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An American midshipman narrates a voyage to Japan and becomes entangled in courtly intrigue surrounding a shogun’s daughter, navigating duty, honor, and emerging affection. The action moves from sea passages and coastal visits to encounters with ronin, geisha, and regional princes, and includes assaults, rescue missions, ritual suicide, and tests of loyalty. Episodes range from formal audiences and clandestine plotting to violent confrontations, while adoption, marriage, and political alliances reshape personal bonds. The narrative blends travel description, cultural detail, and melodramatic suspense against a backdrop of ritual obligation and imminent upheaval.
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
In the list of books by the same author, the price for the second one actually was printed as $150, with no room for a decimal point.