Title: The Way of the Sword - Thomas Day - book
Summary :
To complete his son Mikédi's education, the warlord Nakamura Ito entrusts him to a ronin named Miyamoto Musashi. A legendary samurai, the greatest sword master known to the Empire of the Four Catfish. Together, for six long years, the master and apprentice will travel the road leading to the capital Edo, where the Dragon Empress awaits Mikédi to make him her husband. But the Way of the Sword is far from cutting across the archipelago in a straight line: from the Nakamura fortress to the floating cities of Kido, from the Palace of Flavors to the Pagoda of Pleasure, Mikédi will learn the delights of pleasure, the suffering of combat, and the perverse sweetness of betrayal. With The Way of the Saber, Thomas Day immerses his readers in a fantasy Japan, a 17th-century Japan that never was, where magic and dragons exist, where the meteoritic metal of sabers is dipped in blood.
