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The Courtesan and the Samurai

2010-04-13 Fiction
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Release : 2010-04-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Courtesan and the Samurai by : Lesley Downer

Download or read book The Courtesan and the Samurai written by Lesley Downer. This book was released on 2010-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ... Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters.There she is forced to become a courtesan. Yozo, brave, loyal and a brilliant swordsman, is pledged to the embattled shogun. He sails to the frozen north to join his rebel comrades for a desperate last stand. Defeated, he makes his way south to the only place where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara. There in the Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and jesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan. But each has a secret so terrible that once revealed it will threaten their very lives ...

Yoshiwara

1993-03-01 History
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Release : 1993-03-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Yoshiwara by : Cecilia Segawa Seigle

Download or read book Yoshiwara written by Cecilia Segawa Seigle. This book was released on 1993-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, Yoshiwara arts, th

The Courtesan and the Samurai

2011
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Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis The Courtesan and the Samurai by : Lesley Downer

Download or read book The Courtesan and the Samurai written by Lesley Downer. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shogun's Queen

2017-07-27 Fiction
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Release : 2017-07-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 491/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Shogun's Queen by : Lesley Downer

Download or read book The Shogun's Queen written by Lesley Downer. This book was released on 2017-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu has like all the clan's women been encouraged to be bold, taught to wield the halberd, and to ride a horse. But when she is just seventeen, four black ships appear. Bristling with cannon and manned by strangers who to the Japanese eyes are barbarians, their appearance threatens Japan's very existence. And turns Okatsu's world upside down. Chosen by her feudal lord, she has been given a very special role to play. Given a new name Princess Atsu and a new destiny, she is the only one who can save the realm. Her journey takes her to Edo Castle, a place so secret that it cannot be marked on any map. There, sequestered in the Women's Palace home to three thousand women, and where only one man may enter: the shogun she seems doomed to live out her days.

The Blade of the Courtesans

2022-09-27 Fiction
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Release : 2022-09-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Blade of the Courtesans by : Keiichiro Ryu

Download or read book The Blade of the Courtesans written by Keiichiro Ryu. This book was released on 2022-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Naoki Prize-nominated historical thriller marked the auspicious debut of late-blooming author Keichiro Ryu, who in five years made a name for himself as a master of period novels. In The Blade of the Courtesans, a young samurai by the name of Seichiro Matsunaga, trained in swordfighting by non other than the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto, finds himself in Yoshiwara (the pleasure quarters of old Tokyo), per Miyamoto's dying wishes. In Yoshiwara, Seichiro finds himself defending its denizens against what may be spies from the Yagyu Clan, including one young woman named Oshabu, whose story runs deeper than still water suggests. The Blade of the Courtesans is at once a quiet ode to human liberties in the face of political warfare and edge-fo-your-seat swordfighitng, a Japanese counterpart to the romantic adventures of the medieval knights whose chivalry is rivaled only by their prowess at battle.

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