Kyushu's history and culture into stories | If you hunger to hear a story of universally human motives, joys, and fears told about a family living in a remote and unfamiliar land, then these books will satisfy that hunger with an account that both educates and inspires.

a river in Beppu, north Kyushu: a shrine ceremony in Tushima. This is a kind of drama in 13th century, the attack from the continent. Though Japan's main islands were protected by seas and weather, the island had been always the front to "the rest of all the world".

Beautiful Kurenai is an oiran, the highest level of a geisha. Though she now lives in splendor, she came from poverty. And when a millionaire buys her, it seems like life will change once more. But bandits attack as she and the millionaire journey through the forest, leaving Kurenai on her own in the woods.

Rutu is a young woman keeping her Christianity a secret, fearful of the government and its xenophobic policies. European missionaries brought the gospel to southern Japan in the 1600s, and Rutu’s family has kept the faith since, despite the personal danger.

Rutu is a young woman keeping her Christianity a secret, fearful of the government and its xenophobic policies. European missionaries brought the gospel to southern Japan in the 1600s, and Rutu’s family has kept the faith since, despite the personal danger.

Rutu flees to the woods to preserve her life and religion. There she encounters Jin, a ninja who barely escaped attacks on his life after deciding to leave the warrior way of life behind.

Rutu cares for the injured man and shelters him in her home in the woods—the same woods where Kurenai the Crimson wanders after her patron is murdered at the hands of bandits.

Opening on the Japanese Island of Kyushu in 1865, Kurenai the Crimson 1865 chronicles the tale of three distinctly different people and how their journeys intertwine in the waning years of the Samurai era.

Isolated Connected Kyushu Island weaves together the history of the people of Kyushu, Japan’s third largest island, and the stories that author Hana da Yumiko learned from her elders while she was a little girl. Spanning the years from the end of World War II to the early years of the twenty-first century, Isolated Connected Kyushu Island tells a story of transitions from the closing of the age of the samurai, to the rise of militarism, and finally to the coming and flourishing of democracy.
The family’s story illustrates how the land’s Hiding Christians kept their faith in secret, how women worked on their own without the support of men to encourage social change, how the ebbs and flows of many countries’ histories combined to influence the story of this land, and how a missionary and a local belief in a savior influenced religious life.

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