The Last Concubine is a story by one of the non-fiction author. This tells about the period, cultural and geographical details. Though the narration is discomfited this makes the novel too long. The story is good, although it sounds like female version of Clavell’s Shogun. The clunky writing style has made it fight back and it’s tempting to glide the last hundred pages.
Sachi is the adopted daughter of a village innkeeper and former samurai who goes on to become concubine to the shogun in the 1860s. When her husband dies bafflingly and the palace at Edo is in danger of extinction, Sachi and her maid Taki will escape trap and Princess Kazu seeks refuge. Sachi meets swordsman Shinzaemon and his companions Sachi falls for Shinzaemon.
During this journey Sachi discovers the truth about her mother and that she is not simply a jumped up peasant innkeeper’s daughter, and that she may be repeating her mother’s crime of falling for a man rather than doing her duty. At the same time, westerners are coming to Japan and bringing strange ways and machinery with them, threatening the old culture.
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