| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 39 |
I wondered if Lord Nishida was truly loyal to his shogun, and, if so, I wondered if his shogun was such as to deserve such loyalty, or might he, rather, in his way, regard lightly the feudal pledges which would bind a lord and vassal. |
10 |
| 38 | 335 |
Perhaps he was no longer required by Lord Okimoto, who was, it seemed, a cousin to the shogun, some shogun. |
10 |
| 10 | 368 |
I would later learn that daimyo, or "great names," were vassals to a shogun, a high lord, usually a military governor, with an army at his disposal. |
10 |
| 10 | 369 |
A shogun was nominally subject to an emperor, but the emperor's role was largely ceremonial, and the true power, as is commonly the case, lies with those who are the masters of men and weapons. |
10 |
| 10 | 795 |
"For the shogun, of course," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 11 | 91 |
I thus inferred that the gifting of her, amongst other gifts, to a shogun by Lord Nishida, which I understood to be his intent, would not be imminent, but perhaps months away. |
10 |
| 11 | 94 |
By the time she had learned her collar, and her skin would again sparkle, and her hair would be again a glory, and her eyes would no longer reflect terror but rather the eagerness of a surrendered slave, hoping to be found pleasing by her master, she would be worthy, I was sure, of having the vestit... |
10 |
| 18 | 184 |
For example, a warrior might win favor from his daimyo or shogun by garnering heads, this understood as a proof of prowess in war. |
10 |
| 18 | 361 |
An interesting exception to this sort of thing is that a prisoner, or one on the verge of capture, may be accorded the right to accept a new daimyo or shogun. |
10 |
| 18 | 469 |
I did know he had anticipated giving Saru to an important individual, a shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 53 |
Too, recall that Lord Nishida intends her for a shogun". |
10 |
| 20 | 202 |
It was true, of course, that she had some value to Lord Nishida, so much that he was even considering her as a possible gift for a shogun. |
10 |
| 22 | 529 |
I was sure she might please the senses of a man, perhaps even those of a shogun. |
10 |
| 22 | 590 |
"Yes," said Tajima, "and she was selected with care, in compliance with a very special order, one requisitioning a particular sort of slave, one worthy of a being a suitable gift for a shogun". |
10 |
| 23 | 13 |
Even now I thought she could please the senses of a shogun, and, properly trained, might be a suitable gift for one. |
10 |
| 23 | 15 |
I supposed one such as a shogun would suffer no dearth of collar-girls, say, women purchased in one market or another or captured from alien houses, but I supposed she would be rare, if not unique, amongst his female possessions. |
10 |
| 24 | 214 |
"My shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 28 | 204 |
It would not do, of course, for her to share a wagon with contract women, but, on the other hand, as she was intended for a shogun, one would certainly not wish to risk her either in the mud and cold of the march, put her at the mercy of impatient whip-masters, who might mark her back, or place her ... |
10 |
| 31 | 13 |
"Lord Okimoto is cousin to the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 31 | 45 |
"He is cousin to the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 34 | 107 |
I supposed that a shogun would relish such a gift, from whomsoever's hands it might be received. |
10 |
| 35 | 95 |
Lord Okimoto, I gathered, did not know of the existence of Saru, and of her possible value, as a gift to a shogun. |
10 |
| 38 | 217 |
"Strange then," I said, "that she would be thought fit for a shogun". |
10 |
| 38 | 233 |
She would doubtless make a lovely gift for a shogun. |
10 |
| 38 | 234 |
Perhaps Lord Nishida might purchase high favor by means of such a gift, a favor which might possibly exceed even that of a shogun's cousin. |
10 |
| 38 | 498 |
"Do you think she would make a nice gift for a shogun?" I asked. |
10 |
| 43 | 110 |
"Lord Okimoto," said Lord Nishida, "is cousin to the shogun". |
10 |
| 43 | 151 |
"I fear," said Lord Nishida, "that you will never sit upon the mat of the shogun nor upon the throne of the Ubar". |
10 |
| 43 | 175 |
"Lord Okimoto is cousin to the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 42 |
The scrolls allege that the bodies on the ship are those of criminals, men who were enemies of the shogun, men who conspired against him, who dared oppose his will, whose loyalty was suspect, who failed to pay their taxes, who tried to hide food, who failed to speak of him with sufficient reverence,... |
10 |
| 16 | 44 |
"And who is this shogun?" "The great lord, Yamada, our enemy," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 16 | 235 |
I would learn later it was the name of the high lord, or shogun, to whom Lords Nishida and Okimoto were pledged. |
10 |
| 17 | 73 |
She was apparently being groomed to be a gift for the shogun, Temmu. |
10 |
| 23 | 11 |
"I am told," said Tarl Cabot, "that is the castle of Temmu, the holding, the fortress, of the shogun, Temmu". |
10 |
| 24 | 40 |
He was muchly independent now, as Lords Okimoto and Nishida were elsewhere, I supposed in attendance on the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 25 | 26 |
It remained, at least until now, despite the woes of the war, secure and inviolable, one stubborn, mighty, obdurate impediment to the designs of Lord Yamada, shogun, as it was said, at least by his minions, of the Twelve Islands. |
10 |
| 25 | 31 |
I saw little of Cabot, but, from time to time, he appeared at the castle, arriving at night on tarnback, presumably to consult with the shogun, Temmu, and Lords Okimoto and Nishida. |
10 |
| 25 | 34 |
I gathered this was not that unusual, given that he was a shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 97 |
Lord Okimoto, then, perhaps not to be outdone, gave ten slaves to the shogun. |
10 |
| 26 | 99 |
A daimyo or shogun will have suzerainty over various villages, which he protects, and from which he obtains the means to maintain his men. |
10 |
| 30 | 149 |
And too, I wondered, what must then be the nature of a shogun? I was troubled by the events of the past ten Ahn or so. |
10 |
| 33 | 369 |
"It is, or was, one of the three ships," he said, "of the shogun, Lord Temmu". |
10 |
| 35 | 5 |
"I have seen that ship! It is, or was, a ship of the shogun, Lord Temmu!" "Come from the World's End?" I said. |
10 |
| 36 | 393 |
"We have journeyed to the World's End, Brundisium, we have founded a trade route, we are in the process of obtaining much needed goods for our shogun, Lord Temmu, we have foiled, or meddled in, the plot of the traitor, Tyrtaios, have perhaps saved your life, and, in any event have deprived him of hi... |
10 |
| 36 | 423 |
"Or the throne of a shogun," said the captain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 347 |
"Sake and beauty have addled the wits of even daimyos, have they not dear Akio?" "As the shogun has said," he smiled, lifting one of the small cups of sake to the shogun. |
10 |
| 21 | 65 |
Accordingly, I thought it possible he was, as he had claimed, loyal to the shogun, and had chosen this means, that of a reading, to inform the shogun of a sinister intelligence. |
10 |
| 36 | 78 |
"I have with me two of the shogun's officers, of the palace itself, who will conduct you in honor to a suitable officer, before whom you may pledge your service to the shogun". |
10 |
| 39 | 38 |
If he were captured, it is likely he would be brought to the shogun, and the shogun, as you know, is here". |
10 |
| 42 | 108 |
Add in now, in addition to Lord Akio's presumed uncontested ascent to the shogunate, his likely jealousy, envy, and hatred of Lord Yamada, and his long-thwarted ambition to ascend to the dais of the shogun, his possible interest in the shogun's daughter, now a vulnerable, available slave. |
10 |
| 47 | 284 |
Katsutoshi, captain of the shogun's guard, drew his sword and leaped between Nodachi and the shogun. |
10 |
| 60 | 3 |
Tajima, his weapon recovered, Pertinax, wadding his shirt against his wound, and I, had accompanied Nodachi and the shogun to the garden, having taken our way through the open chamber leading to the garden, that chamber in which, some time ago, we had been entertained at the shogun's supper. |
10 |
| 60 | 132 |
How dared he touch the person of the shogun? On the shogun's left shoulder was the odd mark, which so resembled a lotus. |
10 |
| 1 | 14 |
Both Lords Nishida and Okimoto were daimyos of the shogun, Lord Temmu, master of Temmu's fortress, now for several months under siege. |
10 |
| 1 | 36 |
No further excursions in force had been risked against the enemy, the forces of the shogun, Lord Yamada, which had soon invested the holding, even to blockading the wharves below, denying access to the sea. |
10 |
| 1 | 136 |
"It is for the shogun, Lord Temmu," said Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| 1 | 377 |
"Shogun Yamada has little to fear of such things, as he rules soilsmen, fishermen, craftsmen, buyers and sellers, wary subordinates, even daimyos, with the rod of terror," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 1 | 394 |
"I would have an audience with the shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 401 |
"One does not question the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 1 | 430 |
Too, even for a shogun of the power of Lord Yamada, it is demanding and expensive to maintain large numbers of men in the field, to supply and support them, and impractical, if not hazardous, to attempt to do so without sufficient resources". |
10 |
| 1 | 499 |
In any event, she, originally owned by Lord Nishida, had been given as a gift to the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 2 | 33 |
I ranked high amongst the mercenaries, and certainly, as least as I understood it, in the cavalry, regarded as so crucial to the strategic intentions of the shogun. |
10 |
| 2 | 113 |
I was reasonably confident that I would find, somewhere about the camp, somewhere in the snow and darkness, probably at its periphery, a contingent of the men of great Yamada, Shogun of the Islands. |
10 |
| 4 | 146 |
He was loyal to the cavalry, to his shogun, Lord Temmu, and to his daimyo, Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 4 | 183 |
"Hail Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said the voice. |
10 |
| 4 | 278 |
It is commonly done, that they may be presented to a daimyo, or shogun. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
The Dais "I bring you words of conciliation, of forgiveness, and joy from your lord, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said Tyrtaios. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
"I bear, on behalf of my lord, and yours, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said Tyrtaios, "welcome, merciful words, words of exoneration, and clemency". |
10 |
| 6 | 46 |
"It is the word of my lord, and yours, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said Tyrtaios, "that peace, amity, harmony, and love, be between us, fully and forever". |
10 |
| 6 | 64 |
Accordingly, my lord, and yours, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, is willing, under certain conditions, to grant full amnesty to all rebels". |
10 |
| 6 | 78 |
Years ago Lord Okimoto, in serving his shogun, Lord Temmu, his cousin, had sustained a knife wound in his throat. |
10 |
| 6 | 89 |
If the shogun were to speak at all, in a situation of this sort, he would be likely to speak later, after others had spoken. |
10 |
| 6 | 91 |
He was shogun. |
10 |
| 6 | 99 |
I withdrew from your service only under the most powerful of moral incentives, my recognition of the righteousness of the cause of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands. |
10 |
| 6 | 104 |
Lord Yamada is not Shogun of the Islands though he may pronounce himself such. |
10 |
| 6 | 115 |
The might of steel, victorious and decisive, proclaims him shogun. |
10 |
| 6 | 141 |
"It is requested only that you live in peace and harmony with your lord, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
Bring gifts to the pavilion of your lord, great Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 6 | 166 |
With him had come certain officers of General Yamada, presumably to monitor the proceedings and, later, to report upon them to the shogun, and several Ashigaru. |
10 |
| 6 | 206 |
"He is shogun!" whispered Lord Nishida, quickly, reprovingly. |
10 |
| 6 | 227 |
"No daimyo would agree to address such words to a shogun," said Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| 6 | 257 |
Tyrtaios turned to the shogun. |
10 |
| 7 | 86 |
She had been the slave of Lord Nishida who had, after we had arrived at the World's End, bestowed her on the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 7 | 209 |
"Even the slaves of the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 7 | 303 |
"He is cousin to the shogun," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 7 | 304 |
"Perhaps he would like to be shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 375 |
"Lord Okimoto," said Lord Nishida, "has the ear of the shogun". |
10 |
| 7 | 381 |
"Surely you have contact with the shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 400 |
"If you will provide to me the details of your plan," he said, "I shall attempt to secure the approval of the shogun". |
10 |
| 8 | 27 |
One seldom comes easily to the dais of a shogun. |
10 |
| 8 | 48 |
"It gives me great pleasure to be of service to my commander, and my daimyo, and shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 14 |
They cast themselves prostrate before the shogun and, eyes on the lacquered boards, not daring to raise their heads, babbled out their report. |
10 |
| 9 | 15 |
Men and officers were gathered about, and, in moments, surgent and uncontrolled, what had once been the scarcely audible stammerings of frightened Ashigaru were being proclaimed, shouted, broadcast throughout the entire camp of the shogun. |
10 |
| 9 | 20 |
"Yes, yes!" screamed the irate shogun. |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
"Go, be done with it!" The shogun then turned away, returning to his private quarters. |
10 |
| 9 | 25 |
* * * I had returned to the holding and had spoken to Lord Okimoto, and he, in turn, shortly thereafter, had addressed himself to his cousin, the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 9 | 95 |
Any troubling lacuna in the intelligence available to the shogun would be brief. |
10 |
| 11 | 288 |
"The guilty party stands close to the shogun," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 11 | 328 |
If there is a traitor in high places, it is surely Lord Okimoto, fat, sly, captious, suspicious, censuring, unpleasant, secretive Lord Okimoto, a bloated tarsk, cousin to the shogun, he who would have much to gain from treachery, he who is next in line for the shogunate". |
10 |
| 12 | 148 |
I found this anomalous, for both commonly attended on the shogun. |
10 |
| 12 | 149 |
Daichi, dour and gaunt, the reader of bones and shells, was in the room, sitting to the left of Lord Temmu, and, surprisingly, behind the shogun and a bit to the left, as well, was a contract woman, standing, Sumomo. |
10 |
| 12 | 180 |
Then I recalled that it would be more appropriate for the shogun to be addressed. |
10 |
| 12 | 209 |
"Who is shogun?" he asked. |
10 |
| 12 | 210 |
"Lord Temmu is shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 214 |
"I have heard of them," I said, glancing at the scattering of debris on the floor, near the shogun. |
10 |
| 12 | 236 |
I do not think I had hitherto understood, or taken with sufficient seriousness, the possibility that the shogun might credit the distribution of small objects spilled on a hardwood floor with such portent. |
