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Historical person
Emperor Meiji is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, military command and battlefield decision-making, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Christopher Nicole’s Bloody Sunrise, Out of this will come the resurgence of Japan under the Meiji Emperor, and its rise to being the major power in East Asia.
In non-fiction, Emperor Meiji is discussed in John Man’s Samurai. In John Man’s Samurai, born into the Satsuma domain, Saigō became a central figure in the movement that overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and restored political authority in the name of Emperor Meiji.
Series
The Bloody Sun novels follow two generations of the Barrett family inside the making of modern Japan. Bloody Sunrise begins with a British naval officer shipwrecked in 1861, adopted into Japanese society and employed in the creation of a modern navy during the political upheaval that produces the…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
