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EVOCATIVE, EXCITING, AND TENDER, THESE CHARMING TALES OPEN A WINDOW ONTO LIFE IN JAPAN AS IT WAS FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO. This delightful collection of eight stories evokes life in early seventeenth-century Japan, a time when peace finally reigns after centuries of civil war. Tokugawa... read more

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The young guard had been keeping an eye on the family ever since it first appeared in the square beyond the castle's outer gate.

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  1. fiction
  2. japanese literature
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