The Shoguns Daughter Rowland Laura JohPaperback
The Shoguns Daughter Rowland Laura JohPaperback Japan, 1704. Smallpox pustules cover her face. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse. After…
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The Shoguns Daughter Rowland Laura JohPaperback
Japan, 1704. Smallpox pustules cover her face. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse.
After Tsuruhime takes her last breath, the old woman watching from the doorway says, "Who's going to tell the Shogun his daughter is dead?"The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease. There will be no grandchild to leave the kingdom.
Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro.Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the Shogun's son, believing it's