Daniele Pecorini

March 8, 2020

Born:

October 16, 1871

Died: December 12, 1936

Married: Margaret Bucknell

Count Daniele Pecorini married Margaret Bucknell on November 22, 1906, apparently in Italy. He arrived in the U.S. in 1912.

He lived in Japan and Korea at the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), and wrote a semi-fictional account of his experiences in the two countries, Japanese Maple.

 

External links:

• "[count's tall tales and true from a legendary past]," Korea Times, March 8, 2020
• "Daniele Pecorini's Japanese Maple," in Searching for Japan, Michele Montserrati, [38-53], Liverpool University Press, 2020