In the gardens of the shogun’s palace at Osaka, the young Prince Nagato serves a boy ruler whose power is being seized by the regent Hieyas. Loyal generals, ritual suicides, a sea-god festival and a forbidden love for a lady of the imperial court carry the story through the civil strife of early seventeenth-century Japan.
A French Orientalist novel of Japan by Théophile Gautier’s daughter, a rare nineteenth-century attempt at Japanese historical fiction. Download the free EPUB.