Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show (2007)
“WHEN THEY LEFT the Pavilion of Timelessness it was just after noon and raining. Manjiro carried the smoothed-out sheet of paper inside his kimono, and Tsune carried a bangasa, one of those thickly waxed paper umbrellas that seemed permanently stationed by the teahouse door. The bamboo forest was quiet as they walked. The tops of the trees swayed in the rising wind, but the leaves on the pathways were as sodden as the ones from Einosuke’s neighbor’s yard.
Some of Lord Tokugawa’s samurai had come... out to practice their skills in the rain and were strutting about in a clearing close to the lodge. A few made passes at each other with bamboo swords, while others exchanged insults in the dialects of fiefdoms that were most often politically opposed to their lord’s. They wanted to be ready with words as well as with weapons, on the off chance that interfiefdom warfare should break out.
All Lord Tokugawa’s samurai knew Tsune and all, save the older of the two men at the door, had at one time or another fallen into gossiping about her, saying that her father had been lax, that he and Lord Tokugawa should have married her off years earlier.MoreLess
Some of Lord Tokugawa’s samurai had come... out to practice their skills in the rain and were strutting about in a clearing close to the lodge. A few made passes at each other with bamboo swords, while others exchanged insults in the dialects of fiefdoms that were most often politically opposed to their lord’s. They wanted to be ready with words as well as with weapons, on the off chance that interfiefdom warfare should break out.
All Lord Tokugawa’s samurai knew Tsune and all, save the older of the two men at the door, had at one time or another fallen into gossiping about her, saying that her father had been lax, that he and Lord Tokugawa should have married her off years earlier.MoreLess
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