Jan 3, 2010
Lightning | Lightning
At a glance:
- Author: Santō Kyōden
- First Published: 1806
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Romance
- Time of Work: Fifteenth century
- Setting: Japan
- Principal Characters: Sasaki Sadakuni, Sasaki Katsura, Sasaki Hanagata, Kumode No Kata, Ichō No Mae, Tsukiwaka, Fuwa Dōken, Fuwa Banzaemon, Hasebe Unroku, Nagoya Saburozaemon, Nagoya Sansaburō, Fujinami, Wisteria-wave, Sasara Sampachirō, Kuritaro, Chestnut-son, Kaede, Maple, Yuasa Matahei, Umezu Kamon, Good-gate, Sarujiro, Monkey-son, Shikazō, Deer
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Ghosts or apparitions, Revenge, Fifteenth century, Soldiers, Japan or Japanese people, Middle Ages, Feudalism
- Locales: Japan
The Story:
During the mid-fifteenth century, under the shogunate of
Ashikaga Yoshimasa, there lived a warrior lord by the name of
Sasaki Sadakuni, lord of the Province of Yamato. He had two sons.
One, twenty-five years old and named Katsura, was the son of
Sadakuni’s first wife; the other, twelve-year-old Hanagata,
was the son of Sadakuni’s second and present wife, Lady
Spider. Katsura, a handsome young man, was taken into the luxurious
and self-indulgent service of the shogun at Kyoto. There, at the
instigation of one of Katsura’s retainers, Fuwa Banzaemon,
Katsura fell...
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