The Shogun’s Gold by Masayoshi Sato (.ePUB)
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The Shogun’s Gold by Masayoshi Sato, Mark Schilling (translator)
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Overview: Historical novels are common enough: dozens of new ones (and a few fine ones) pour from the presses every year. Economic historical novels are another matter. In the case of Japan, however, the drama of emergence from two-and-a-half centuries of national isolation was very much an economic one. In the Edo (now Tokyo) of 1859 exchange rates were not arcane figures that only the experts claimed to understand, but symbols of a new relationship with the world. In setting them, the Japanese authorities and foreign diplomats uncovered fundamental problems—and unleashed fundamental passions.
It is those problems and passions that concern Masayoshi Sato in The Shogun’s Gold. Interestingly, he chooses to view them mainly through the eyes of Rutherford Alcock, Britain’s first consul general to Japan. In the process of sifting through period documents, Sato unearthed a fascinating tale of greed and deception—and presented it in the form of a true detective story that may well stir up new debate about an American diplomatic hero.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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