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Good novel about the period before the Tokugawa bakufu ... the translation prose is somewhat wooden, but somehow that gives it the flavour of a manga. The Taiko, the "peasant general" Hideyoshi, actually the son of a country samurai, was the second of the three characters who built the unified Japanese state out of the quarrelling feudatories. Those who have read Clavell's "Shogun" may know some of the people.

Good novel about the period before the Tokugawa bakufu ... the translation prose is somewhat wooden, but somehow that gives it the flavour of a manga. The Taiko, the "peasant general" Hideyoshi, actually the son of a country samurai, was the second of the three characters who built the unified Japanese state out of the quarrelling feudatories. Those who have read Clavell's "Shogun" may know some of the people.

Good novel about the period before the Tokugawa bakufu ... the translation prose is somewhat wooden, but somehow that gives it the flavour of a manga. The Taiko, the "peasant general" Hideyoshi, actually the son of a country samurai, was the second of the three characters who built the unified Japanese state out of the quarrelling feudatories. Those who have read Clavell's "Shogun" may know some of the people.