Cover art for The Samurai of the Red Carnation
Published
Pushkin, October 2024
ISBN
9781782279679
Format
Hardcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.3cm

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Matsuo is born to be a samurai, but as he is being trained in the art of war he realises he was meant for a different art altogether. Turning his back on his future as a warrior of the sword, he decides instead to do battle with words, as a poet. Thus begins a story of romance and adventure, love and betrayal, that takes Matsuo across medieval Japan, through bloody battlefields and burning cities, culminating in his ultimate test at the uta awase - where Japan's greatest poets engage in fierce verbal combat for the honour of victory.

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