The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro

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Lord Asunaro inherits a small Japanese fiefdom and embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has nothing to do with swords, battles, or the heroics expected of his station. His concerns are more intimate and more unusual — the pleasures and confusions of a man learning who he is in a world that already thinks it knows. Kanji Hanawa's historical novel offers an uncommon perspective on feudal Japan: not the warrior's path but the inner life of a lord more interested in understanding himself than in ruling others. A quiet, entertaining novel about a man whose most daring act is the refusal to be the kind of hero his culture demands.