Excerpt from Yodogima: In Feudalistic Japan It was an age of military prowess, of unlicensed chivalry, and to the victor belonged the spoils - till wrested from him, by another more powerful or less nice about the taking. Shibata, grizzled and fair, sat upon the veranda, looking out, over the ramparts, across the moats, along the busied streets, to the mellowed hillsides beyond. It was all his: gained by life's devoted, loyal service, not to self, but to a chosen, rising superior. It had now come time for him to assert ...
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Excerpt from Yodogima: In Feudalistic Japan It was an age of military prowess, of unlicensed chivalry, and to the victor belonged the spoils - till wrested from him, by another more powerful or less nice about the taking. Shibata, grizzled and fair, sat upon the veranda, looking out, over the ramparts, across the moats, along the busied streets, to the mellowed hillsides beyond. It was all his: gained by life's devoted, loyal service, not to self, but to a chosen, rising superior. It had now come time for him to assert his own supremacy; the lord he served had met his doom. Gone the self same way that ambition for ages had decreed - lay shrouded in state, with his good rich blood dripping cold at the dagger's point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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