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Japan Folktales The Young Samurai & Beautiful Lady From The Painting

By

Xenoyuna Sakura

2015

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

JAPAN FOLKTALES THE YOUNG SAMURAI & BEAUTIFUL LADY FROM THE PAINTING

First edition. January 13, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 Xenoyuna Sakura.

Written by Xenoyuna Sakura.

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Japan Folktales The Young Samurai & Beautiful Lady From The Painting

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Preface

Many years ago, long before the present prosaic era in ancient japan, there lived in Yedo a young samurai named Toshika. His family belonged to the aristocratic rank of the hatamoto samurai, those knights who possessed the right to march to battle directly under the Shogun's flag (hata), and his father was a high official in the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Toshika, whose disposition was of a dreamy and indolent nature with scholarly tastes, had no occupation. He took life easily, and when his studies were finished, he went to live at the family villa situated in the suburb of Aoyama.

Toshika was not interested in society, and except for an occasional visit to his home or to his favourite friend, he never went anywhere. Far from the world he spent his days quietly and pleasantly, reading books, tending and watering his flowers, practising the tea-ceremony, and composing poetry and playing on the flute. He was a young man of many accomplishments and studied art. He collected curios and specimens

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 13.01.2016
ISBN: 978-3-7396-3189-9

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