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ROT BENEATH THE BLOSSOMS — HISTORY THAT BLEEDS, NOT BOWS This isn’t your grandmother’s cherry-blossom scrapbook. It’s a war drum. A blade. A book thick enough to bruise, and sharp enough to cut. Myths don’t die gently—they get dissected. I’m here for that. You should be too. I wrote a foreword so long it could legally qualify as Part I. I refuse to shorten it. It’s my polite throat-clearing before I start flaying national myths like they owe me money. After that, you’ll find essays—more like battlefield autopsies—on Aizu loyalty, 47 Rōnin propaganda, Nakano Takeko’s...

The Jōshitai: Unsung Heroines of the Boshin War – Expanded Edition By Sumiko Nakano They weren’t supposed to exist. Not officially. Not in the histories written by men with ink and authority. But when the Tokugawa order crumbled and war came to Aizu, the women of the Jōshitai didn’t wait for permission. They armed themselves with naginata, short swords, and resolve—and stepped into the fire. This newly updated edition of The Jōshitai is more than a tribute. It’s a reclamation. An excavation of names, faces, and legacies that history tried to erase. Based on deeper research, ...

Edo, 1868. The empire is bleeding. So are the lies. After killing a man they weren’t supposed to and fleeing the political firestorm in Aizu, the Hayashi sisters arrive in Edo under cover of silence. But the capital is no sanctuary. It’s a city dressed in ceremony, rotting underneath. Foreigners haunt the docks. Spies poison the palaces. And everyone smiles as they sharpen their blades. Sumiko, Misako, and Aiko didn’t come to play diplomat. They came to uncover the truth behind their father’s death—and drag it, kicking and screaming, into the light. But truth has a price in Edo. ...

What do you get when two Japanese warrior women armed with snacks, sarcasm, and ancestral trauma set off across Scotland in a beat-up car? Disaster. Laughter. And maybe spiritual enlightenment—if they survive the sheep. Drive, Die, Repeat is not a travel guide. It’s a full-throttle, side-splitting, emotionally unhinged diary of a road trip that was never meant to be a book. From cursed battlefields to haunted cairns, from burger-fuelled prophecies to historic blunders and sheep-based warfare, this is the chronicle of two chaos gremlins leaving a trail of confusion, haggis, and ...

Steel and Vengeance A Daughters of Wars Novel – Book One Japan, 1867. The Shogunate is splintering. The Emperor rises. The old ways are bleeding out—and with them, everything once sacred. Far from the capital, in the shadow of a forgotten lake, lies Kasumigaura, a fictional village where the world still breathes in sword strokes and silence. It’s here the Hayashi sisters are raised—not as ornaments, but as weapons. Trained in war. Schooled in honor. Bound in blood. Sumiko, the eldest, speaks only with her eyes and her blade. Misako, the middle, is fire—sharp, wild, unyielding. ...