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The second installment in Furutani's samurai trilogy (following the Anthony Award-winning Death at the Crossroads) has a startlingly modern sensibility. As ronin Matsuyama Kaze follows the Tokaido Road in search of his beloved Lady's kidnapped nine-year-old daughter, he saves the merchant Hishigawa from a gang of bandits. The coarse but enigmatic merchant insists on repaying Kaze with a new sword and invites him to his home in Kamakura, where the merchant lives with Yuchan, his cherished young wife. But something is rotten in Hishigawa's sumptuous villa, and as Kaze acquaints himself with members of the staff, including the chief bodyguard, Enomoto, and the suspiciously powerful female "head of household," Ando, he gradually discovers the depths of the merchant's depravity. Furutani names film director Kurosawa as "an inspiration" for this novel, and it shows. Every gestureAfrom Kaze's "gently cupping" his Lady's face as she dies, to the parrying of swordsAis rendered with the unhurried care of a master craftsman. Even the novel's one truly surprising scene, when Kaze learns the secret of Yuchan's life in the Jade Palace, has a kind of visual poetry, horror and beauty nightmarishly

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Author

Furutani, Dale

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published

1999

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction