num_pages: 212
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Sword That Cut the Burning Grass
titlecomplete: The Sword That Cut the Burning Grass (The Samurai Mysteries)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magic, Adventure, Mystery, Japan, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Asian Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 350
places: Japan
series: Samurai Detective
publisher: Philomel Books