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- From: cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: historical fiction
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:23:22 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- As a break from reading more or less scholarly works about Japan,
- I checked the local paperback exchange for historical fiction.
- My first try was a good one: _Harpoon_ by C.W. Nicol. There is
- a lot of interesting information about whaling techniques used
- by different countries around 1850 (sort of a modern _Moby Dick_!)
- although the main story line is about all the political factions
- in Japan. The characters in this book helped me grasp better
- the myriad groups and their beliefs, on the way to the Meiji
- Restoration: for the Shogunate/for the Tenno/use the technology
- of the foreigners/repell the barbarians/etc.etc.
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- Does anyone have any other recommendations for accurate and
- reasonably well written historical fiction?
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- Cathy
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