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  • Ooku volume 14 - such fine reading.

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 20 11:21:14 2019
    Hi Readers and Typers,

    Ooku volume 14, the Shogun gets a husband from
    Satsuma and he helps her in ways unexpected.
    This parallels our history in which the Shogun
    got a wife from Satsuma and she helped him in ways
    unexpected.
    We have the same clash of interest groups with
    Mito wanting to name Yoshinobu to be the next Shogun.
    The Senior Councillor Abe dies and her replacement
    is not up to the job.
    The only problem is that the volume is too short.
    What a great author Fumi Yoshinaga is! All her
    writing are among my favorites.

    bliss

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Bobbie Sellers on Sun Aug 16 22:42:27 2020
    On 4/20/19 11:21 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
    Hi Readers and Typers,

        Ooku volume 14, the Shogun gets a husband from
    Satsuma and he helps her in ways unexpected.
        This parallels our history in which the Shogun
    got a wife from Satsuma and she helped him in ways
    unexpected.
        We have the same clash of interest groups with
    Mito wanting to name Yoshinobu to be the next Shogun.
        The Senior Councillor Abe dies and her replacement
    is not up to the job.
        The only problem is that the volume is too short.
        What a great author Fumi Yoshinaga is!  All her
    writing are among my favorites.

        bliss


    Reading volume 17 yesterday. Story maintains
    interest as the female shogun assures the Emperor Komei
    that she will defend his realms and himself as long as
    possible. The forces at work on the announcements of the
    Emperor are clarified as well as Satsuma and Choshu
    alliance.

    This is a very educational work as it
    examines the forces driving Japanese History which
    forces are revealed, some no more than long grudges
    held by the Outside lords(daimyo) who did not fight
    at the Tokugawa side in the battle of Sekigahara.
    On the other side of the equation are the wealthy
    modernizers who want merely to overthrow the
    Tokugawa to avoid colonization and shogunal
    restraints on their independent trade with
    the West, mainly with European and Chinese
    traders.

    My admiration for the author grows.

    bliss

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 17 07:40:36 2021
    Hi readers and typers,

    Finished off Ooku volume 18 a day or so back.
    This is the point where the history of Japan becomes
    part of World History again as the last Tokugawa
    shogun resigns and restores government to the
    Emperor.
    This is a fine last volume as the Ooku
    men and women relate stories about the changing
    times and what moves it. I say the last volume
    but this was alternative history of the Japan
    under the Shogunate of Tokugawa where the men are
    supplanted by women as the Red Face pox an invented
    illness kills most of the men, and at the stories
    end the Tokugawa shogunate is over.

    The whole series it worthwhile.

    bliss

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