In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai for Mexico, Spain and Rome. Velasco knew Japanese, and his zealous hope was to become primate over a converted, Catholic Japan. His mission, with the Samurai, was to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for Japanese trading rights with the West. It was a journey of incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...
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The samurai: a novel
1982, Harper & Row, Kodansha International
in English and Japanese
- 1st U.S. ed.
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Originally published. New York : Harper & Row : Kodansha International, 1982.
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