Madame Chrysantheme (Esprios Classics) : Translated by Laura Ensor

Madame Chrysantheme is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan.

It closely follows the journal he kept of his summer 1885 affair with Kiku (Chrysanthemum) nee Kane a few blocks north of Glover Garden in the Juzenji neighbourhood; modern day Juninmachi, whence she fled to hometown Takeda due to xenophobia. Originally written in French and published in 1887, Madame Chrysantheme was very successful in its day, running to 25 editions in the first five years of its publication with translations into several languages including English.