Nanto Ni Kagayaku Jou Miwa Hide Koku No Nai Onna No Ichidaiki

[Machine Translation] Born in Hakodate in the Meiji era (1868-1912), the daughter of a former Matsumae clan official, Hide Miwa married Nikolai Grave, an aristocrat of Imperial Russia, and was a Japanese woman who opened a plantation in the Dutch East Indies. Described by a newspaper of the time as "the shining queen of the South Island," Hide Miwa survived the stormy waves of modern history, including Japan's invasion of the Netherlands and India, the defeat of the war, and the rise of Indonesian independence and nationalism. Japan, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United States. He crossed many borders with ease and finally settled down in Indonesia. We trace his brilliant footsteps.

元松前藩士の娘として明治に函館で生まれ、帝政ロシアの貴族ニコライ・グラーヴェと結婚し、オランダ領東インドで農園を切り開いた一人の日本女性。当時の新聞に「南島に輝く女王」と称された三輪ヒデは、日本の蘭印侵略、敗戦、インドネシアの独立とナショナリズムの高まりなど、近現代史の荒波に揉まれながらも、逞しく生き抜いた。日本、インドネシア、オランダ、アメリカ―。いくつもの国境を軽々と越え、最後にインドネシアに骨をうずめたヒデ。その華麗なる足跡をたどる。