![]() ISBN: 978-1-4299-3599-9 CHAPTER 1 BEWARE THE STOPPING MIND Next to Cat's room in the House of the Perfumed Lotus a game of Naked Islanders was in riotous progress. Clair Robson Tom Doherty Associates Copyright 1991 Lucia St. And she will need them all, for a ronin, a lordless samurai-Tosa no Hanshiro, has been hired to trail her. The Tokaido Road A Novel of Feudal Japan By Lucia St. ![]() All she has is her samurai training-in Haiku and Tanka poetry, in the use of the deadly six-foot weapon, the naginata, and in Japanese Zen thought. The Tokaido Road is a break for Lucia St Clair Robson from her adventures in the American Revolution, and the American tragedy of the Trail of Tears. Cat believes he is three hundred miles to the southwest in the imperial city of Kyoto.ĭisguising her loveliness in the humble garments of a traveling priest, Cat begins her quest. Yet Cat’s career is temporary the powerful Lord Kira’s campaign against her family is continuing and she must find Oishi, leader of the samurai of the Asano clan, weapons master, philosopher, and Cat’s teacher. To do so, she will have to travel the Tokaido Road.Īs the novel opens, Lady Asano has transformed herself into Cat, a high-ranking courtesan, to support her widowed mother. ![]() Adrift in a dangerous world, she vows to avenge her father’s death and restore his name to honor. This is how Lady Asano has felt since the forced suicide of her father. An account of Japan’s most famous revenge story set in 1702. ![]()
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