Title: The sword that cut the burning grass
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.
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories, Samurai, Kings, queens, rulers, Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction
Places: Japan
Time periods: Tokugawa period, 1600-1868