Title: The Soldier and the Samurai
Description: This book chronicles the fictional adventures of Shinsengumi 10th Captain Harada Sanosuke who reappears in Manchuria during the First Sino-Japan War 28 years after his alleged death in the Battle of Uneo. It is told from the perspective of the American born grandson of a former Imperial Japanese Soldier who claimed to have been saved by a mysterious elderly Japanese man claiming to be the famous lost Samurai.
Subjects: Shinsengumi, Samurai, Boshin War, First Sino-Japan War, Japan-Russo War
Places: Japan, Nagoya, Kure, Manchuria, Port Arthur, Seattle
People: Harada Sanosuke, Nagakura Shinpachi, Saitō Hajime, Okita Sōji, Isami Kondo
Time periods: Edo Period, Meiji Era