Sanada Kintaro: The Ryo Shun Ninpo

Author: (Japanese) Yamada Kazutaro
Japan/Japan
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Ninja – Like sushi and artists, ninja are an internationally recognized term in Japan. In the past, Japan's upper-class power struggles often used ninja as weapons, employing any means to achieve their goals. They lived incognito, waiting for missions and ready to die at a moment's notice. They conducted various espionage activities for their masters, including secret strategies, sabotage, assassination, gathering enemy intelligence, and disrupting enemy rear bases. This author, hailed as "Japan's" (Japans), always immerses readers in the delicate and realistic art of Japanese ninja, making him one of the most esteemed writers in the genre of Japanese fantasy ninja fiction.
The fall of Osaka Castle, the memories of war, have long faded, yet the world did not become peaceful. In the spring of the 19th year of the era, the Kegon-ji Temple in Kamakura, renowned for its efforts to aid the vulnerable, witnessed a tragedy that ignited a blood feud between noble families. Seven swordsmen known as the "Aizu Seven Swords" incited the foolish and ignorant domain lord Kato Kiyomasa to annihilate the proud lord family of Horibe Masazumi. Such atrocities will inevitably meet retribution. For Tokugawa Chiyohime and the seven women who bore the burden of this blood feud, the swordmaster Musashi Miyamoto truly took action.