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When a warlord’s domain is contested, two unemployed samurai become unlikely guardians of the rightful heir, fighting to secure power and safeguard the future of a pivotal castle during a turbulent era of feudal Japan.
First publish date: 1976
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Lensey Namioka
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