The aim of this paper is twofold : to depict why an American woman, the late Dr. Esther Lowell Hibbard, the first president of Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, decided to be a missionary to Japan, and to explore how she settled into life in Kyoto during her first year, from September 1929 to August 1930. Although her autobiography and other related commemorative books have been published, Dr. Hibbard's true character has not yet heen captured. Based on personal letters addressed to her family, which have been kept at the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society, with other original references, I would like to look at her from a different perspective, focusing on her life as a woman missionary. This paper is a beginning step in my Hibbard research, which will be continued to include her whole life.
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