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.
click the price to the link | Kurenai the Crimson | Isolated Connected Kyushu Island |
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Amzon | $5.40 | $19.54 |
Kindle | $0.85 | $1.23 |
Nook | $1.99 | $0.99 |
CreateSpace | $5.40 | |
WestBow Press | $0.99 | |
esentral | RM8.99 | |
ciando | €2.19 | |
half.ebay | $5.51 | $18.35 |
alibris | \730 | \2951 |
Barnes&Noble | $5.40 | $19.84 |
Kinokuniya | \699 | \3071 |
IndieBound | $5.40 | |
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$24.95 | |
Indigo | $2.52 | $1.99 |
kobo | \258 | \162 |
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