From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   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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