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In this world, we follow our hero Mizuno (played by Kazunari Ninomiya from the pop group ARASHI) the son of a lower-class samurai family. He decides to pay back his family for their kindness (they refused to sell him to a new woman every night, apparently a common practice for the poor in this world) by joining o-oku, the harem of men kept at the palace for the pleasure of the lady shogun and to father the next in line.

Good call (or bad call depending on how you look at it) because the new shogun (after the 7-year-old shogun passes) has a real disdain for finery and expense. She chooses a more modest wardrobe and insists on it from her advisors as well.

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Hojo Masako, a Buddhist nun and wife of the first shogun, lived in a male-dominated era where women were not typically allowed to hold positions of power. Despite this, Masako became a largely influential political figure by becoming shogun, the supreme military leader in Japan's first samurai government, after her husband's death in 1199.

Following his lecture, Segal took questions from the audience, which was comprised of roughly 90 students and faculty. They asked Segal relevant questions such as the relationship between governmental power and religious power during Masako's lifetime and about social influences which would have contributed to the controversy of a female shogun.

"I had known of Masako being a prominent Japanese historical figure, but I'd never seen her listed as shogun, as most sources only listed her as the wife of a shogun," he said. "I was intrigued by the thought of Masako as a shogun herself, so I decided to pursue further research into her life."

But unlike Versailles, there were no women mingling with the crowds of noblemen and peering flirtatiously over the tops of their fans. As in the Forbidden City in Beijing and the seraglios of the Ottoman sultans, the ladies of Edo Castle lived in seclusion. Visitors were admitted no further than the edge of the omote, the outer palace, where the bureaucrats dealt with affairs of state. Beyond that lay the naka-oku or middle palace, the residence of the shogun and his personal servants. On the far side of that was a solid wall slicing through the complex of buildings, pierced with a single opening. Only one man could pass through the door: the shogun.

When the bells sounded, shaven-headed nuns who acted as officials unfastened the locks, drew aside the bolts and slid open the door. Men waited on the other side, but only one stepped through: the shogun.

One of the shoguns outdid all the others: the eleventh, Ienari, the grandfather of the fifteen-year-old youth whom Princess Kazu travelled from Kyoto to marry. During his lifetime, 1773 to 1841, he fathered 53 children by 27 concubines, though many of the children died as babies and others were mentally incapacitated or physically disabled. There were also many other women who did not bear children and whose names have not been recorded.

No one would ever have imagined that the shogun would never come back. Not long after he left, the castle was surrendered, the palace closed down and the women thrown out into the cold. The girl whom Kazu gave to her husband was destined to be the last concubine of the shoguns.

In Rowland's ninth absorbing historical set in 17th-century Japan (after 2003's The Dragon King's Palace), Sano Ichiro, the shogun's special criminal investigator, must once again navigate treacherous political waters to solve a puzzling murder. Sano finds himself retained by a corpse when the valet of one of the country's leading figures, councilman Makino Narisada, delivers a posthumous request from his master. Narisada asks Sano to examine the circumstances of his own death. At first it seems that the elderly official succumbed to natural causes, but several clues point to foul play. While the initial suspects from the victim's household all appear to be harboring guilty knowledge, the detective's task is rapidly complicated when the two leading political rivals battling to succeed the shogun accuse each other of the murder and pressure Sano to slant his pursuit accordingly. The shadow of events from The Dragon King's Palace hangs heavily over the two main supporting characters, Sano's wife and his chief assistant, driving them to take perilous risks; nonetheless, this is an accessible entry point to the series for newcomers. Deftly combining a classic whodunit with vivid period detail, Rowland raises the stakes for her next book with an unexpected twist at the end that promises to present her dogged but fallible hero with even more difficulties in the future. (Apr. 16) 006ab0faaa