Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Translated by William E. Naff. Includes map, List of Principal Characters, Glossary and Bibliography. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxxiii, 798 pages. Winner of the 1987 Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. An historical novel about the Meiji Restoration from the point of view of a provincial activist in the Kokugaku (Nativism or National Learning) school of Hirata Atsutane.