The samurai armor sent as a gift from the SHOGUN TOKUGAWA IEYASU to “King” Maurice at The Hague, in 1612, can be seen in Paris, having been forcibly removed there at some time in the 1790s.
HIDETADA sent two armors to James I/VI, c.1614; both made by Ieyasu’s personal armorer, Iwai Yozaemon, in Nara. Or rather, there not being sufficient time to make dedicated new armors for James before the ship departed, they were appropriated from another customer, whose mon they still bear. Both armors have been displayed in the Tower of London. Now that the Tower has, after 900 years, ceased to be an armory, one remains there, and the other is in the new Royal Armouries building in Leeds.
After the SAKOKU (“Closed Country”) Edict of AD 1636, Japan remained closed to foreigners until the advent of the American Commodore Matthew Perry and his gunships in AD 1853.
As yet, no data exists on the location of a relevant comet.
Acknowledgments
This book owes much to the restorative powers of strong coffee and chocolate biscuits, and more to the posters and lurkers of rec.arts.sf.composition; with special mention to Brian M. Scott, Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, Emiliano Farinelli, and Anna Mazzoldi.
About the Author
M ARY G ENTLE published her first novel at the age of eighteen, and has a master’s degree in seventeenth-century studies and another in war studies. She is author of several novels, including the award-winning Ash. She lives in Stevenage, England, with her partner, Dean Wayland.
Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A SUNDIAL IN A GRAVE: 1610 . Copyright © 2007 by Mary Gentle. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Table of Contents
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Mary Gentle Page 82