So this historical novel came out in the 1930s, and the introduction here unfortunately calls it the “Gone with the Wind” of Japan, which might be true in terms of the epic scope and readability, but given that I am quite sour on “Gone with the Wind” I hope that is the full connection. Then there’s another connection that the introduction discusses, which is with the James Clavell novel Shogun, which came out about 30 or so years later and tells a similar story against the […]