Tokaido Road

A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper,no i nscriptions or underlining, this is not a 'BOMC' ex-library book; This is an account of Japan's most famous revenge story set in 1702. So lonely am I My soul is a floating weed Severed at the roots This is how Lady Asano has felt since the forced suicide of her father. Adr ift in a dangerous world, she vows to avenge her fathers death and restore his name to honor. To do so, she will have to travel the Tokaido Road. As the novel opens, Lady Asano has transformed herself into Cat, a high-ran king courtesan, to support her widowed mother. Yet Cats career is temporar y; the powerful Lord Kiras campaign against her family is continuing and s he must find Oishi, leader of the samurai of the Asano clan, weapons master , philosopher, and Cats teacher. Cat believes he is three hundred miles to the southwest in the imperial city of Kyoto. Disguising her loveliness in the humble garments of a traveling priest, Cat begins her quest. All she has is her samurai trainingin Haiku and Tanka poetry, in the use of the deadly six-foot weapon, the naginata, and in Japanese Zen thought. And she will need them all, for a ronin, a lordless samuraiTosa no Hanshiro, has been hired to trail her.

Product Info

ISBN: 0712646388

ISBN-13: 9780712646383

Publisher: Century

Year: 1991

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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