
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Fujiko Imada Quotes in Snow Falling on Cedars
The Snow Falling on Cedars quotes below are all either spoken by Fujiko Imada or refer to Fujiko Imada. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 14
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“That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for the separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life—you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese.”
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She was of this place and she was not of this place, and though she might desire to be an American it was clear, as her mother said, that she had the face of America’s enemy and would always have such a face.
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