Tales From Old Japan

By P.D.R. Lindsay

Catch the enchantment of 16thC and 17thC Japan, country of the misty mountains, towering castles, (shiro) magical shrines, gods and spirits lurking everywhere to catch the unwary, and that code of honour, of duty at all costs, the life of the honourable samurai. The four stories in this anthology, based on the myths and legends of Edo Japan, of the best of the Samurai era, catch the scent and sense of old Japan.

Peasant girl, Chieko, pays the debt she owes to the Lord and Lady who rescued her by using her sense of smell.

It might be Hanami - the cherry blossom festival - but Lord Iwasaki’s daughter, Yoshie, has to prove that she is truly a samurai’s daughter, capable of doing her duty and defending her family.

A Lord's beautiful daughter shows her quality when she is kidnapped and waits for rescue and revenge.

Eiji is denied the role of samurai, a life he expected and wanted, by the inter-clan manoeuvrings of his honourable father's wife. As a scholar and calligrapher he has achieved renown, but will his father accept this?.He finds out when recalled by his mother to avenge the Wife's attempts to bring her clan into the shiro (castle) and take over the castle and estates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: P.D.R. Lindsay
• Release date: Aug 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9780995138315

P.D.R. Lindsay

p.d.r. lindsay (no capitals please in tribute to a favourite poet, e. e. cummings) makes New Zealand home. Born in Ireland, brought up in Yorkshire, educated in England, Canada and New Zealand, writer p.d.r. lindsay is also Mrs Salmon, Ms Lindsay-Salmon and even for eight years in Japan, Professor Lindsay-Salmon. This wide experience of different cultures colours her writing and keeps her travelling.Social issues are her main concern which is why she writes historical stories about ordinary people, the ones whose names and lives we don't know much about. Reading the diaries and letters of parsons and farmers, wives and daughters, merchants and tradesmen showed her how the basic human dilemmas do not change over the centuries. She finds that certain human trait both good and bad, can be better shown through historical stories than through contemporary ones and hopes that readers will think about those failings as they apply to today.

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