Jack Fletcher, a lone westerner in the land of the Samurai, is on the run with all of Japan after him. If he can make it to the port of Nagasaki that still will not guarantee his safety--he then has to find a ship that will take him home to Britain.
In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.
Examines the history of Japan from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, during which the island country completely isolated itself from the world and nurtured its own unique culture of shogun, samurai, and geishas.
A graphic novel featuring historic samurai Yagyu Jubei, in which Jubei must protect Japan from falling into civil war by finding a stolen book he swore to protect years ago.
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
