Buy this book on-line Robson, Lucia St. Clair : TOKAIDO ROADCentury, 1991 ISBN 9780712646383
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 father’s 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 Cat’s career is temporar y; the powerful Lord Kira’s campaign against her family is continuing and s he must find Oishi, leader of the samurai of the Asano clan, weapons master , philosopher, and Cat’s 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 training—in 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 samurai—Tosa no Hanshiro, has been hired to trail her., VG+/VG+ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Robson, Lucia St. Clair : TOKAIDO ROAD. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, out-of-print books, first editions, out of print books and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |