by Margi Preus
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* Quotations that appear in the Author’s Note have been taken from these sources.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Yuko Shimizu. Yuko Shimizu. Public domain. Yuko Shimizu. Yuko Shimizu. Courtesy of the Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Public domain. Public domain. Author’s collection. Public domain. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Public domain. Public domain. Library of Congress LC-DIG-jpd-02398. Wikimedia Commons. Yuko Shimizu. Library of Congress LC-DIG-jpd-00507. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Collection. Public domain. Library of Congress LC-H261-2000137. US National Archives, Record Group 11. Public domain.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I had a lot to learn in order to write this book, and I owe much to the wise counsel, sage advice, and expertise of the following people: Junji Kitadai, Eri Fujieda, Bob Bruce, Peter Bleed, Ryuta Nakajima, Peter Duus, Catherine Preus, Maryann Weidt, and Miaki Habuka and David Hammer.
Special thanks to Stephen Salel of the Honolulu Museum of Art for the opportunity to see the Black Ship Scroll and for his insights into its history and significance, and for permission to use images from the scroll.
Thanks to illustrator Yuko Shimizu for the exciting art and to my agent, Stephen Fraser, for encouragement. An enormous arigato gozaimasu to the brilliant people at Abrams/Amulet: Chad Beckerman and Melissa Arnst, Elizabeth Peskin, Richard Slovak, Jim Armstrong, Jason Wells, and especially Howard Reeves, whose sparkly red pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword.
Lastly, thanks to Miori Dejima for asking the question that set me off on this adventure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margi Preus is the author of the Newbery Honor winner Heart of a Samurai as well as the highly praised novels Shadow on the Mountain and West of the Moon. She has traveled the globe to research her books and, along the way, made friends in Japan, Norway, and many other places. Preus lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Visit her online at margipreus.com.