10 |
| 12 | 393 |
"This is the prisoner, the rebel, Tarl Cabot, enemy to the rightful house of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, delivered to us by the noble Tyrtaios, devoted, trusted mercenary?" "Yes, Lord," said a voice. |
10 |
| 12 | 425 |
Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, has not been pleased. |
10 |
| 12 | 442 |
See that he is presented appropriately, helpless, foul and prostrate, a captured rebel, a defeated enemy, before the shogun". |
10 |
| 13 | 366 |
Aside from your mission to encounter me and see that I was conducted to Tarncamp, you were destined, even from Earth, to be a gift for the shogun, Lord Temmu". |
10 |
| 13 | 436 |
I myself, based on my earlier conversation with the shogun, was well aware of plans imparted to me, but, in the case of a Lord Yamada there may be plans unspoken, plans behind other plans, or different plans altogether. |
10 |
| 14 | 41 |
"You expected to bear the brunt of a shogun's wrath," said Lord Yamada, "exquisitely expressed over weeks with cords and irons, with needles and clamps, with flaming splinters, perhaps culminating eventually in the horror of the straw jacket?" "I did not know what to expect," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 59 |
"You are shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 95 |
"Then I would have been in your power," I said, "and might expect to bear the brunt of the wrath of a shogun?" "Of course," he said, handing me the long glass. |
10 |
| 14 | 128 |
"He preys on the superstition of the shogun, and influences his moves and policies by supposed readings of the bones and shells". |
10 |
| 14 | 181 |
"I am shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
It was my understanding that Lord Yamada's daimyos, despite their own lands and holdings, were expected to attend on the shogun several months of each year. |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
If a daimyo failed to respond at any time to a particular summons, or did not choose to honor his shogun with his presence at expected times, he was regarded, de facto, as placing himself in a state of rebellion, the likely consequence of which would be his execution, unpleasantly consummated, the e... |
10 |
| 15 | 92 |
"You are a guest of the shogun". |
10 |
| 16 | 62 |
"Perhaps," he said, "you would like to seize such a mount, and slip away, discourteously declining the hospitality of the shogun". |
10 |
| 16 | 71 |
"I am a humble servitor of the shogun. |
10 |
| 16 | 83 |
The private quarters of the shogun himself, as nearly as I could determine from the soon-somewhat-evasive answers of the Pani slaves, were frequently changed, he seldom occupying the same chambers two nights in a row. |
10 |
| 17 | 1 |
The Archery Court "Lord Yamada," I said, "cares to speak with me?" I had been conducted by an Ashigaru to the shogun's archery court. |
10 |
| 17 | 142 |
The Ashigaru who had withdrawn the arrows from the post to which the target was affixed had now brought them back to Lord Yamada, and placed them in the stand which reposed to the shogun's right. |
10 |
| 17 | 143 |
I gathered the shogun might continue his recreation, or practice. |
10 |
| 17 | 175 |
"Even a shogun," he said, "has his vanity". |
10 |
| 17 | 176 |
"Ho!" cried the Ashigaru suddenly, pointing upward, to the north, he who had returned the six arrows to the shogun. |
10 |
| 17 | 180 |
"Good," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 17 | 192 |
"They might be ambitious, they might plot, they might desire to sit upon the dais of the shogun". |
10 |
| 17 | 213 |
"No, please, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 17 | 216 |
"Please do so," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 18 | 13 |
"The shogun," I said, "looks for allies, not enemies. |
10 |
| 18 | 51 |
"You will not be detained in your departure," I said, "for it will be assumed you are returning to camp with my orders, orders which, as we shall manage it, will be supposed favorable to the plans of the shogun". |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
These villages pay the rice tax, supplied primarily in produce, rice itself, to the daimyo, and the shogun receives his tax, usually in kind, as well, from the daimyos. |
10 |
| 19 | 8 |
Some villages, on the other hand, are under the rule of the shogun himself, so he profits both in virtue of a direct and an indirect tax. |
10 |
| 19 | 27 |
"Rather the shogun hopes to please you". |
10 |
| 19 | 33 |
"Perhaps," said Pertinax, "the shogun might supply a contract woman for my friend". |
10 |
| 19 | 109 |
"Three of you, by the beneficence of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, are to be extraordinarily privileged, are to be permitted, following appropriate ablutions and garmenting, to serve in the palace". |
10 |
| 20 | 11 |
Sumomo, in beautiful silks, a daughter of the shogun, knelt between Tajima and Pertinax. |
10 |
| 20 | 19 |
I suspected that the matter might not be as serious as Lord Yamada feared, and might require little more than some rearrangement of his plans, the ensconcement of a new spy, a fresh, suitable revelation for Daichi to find in his bones and shells, and such, but, as I knew the shogun, his displeasure ... |
10 |
| 20 | 32 |
Perhaps it was twofold, first, that her beauty and charm would add luster to the evening; and, second, that the categorical reversal of her fortune, perhaps suddenly manifested, would be found instructive by the guests, as they would then better understand the consequences of having failed the shogu... |
10 |
| 20 | 34 |
Perhaps it simply pleased the shogun, who was reputed to have a fondness for jests. |
10 |
| 20 | 123 |
He fears plans are in jeopardy, even that the role of Daichi in influencing the shogun might be suspected. |
10 |
| 20 | 169 |
"Poor fool," she said, "you would have aspired to the daughter of the Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 20 | 297 |
Indeed, Sumomo, in Tarncamp, in Shipcamp, on the great ship, and in the holding of Lord Temmu, though supposedly only a contract woman, had treated him with derision and contempt, rather as might have the daughter of a shogun mocked and scorned the attentions of a lowly armsman. |
10 |
| 20 | 333 |
She should not have spoken so, as she, even though a daughter of the shogun, was a female, and he was a male, and a daimyo. |
10 |
| 20 | 336 |
"He was uncommunicative?" inquired the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 348 |
Tajima then returned, and took his place, cross-legged, to the right of the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 349 |
"Did you enjoy the garden?" asked the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 352 |
"You did not stay long," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 362 |
The shogun looked out over the table, to the large, low, opened wall, beyond which lay the garden. |
10 |
| 20 | 368 |
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun, "variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. |
10 |
| 20 | 370 |
"You set a magnificent table," I said to the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 371 |
"I rejoice if my humble offerings please you," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 20 | 384 |
It is then my hope that the cavalry, in the light of the despicable treatment of their commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, betrayed into the hands of a putative enemy, but an actual friend, the dreadful perfidy of the house of Temmu, the righteousness of my cause, and the wisdom of an alliance, one bot... |
10 |
| 20 | 512 |
"Our new guests, the noble Tajima and the noble Pertinax, must make ready to return to the encampment of tarns," said Lord Yamada, "to convey my felicitations and suggestions to their fellows, but I think it is only fitting, first, to see if there might be some word to be conveyed to the false shogu... |
10 |
| 20 | 608 |
Take now your chains of gold and assure your compatriots of the cavalry that as much or more awaits them when they take to the saddle in the name of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 20 | 625 |
The shogun had indicated the corridor leading back into the palace. |
10 |
| 20 | 626 |
"Also," said the shogun, "I am aware that strong men have interests other than gold". |
10 |
| 20 | 630 |
"I am shogun," said Lord Yamada. |
10 |
| 20 | 632 |
"Demand two blankets," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 21 | 46 |
"He is shogun," said Haruki. |
10 |
| 21 | 48 |
"He is shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 21 | 59 |
The outraged shogun, believing himself crossed in this dire manner, and doubtless feeling humiliated and betrayed before the company, apparently in a moment's consternation and rage, answered the unwelcome reading with the precipitous retort of the companion sword. |
10 |
| 21 | 61 |
Surely, shortly thereafter, he had chided Lord Akio, when that noble person, presumably fearing for his shogun's life, had thrust his sleeve dagger into the neck of the assailant, severing the vertebrae at the base of the skull. |
10 |
| 21 | 158 |
"I am Sumomo," she said, "daughter of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 21 | 368 |
'I am Sumomo, daughter of the shogun!' I cried. |
10 |
| 21 | 423 |
"Why should he risk golden chains, and handsome prospective emoluments, not to speak of the wrath of the shogun?" "For what then?" she asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 428 |
"Such deaths," she said, "are inflicted only upon those with whom the shogun is muchly displeased". |
10 |
| 21 | 437 |
The contemptible Tajima, a lowly warrior, of no fine family, has dared to aspire to the hand of a shogun's daughter". |
10 |
| 21 | 499 |
"This is madness! This is unconscionable! Do you fools not know who I am?" "You are Lady Sumomo, daughter of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 21 | 511 |
"Displeased Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said the man. |
10 |
| 21 | 516 |
You were to be cast from the parapet at a time corresponding to your casting of the note below, but you were extracted from the holding of Lord Temmu, by Tyrtaios, that you be spared this fate, though only, I fear, to endure one more to the liking of the shogun". |
10 |
| 21 | 526 |
"I gather it is to be lengthy and exquisite, prolonged in such a manner as to satisfy the shogun. |
10 |
| 22 | 1 |
What Occurred During Tea with the Shogun "Great lord," I said to Lord Yamada, "I am come to beg the life of your daughter, Sumomo". |
10 |
| 23 | 5 |
He was standing, pinching off the tips of new branches on the Blue Climber, a vinelike plant with large blue bracts amongst its common leaves, and small yellow flowers, clinging to the railing of the small bridge in the shogun's garden. |
10 |
| 23 | 10 |
"Recently," I said, "an attempt was made on the life of the shogun". |
10 |
| 23 | 18 |
"It rained on the night of the attack on the shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 38 |
"It is interesting," I said, "that the attack on the shogun should coincide with the rain". |
10 |
| 23 | 66 |
"Would you care to explain to the shogun that you were unaware of its existence?" I asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 93 |
"You are a guest of the shogun," said Haruki. |
10 |
| 23 | 104 |
The shogun is massing troops, for an attack north". |
10 |
| 23 | 187 |
"She is the daughter of the shogun". |
10 |
| 23 | 212 |
"Someone must have secured, trained, and positioned the assailant who failed in the attack on the shogun's life," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 313 |
"Soon," he said, "when the daimyos are gathered, that they, and others, may take notice, and be apprised of the dangers of displeasing the shogun". |
10 |
| 24 | 11 |
"Indeed," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
"Why, Lord," I asked the shogun, "do you need a new gardener?" "As it is your habit, from time to time, to honor my humble garden with your presence, perhaps you know him". |
10 |
| 24 | 36 |
"I know you do," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 40 |
"Quite well," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 41 |
"Why, then," I asked, "do you need a new gardener?" "He is a thief," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
"There will be a feast in the outer courtyard," said an officer, "to celebrate the justice of the shogun". |
10 |
| 24 | 66 |
"I thought," said the shogun, "you aspired to the hand of the Lady Sumomo". |
10 |
| 24 | 71 |
"Please remain, dear friend," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 79 |
In settled times, a given daimyo, in his turn, will commonly spend half of the year in the palace, subject to the scrutiny of the shogun, and the other half in his own dominion, supervising his lands and retainers. |
10 |
| 24 | 81 |
Some others, I gathered, who might have been in attendance, had been released to their lands to marshal resources and men in anticipation of an impending campaign, and then, there, in their lands, to await the summons of the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 82 |
As I may have mentioned, the failure of a daimyo to respond to the shogun's summons is considered an act of treason, putting at risk his own life and those of others associated with him, his family, his high officers, and his loyal warriors, and would customarily involve, as a matter of course, the ... |
10 |
| 24 | 83 |
It might also be noted that while a daimyo is absent from the palace, it is often the case, though not always, that his wife and children will be guests of the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 87 |
"Indeed," agreed the shogun, once again, as pleasantly as before. |
10 |
| 24 | 113 |
"Such do the dark work of the shogun," said Lord Akio. |
10 |
| 24 | 116 |
"The killers, of course," said Lord Akio, "are known to the shogun". |
10 |
| 24 | 123 |
"But those who are loyal to the shogun need fear nothing". |
10 |
| 24 | 125 |
"Interesting," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 127 |
"But perhaps they conceal their caste," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 24 | 149 |
"I think their weight will be felt, dear friend," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 4 |
"Surely, in the mercy of the shogun," I said, "she has been administered an anodyne, a numbing salve, something to deaden pain?" "No," said Lord Akio. |
10 |
| 25 | 37 |
"You are shogun," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 41 |
"There are limits even to the power of the shogun". |
10 |
| 25 | 49 |
"I am shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 50 |
"Yes," I said, "you are shogun". |
10 |
| 25 | 148 |
Did they not know that she was a free woman, even the daughter of the shogun? They snarled and urged her forward, and brandished their glaives, impatiently, which movements could not be seen by the criminal, but were doubtless sensed. |
10 |
| 25 | 178 |
"Mercy!" "It seems she is frightened," said Lord Akio to the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 179 |
"I fear so," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 180 |
"But it is well known she is delicate, and sensitive, as a flower," said Lord Akio, possibly attempting to mitigate his former observation, lest the shogun be displeased. |
10 |
| 25 | 181 |
"She is weak," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 187 |
"Sometimes things do not turn out as one expects," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 189 |
"My plans were jeopardized," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 191 |
"I am shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 196 |
"Do not leave," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 197 |
"Proceed," said one of the two Ashigaru on the platform to the distraught criminal on the narrow wooden path, "lest the shogun become impatient". |
10 |
| 25 | 203 |
The other Ashigaru was looking down, toward us, presumably waiting to see if a small movement by the shogun, a nod, a lifted hand, a dismissive gesture, would signal that the criminal would be dislodged, to plunge to the pool below. |
10 |
| 25 | 204 |
To be sure, it was unlikely the shogun would do this, as it might too soon bring the business to its conclusion, prematurely terminating the tension, anticipation, and suspense which, one gathers, add much to the pleasures of the spectacle. |
10 |
| 25 | 205 |
In any event, the shogun remained attentive, but quiescent. |
10 |
| 25 | 260 |
Beside me, Lord Akio, the shogun, and nearby officers, rose up, ignoring what might be the compromise to their dignity, following my gaze. |
10 |
| 25 | 261 |
"It is an assassin!" cried Lord Akio, snapping open his war fan to shield the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 263 |
"It is a tarnsman, out for sport, out for chain luck!" The shogun, angrily, thrust aside the war fan. |
10 |
| 25 | 272 |
"Summon Tyrtaios!" called the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 277 |
"Tyrtaios to the saddle!" cried the shogun. |
10 |
| 25 | 287 |
Too, when Tajima had put her to her belly, flinging her to the saddle apron before him, holding her in place with his left hand, while grasping the tarn reins in his right hand, he had apparently given little thought to the modesty due to a shogun's daughter. |
10 |
| 26 | 2 |
"Have you not heard? The daughter of the shogun was carried away. |
10 |
| 26 | 6 |
"I bring the command of the shogun. |
10 |
| 26 | 10 |
"Those of the secret executioners of the shogun," said the guard, uncertainly. |
10 |
| 26 | 49 |
"And," I said, annoyed, lifting the glaive, "do you fear that I, a wearer of the mask, and he chosen to convey the command of the shogun, am incapable of managing a small herd of twenty tarsks, helpless and tied together?" "No, noble one," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 66 |
Surely I thought that I had long enough prevailed on the hospitality of the shogun, and might now, with good grace, take my leave. |
10 |
| 27 | 108 |
By now they might have been scattered about, transferred to any number of pens throughout the domain of Lord Yamada, where their labors might now be applied to the arrangement and care of the liquid meadows from which the shogun hoped to obtain his rice. |
10 |
| 27 | 109 |
Indeed, several might have been distributed amongst the shogun's daimyos, for diverse purposes, field slaves, slaves to a daimyo's wives, personal pleasure slaves to warriors, to officers, and even to the daimyo himself. |
10 |
| 28 | 13 |
"It is here, in such a village," said Haruki, "where the burdens of the shogun are most sorely felt, that we are least likely to be betrayed". |
10 |
| 28 | 34 |
With daring, and sustaining great risk, he fled with Sumomo, the shogun's daughter, rescuing her but a moment before she would have plunged into the pool of death eels". |
10 |
| 29 | 45 |
"How is it you are here?" I asked "One supposes for the same reason that you are here," said Tajima, "the need for shelter and food, for concealment, the desire for a refuge unlikely to be suspected, one not fond of the exactions of the shogun". |
10 |
| 29 | 144 |
"Yes," she said, "Sumomo, free woman, daughter of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands!" "Slaves," I said, "do not have names, unless it pleases masters to give them one". |
10 |
| 29 | 200 |
"You are the property of Tajima, officer in the tarn cavalry, liaison to the forces of Lord Nishida, daimyo to the shogun, Lord Temmu," I said. |
10 |
| 29 | 261 |
"You might be mistaken for Sumomo, the daughter of the shogun". |
10 |
| 29 | 262 |
"I am Sumomo," she said, "daughter of Yamada, Shogun of the Islands!" "You are no longer Sumomo," I informed her. |
10 |
| 29 | 334 |
On the other hand, it was clearly important that such evidence be destroyed, as it might link us, or the village, with a shogun's daughter. |
10 |
| 29 | 377 |
"You would use the daughter of the shogun for pleasure?" asked Haruki. |
10 |
| 29 | 390 |
"Perhaps the daughter of the shogun is stupid," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 30 | 16 |
"The shogun moves with deliberation". |
10 |
| 30 | 32 |
"The shogun marches against the lands of Temmu," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 30 | 37 |
"The shogun moves with the implacability of the seasons," said another. |
10 |
| 30 | 55 |
From whom more informed might we garner the intelligence we sought than from Ashigaru of the shogun himself? When three of them had spilled into the inn, Tajima had hailed them, greeted them like long lost brothers, and, to their pleasure, stood for several rounds of sake. |
10 |
| 30 | 69 |
"You are aware," he said, "that this village lies under the suzerainty of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 30 | 145 |
Accordingly, if he had ever seen the daughter of the shogun in the past, he might well have identified her. |
10 |
| 30 | 414 |
"Behold," proclaimed Tajima, looking down, pleased, upon his handiwork, "the daughter of Lord Yamada, supposed Shogun of the Islands, a slave, and the slave of Tajima, servitor to the daimyo, Lord Nishida of Nara, Tajima, officer in the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu, commanded by the warrior Tarl Cabot... |
10 |
| 30 | 478 |
"I am helpless, I am naked, I cannot resist! No! No! How dare you! I am the daughter of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands. |
10 |
| 30 | 511 |
"And perhaps when I was in the robes of a shogun's daughter?" she said. |
10 |
| 30 | 772 |
"The shogun always has a place for those who manage sharp swords well," said the voice. |
10 |
| 31 | 30 |
There is much rice, hard to obtain with the exactions of the shogun for pasangs about". |
10 |
| 31 | 56 |
Perhaps such reports, promulgated by such as you, mollify the shogun". |
10 |
| 31 | 65 |
"I am Yasushi, twenty-third constable of the march of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said the bound fellow next to Tajima. |
10 |
| 31 | 198 |
The shogun would have me bound, and caged with starving urts. |
10 |
| 31 | 212 |
You are to free me, and then you, and your band, are to return with me to the camp of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, to stand judgment". |
10 |
| 32 | 193 |
"Long ago," said Yasushi, "on the palace grounds of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands, I profited from the instruction of an itinerant master". |
10 |
| 33 | 12 |
"I am Kazumitsu," said he who seemed most prominent amongst the now visible participants in this recently concluded, small siege, "special officer to Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 33 | 31 |
"Consider warriors," said Haruki, "twenty, consider the absence of Ashigaru, consider one who leads, a special officer to the shogun". |
10 |
| 34 | 9 |
"The rider of a demon bird has visited a hundred villages, alerting them to watch for a tarnsman and Sumomo, the stolen daughter of the shogun". |
10 |
| 34 | 21 |
"The warrior," said Yasushi, "who is named Tajima, is ronin, and seeks to serve the shogun. |
10 |
| 34 | 22 |
He does not flee the shogun but has come far to serve him. |
10 |
| 34 | 24 |
The woman, whom I gather you have inspected, is scarcely a shogun's daughter. |
10 |
| 34 | 29 |
"Who would dare inflict on a shogun's daughter the degrading yoke of bondage?" asked Yasushi. |
10 |
| 34 | 39 |
But even if it is so, that these are the four you sought, of what interest or importance would they be, for anyone, a free warrior, zealous for a shogun's rice; a field slave; a foreigner, probably a deserter from the camp of Temmu; and a peasant?" "Why does Yasushi, a march constable, concern himse... |
10 |
| 34 | 48 |
"The shogun is not a patient man. |
10 |
| 34 | 56 |
In the morning, as a march constable, I shall petition an audience with the camp lord, second under the shogun himself. |
10 |
| 34 | 59 |
You may then see to the release of the prisoners, and let the warrior enlist his weaponry in the service of the shogun, and later marshal your men and resume your search". |
10 |
| 34 | 62 |
"What if it is Sumomo?" "Then," said Yasushi, "you will report to the shogun, your office well discharged, and accept his gratitude". |
10 |
| 34 | 70 |
"Perhaps the camp lord has never seen the gracious daughter of the great shogun". |
10 |
| 34 | 72 |
"He is an intimate of the shogun himself, and a daimyo who has been in frequent attendance in the palace. |
10 |
| 35 | 38 |
The tent of each daimyo lay near what would be the center of the wheel, the hub of which was occupied by the command tent of the shogun himself. |
10 |
| 35 | 41 |
I did not know if this apparent lack of care was a function of the distance from the lands of Temmu, a sense of the weakness of the forces of Temmu, or was merely to be attributed to the arrogance of a mighty shogun. |
10 |
| 35 | 51 |
I am the prisoner of Yasushi, Twenty-Third Constable of the march of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands". |
10 |
| 36 | 36 |
"It is well I did not approach the shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 36 | 41 |
She is a common field slave, and certainly not the gracious, exalted daughter of the shogun". |
10 |
| 36 | 50 |
"You, perceptive young warrior, will be soon fetched before an officer of the camp, to pledge your service to the shogun. |
10 |
| 36 | 64 |
"I must now resume my search for the mysterious tarnsman and the shogun's fair daughter". |
10 |
| 36 | 80 |
"Those two men," whispered Haruki, "are not men of the shogun. |
10 |
| 37 | 30 |
Surely the shogun would find that impressive". |
10 |
| 37 | 36 |
"I am also sure, of course," I said, "he would be willing, as would the shogun, to sacrifice her instantly for political reasons, but why do so, if there is no advantage in doing so?" "Where is she now?" asked Haruki. |
10 |
| 39 | 13 |
We were to rendezvous where I supposed we would be the least suspected, within sight of the high banner surmounting the command tent of the shogun himself, at the hub of the great wheel which constituted the camp. |
10 |
| 39 | 45 |
"He carried away the shogun's daughter". |
10 |
| 39 | 49 |
"The shogun's daughter?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 39 | 112 |
We think she is being held by Lord Akio, incommunicado, probably in some far, nondescript tent near the perimeter, far from the shogun's command tent and the compound of the camp lord, Lord Akio, most likely concealed amongst other slaves". |
10 |
| 40 | 84 |
"Lord Yamada," he said, "may not always be shogun". |
10 |
| 40 | 88 |
"It was regrettable," he said, "a sudden, thoughtless act, which, in the moment, I could not help, an act expressing my horror, my indignation, my outrage, at the attempt on the life of my beloved shogun". |
10 |
| 40 | 89 |
"That you did not immediately present Tajima, the tarnsman, to the shogun suggests you were holding him for a purpose, perhaps that he might later figure in a staged capture, redounding to your benefit. |
10 |
| 40 | 90 |
That you did not immediately return the shogun's daughter to him, and his justice, might serve a similar purpose, or perhaps, more likely, while it might be assumed or alleged that she had perished, she might be retained, her curves suggesting that she might prove of slave interest". |
10 |
| 40 | 136 |
We are to rendezvous with him, in the vicinity of the tent of the shogun". |
10 |
| 40 | 181 |
"Haruki should be in the vicinity of the shogun's tent," I said. |
10 |
| 42 | 71 |
Unbeknownst to her, she had been brought to Gor, requisitioned, for Lord Nishida, who wished to give such a woman, young, shapely, fairly complexioned, blond-haired, blue-eyed, and beautiful, as a gift to Lord Temmu, his shogun. |
10 |
| 42 | 89 |
"When recently in the tent of the camp lord," I said, "Lord Akio remarked that Lord Yamada may not always be shogun". |
10 |
| 42 | 95 |
"But Lord Yamada is his shogun," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 42 | 97 |
"The slaves, and the shogun's daughter, were all witness to this," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 42 | 104 |
In the event of Lord Yamada's demise I suspect that Lord Akio would be the presumptive shogun. |
10 |
| 42 | 168 |
The tent was a sales tent, though obviously it had been closed for sales, presumably to better conceal the shogun's daughter. |
10 |
| 43 | 59 |
Too, I supposed few would expect the shogun's daughter to be in this position of prominence, or, indeed, harnessed to a wagon at all, as a common slave, to be sure, the common slave she now was. |
10 |
| 44 | 182 |
"Hail to Lord Temmu, Shogun of the Islands!" cried an officer. |
10 |
| 46 | 15 |
These were employed variously, as traitors have their uses, particularly in missions Yamada did not care to entrust to Pani, whose primary loyalty might be to their daimyo and not to the shogun. |
10 |
| 46 | 29 |
It was called Chrysanthemum of the Shogun. |
10 |
| 46 | 87 |
"The shogun," he said. |
10 |
| 46 | 135 |
"I am Izo," said the skeptical officer, angrily, "of the guard of the shogun. |
10 |
| 46 | 138 |
"Do you call Izo, of the guard of the shogun, a liar?" asked the warrior, his hand on the tasseled hilt of his companion sword. |
10 |
| 46 | 249 |
"You have slain Izo," he said, "the finest sword in the shogun's guard". |
10 |
| 46 | 251 |
"I am Katsutoshi," he said, "captain of the shogun's guard". |
10 |
| 46 | 255 |
"Word of you has reached the shogun himself," said Katsutoshi. |
10 |
| 46 | 341 |
"Izo, sword of the shogun's guard," said Eito, the peasant, "slew four men of my village". |
10 |
| 47 | 60 |
"This, I take it," had said Lord Yamada, when we were brought, helpless, before him, "is the remarkable swordsman of whom you spoke?" "It is, Lord," said Katsutoshi, captain of the shogun's guard. |
10 |
| 47 | 61 |
"An unprepossessing fellow," had commented the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 72 |
The shogun does not cross swords with upstarts, vagabonds, mountebanks, magicians, common warriors". |
10 |
| 47 | 74 |
"Perhaps the shogun is afraid," I said. |
10 |
| 47 | 97 |
"Where is Sumomo?" asked the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 130 |
"Nor, I suspect," said the shogun, "the arrow". |
10 |
| 47 | 134 |
The shogun then turned, again, to me. |
10 |
| 47 | 147 |
We did not know, of course, at that time, if we would be called to the palace or not, and, if so, if we were to be allowed to approach the shogun, when that would be. |
10 |
| 47 | 238 |
"Do not!" I called to the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 240 |
The two unused bows and the nine unfired arrows were now beside the shogun, a little behind him, these brought by Ashigaru. |
10 |
| 47 | 252 |
The third bow, the shogun having advanced to the twenty-pace mark, was strung by the stout, brawny fellow. |
10 |
| 47 | 255 |
But the shogun's attention was on Nodachi, bound, hands free, the companion sword in hand, awaiting the tenth arrow. |
10 |
| 47 | 266 |
The final arrow, the twelfth arrow, was handed to him, and the shogun set it to the string. |
10 |
| 47 | 268 |
The shogun's hand trembled on the bow. |
10 |
| 47 | 270 |
It was difficult even for the shogun, with his considerable strength, to draw back that string. |
10 |
| 47 | 273 |
"Fire!" But the shogun was in no hurry to release the string. |
10 |
| 47 | 286 |
"You have done well," said the shogun to Nodachi. |
10 |
| 47 | 292 |
"Put ten men against me, or one hundred," called Nodachi to the shogun, "but be yourself, mighty lord, the last man in that line". |
10 |
| 47 | 293 |
"Stand aside, Captain," called the shogun to Katsutoshi. |
10 |
| 47 | 296 |
No command of a shogun is to be disregarded. |
10 |
| 47 | 297 |
"Think carefully before you approach, clever swordsman," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 303 |
"It is not seemly that the shogun should stain his sword with a blood less elevated than his own". |
10 |
| 47 | 306 |
"Would that I were not shogun," said Lord Yamada. |
10 |
| 47 | 307 |
"But you are shogun, Lord," said Katsutoshi. |
10 |
| 47 | 308 |
"Ela," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 310 |
"The shogun," said Katsutoshi, "has slain daimyos". |
10 |
| 47 | 311 |
"Surrender your sword," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 314 |
"Unwisely," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 316 |
"I am sure, great lord," said Katsutoshi, "from what I have seen in the town, Chrysanthemum of the Shogun, and here, that his skills would be remarkable". |
10 |
| 47 | 317 |
"Join my guard then, bold, outspoken swordsman," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 47 | 320 |
"To attack me," said the shogun, "is suicide, even if I do not draw my blade". |
10 |
| 47 | 325 |
"Then attend me well, fellow," said the shogun, "you who value your life so lightly, for on this day others, too, will die". |
10 |
| 47 | 331 |
"I am shogun," said Lord Yamada. |
10 |
| 47 | 332 |
"My sword," said Nodachi, bowing, and handing his sword, hilt first, to Katsutoshi, the captain of the shogun's guard. |
10 |
| 48 | 7 |
Four sat, cross-legged, about the inlaid, lacquered table, Tajima, Pertinax, the shogun, and I. |
10 |
| 48 | 9 |
"I wished to speak with you three," said the shogun, putting down his cup. |
10 |
| 48 | 20 |
"I trust so," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 48 | 43 |
In the humble gardener I sensed a nobility that would have graced a warrior, a daimyo, even a shogun. |
10 |
| 48 | 63 |
"I am cognizant of such possibilities," said the shogun. |
10 |
| 48 | 89 |
"We shall do so," I assured the shogun. |
10 |
| 48 | 90 |
"Meanwhile," said the shogun, "I trust you have all been well cared for". |
10 |
| 49 | 14 |
When I was conducted outside the room, as was the case for sharing tea with the shogun this afternoon, there were usually six Ashigaru in attendance. |
10 |
| 49 | 27 |
Also, given the shogun's likely sensitivity to such matters, I supposed he would have had the thoughtfulness to supply me with a barbarian, as my taste ran to such, and, presumably, in his thoughtfulness, one of unusual loveliness. |
10 |
| 49 | 59 |
I cast her a swift glance, enough to determine that the shogun had exquisite taste, and was generous. |
10 |
| 49 | 195 |
"I thought," said Pertinax, "your acceptance of a pleasure slave, one to grace your sleeping mat for the night, betokened a possible interest in colluding with the shogun". |
10 |
| 50 | 194 |
Please report as soon as possible to the shogun". |
10 |
| 50 | 205 |
"You and your fellow are commanded, are invited, rather, forgive me, into the presence of the shogun, to attend upon him as soon as possible". |
10 |
| 50 | 208 |
"We come from the dais of the shogun". |
10 |
| 50 | 212 |
"What does the shogun have in mind?" he asked. |
10 |
| 50 | 214 |
"We are not privy to the secrets of the shogun". |
10 |
| 50 | 215 |
"But you are authorized to convey the shogun's invitation?" he said. |
10 |
| 50 | 225 |
"Report to the shogun," I said, severely. |
10 |
| 52 | 96 |
"Surely, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Tajima, "we must not keep the shogun waiting". |
10 |
| 53 | 11 |
Would it not then be natural, almost immediately, to psychologically situate yourself in accord with the coercions of custom and familiarity? Though I knew myself in a small room, in the palace of an island shogun, I had much the sense of oneness with the enormous beast through whose eyes, so to spe... |
10 |
| 53 | 36 |
"I suspect," I said, "that this brief encounter, or something like it, that of dragon and shogun, would have been prearranged". |
10 |
| 54 | 9 |
As the iron dragon was in flight, it seemed all was well from his point of view, that of the self-proclaimed Shogun of the Islands. |
10 |
| 54 | 217 |
The shogun, Temmu, and his daimyos, Lords Nishida and Okimoto, predictably, had refused to evacuate the holding. |
10 |
| 54 | 240 |
"They are pledged to their daimyos," I said, "and their daimyos to the shogun". |
10 |
| 54 | 258 |
"And many who are less common," I said, "for example, high officers, even generals, even the shogun, Lord Temmu, and his daimyo, Lord Okimoto". |
10 |
| 55 | 162 |
"The palace is the seat of the shogun," said Nodachi. |
10 |
| 55 | 200 |
"It is the seat of the shogun," said Nodachi. |
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| 56 | 22 |
I am Lady Kameko, of the household of the shogun!" "You are a lure girl," I said, "with confederates". |
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| 56 | 28 |
"Lady Kameko, of the household of the shogun!" "Perhaps you are a mere contract woman," I said, "whose contract may change hands, and be bought and sold, much as though you might be a slave". |
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| 57 | 49 |
Daimyos deserted the shogun, withdrawing their men, hurrying to their own holdings. |
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| 57 | 158 |
Some, I supposed, might have feared to join the escape parties, risking the open country, and, surely, might not have anticipated the entry of peasantry into the august corridors of the shogun's palace. |
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| 57 | 180 |
"She is the daughter of the shogun". |
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| 57 | 222 |
"Let the shogun sit uneasy upon his dais," said Pertinax. |
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| 57 | 341 |
"And what sort of trophies might a daimyo or shogun, if he were so inclined, garner in such pursuits?" asked Tajima. |
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| 58 | 22 |
"Why," I asked, "do you think Lord Yamada is in the palace?" "He is shogun," said Nodachi. |
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| 58 | 209 |
The shogun might wish to view them from time to time, to display them to guests, and such". |
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| 58 | 257 |
"He is shogun". |
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| 58 | 260 |
"Lord Yamada is shogun," said Nodachi. |
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| 59 | 31 |
Katsutoshi, as I recalled, had identified himself as the captain of the shogun's guard. |
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| 59 | 57 |
"I am shogun," he said. |
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| 59 | 62 |
"I am shogun," he said. |
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| 59 | 65 |
"Yes," said the shogun. |
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| 59 | 113 |
Lord Yamada said something to Katsutoshi, who left the shogun's side, and shortly returned, carrying an object, wrapped in cloth. |
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| 59 | 114 |
She who had been the Lady Kameko raised her head to the shogun. |
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| 59 | 118 |
"Are you a slave?" asked the shogun. |
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| 59 | 127 |
"There are witnesses, of course," said the shogun. |
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| 59 | 130 |
The shogun then seized Kameko's long hair and, with a stroke or two of his blade, cut much of it away. |
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| 59 | 132 |
Katsutoshi slipped the cloth away, and handed the object to the shogun. |
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| 59 | 135 |
The shogun threw the tiny key to the floor before Pertinax, who retrieved it, and slipped it in his pouch. |
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| 59 | 139 |
