Kyoto is burning, and the order read to every retainer in the yard is absolute: no household leaves the capital without leave in writing, under the lord's own hand.
Aoyagi Jinzaburo's wife has counted the storehouse and walked every route out. Her conclusion is that they must go. A low-ranking mounted retainer with a left hand burned wrist to elbow that will never close again, Jinzaburo spends one dry, windy season learning that the war he is fighting and the war destroying his household are not the same war.
Every attempt to move his family fails, and none of it fails through villainy — a bought refuge opened from inside by its own gatekeeper, a brother's misjudgment witnessed by an officer with a board, a fire that severs the ward he fights in from the ward his family lives in. Then a retainer of the other side puts a sealed safe-conduct in his hand with the name left blank, and names a price.
Ashes of Kyoto is the first Samurai Wars novel.
Genre: Historical
Aoyagi Jinzaburo's wife has counted the storehouse and walked every route out. Her conclusion is that they must go. A low-ranking mounted retainer with a left hand burned wrist to elbow that will never close again, Jinzaburo spends one dry, windy season learning that the war he is fighting and the war destroying his household are not the same war.
Every attempt to move his family fails, and none of it fails through villainy — a bought refuge opened from inside by its own gatekeeper, a brother's misjudgment witnessed by an officer with a board, a fire that severs the ward he fights in from the ward his family lives in. Then a retainer of the other side puts a sealed safe-conduct in his hand with the name left blank, and names a price.
Ashes of Kyoto is the first Samurai Wars novel.
Genre: Historical
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