The shogun's queen
Downer, Lesley2017
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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.
Main title:
The shogun's queen / Lesley Downer.
Author:
Downer, Lesley, author
Imprint:
London : Corgi Books, 2017.
Collation:
xx, 521 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Shogun quartet ; book one.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2016.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780552163491 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92H
LC class:
PR6104
Local class:
FT PbkFIC
Language:
English
BRN:
1928264