An Imperial Concubine's Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
...An enjoyable book(John ButlerAsian Review of Books)...A fresh, detailed engagement--simultaneously biographical, historical, and literary--with the lives of a court family that survived a tumultous age of war and exile.(Satoko ShimazakiJapanese Language and Literature1900-01-00)Sophisticated yet accessible, the book would be an ideal reading for an undergraduate class.(Laura NenziSixteenth Century Journal1900-01-00)