"I trust," said the shogun, "you will see that she is suitably punished for attempting to escape, and for lying". |
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| 59 | 144 |
"And, my dear," said the shogun to the distraught slave, "I suspect it will be a long time before you are permitted clothing". |
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| 59 | 151 |
"Yasushi," said the shogun, resuming his sitting position, cross-legged, "kill the peasant". |
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| 59 | 155 |
"True," said the shogun. |
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| 59 | 160 |
I had no doubt as to the skills of Katsutoshi, were he the finest sword in the shogun's guard. |
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| 59 | 161 |
This distinction, I gathered, had become his following the demise of the warrior, Izo, in the market town, Chrysanthemum of the Shogun. |
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| 59 | 164 |
The shogun then indicated Nodachi. |
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| 59 | 166 |
Katsutoshi bowed to the shogun. |
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| 59 | 282 |
Why? Because he stood between him and Yamada, the shogun. |
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| 59 | 312 |
He bowed politely to the shogun. |
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| 59 | 314 |
"I," said the shogun, "did not come to the dais easily. |
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| 59 | 319 |
"You are not of my station, my level, my class," said the shogun. |
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| 59 | 321 |
"You are determined in this matter?" asked the shogun. |
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| 59 | 323 |
"Then," said the shogun, "let us repair to the garden". |
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| 60 | 20 |
"You are shogun," said Nodachi, "great and noble one". |
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| 60 | 39 |
"There is no trickery here," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 62 |
"A scratch, only," said the shogun, annoyed, a stain of blood discoloring his left sleeve, high on the arm. |
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| 60 | 76 |
"One intervenes, as one can," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 79 |
"He who is on the path to perfection is doomed," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 88 |
Clearly the shogun had launched that onslaught that it might constitute the bloody terminus of this strange, lengthy engagement. |
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| 60 | 94 |
I saw the shogun's blade slash down. |
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| 60 | 113 |
"Such cannot be of my blood," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 128 |
But he regarded Nodachi, unflinchingly, as shogun. |
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| 60 | 131 |
Haruki wildly rushed upon the shaken, inert shogun, and tore down his robe to the waist. |
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| 60 | 142 |
"Men pour in!" Visitors; A Plan is Formed It was not the men of Temmu who first burst through the gate, overcoming guards, but some thirty or forty soldiers, mostly officers, many of whom still wore the livery of the shogun. |
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| 60 | 146 |
"Word might have been brought to me," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 152 |
"You have come to die with me?" asked the shogun. |
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| 60 | 164 |
"You were apprehended," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 176 |
"I am as I am seen," said the shogun. |
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| 60 | 267 |
Who was I to dispute his decision? He was shogun. |
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| 60 | 325 |
I had seen the motion, the preparation before, the grace and power of that movement, long ago in the garden, when Lord Akio, forgoing a living target at my behest, as I was a guest of the shogun, had demonstrated the effectiveness of the war fan on a young tree, close by the side of the gardener, Ha... |
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| 60 | 333 |
"Who is your shogun?" said Lord Yamada. |
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| 60 | 343 |
"I have come to die with my shogun," he said. |
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| 60 | 351 |
I feared he might raise the fork against the shogun. |
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| 60 | 375 |
"I fear it will be but briefly held, great shogun," said Kazumitsu. |
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| 60 | 411 |
"You are in the presence of the shogun," I informed Arashi. |
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| 60 | 426 |
"To pledge to my shogun a thousand Ashigaru," said Arashi. |
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| 60 | 428 |
"Your crimes are no more," said the shogun, "but now return to your villages". |
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| 60 | 431 |
"We are your metal, great lord," said Arashi, "shape us into your tool of war!" There was acclamatory shouting from behind him, and it rang in the grounds of the shogun. |
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| 60 | 441 |
"You are shogun. |
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| 60 | 477 |
That is not the role of a shogun". |
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| 61 | 161 |
"The beast, Yamada, has no tarns!" The two tarns which had been at the disposal of Lord Yamada were no longer available to the shogun. |
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| 61 | 287 |
Katsutoshi, now training his left hand to wield the companion sword, remained the captain of the shogun's guard. |
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| 61 | 312 |
Neither the shogun nor any of his guards attempted to detain him. |
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| 61 | 425 |
Given the higher rank and the usual circumspection of Lord Okimoto, on which I had counted, I had managed to halt their march, at least temporarily, and purchase some days of truce, while messages were being exchanged between their road camp and the distant holding of the northern shogun. |
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| 61 | 444 |
"I am shogun". |
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| 61 | 464 |
"I could not give her to you without injuring my friend, Ichiro, and I cannot give her to Ichiro without displeasing my shogun. |
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| 61 | 470 |
"Be the wife of a great shogun," said Ichiro. |
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| 61 | 498 |
"No, great shogun," said Haruki. |
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| 61 | 501 |
"Let us inspect the state of the blue climbers," said the shogun. |
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| 61 | 541 |
"And commanded it," said Lord Okimoto, "subject, of course, to the will of the shogun". |
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| 61 | 555 |
"Unfortunately," said Lord Nishida, "the shogun now feels it is necessary to have recourse to such a regrettable mode of influence". |
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| 61 | 567 |
"I supposed her a favorite of the shogun". |
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| 61 | 964 |
It was supposed, accordingly, that she might constitute a charming, agreeable gift for a shogun. |
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| 61 | 1289 |
I looked up from the wharf to the lofty holding of the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
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