A disgraced outcast samurai living in early seventeenth-century Manila, Kitazume is contemplating ritual suicide when a divine force (of a sort) intervenes: Luis, a rogue Jesuit priest and Kitazume's longtime friend. At Luis's insistence, the samurai agrees to help smuggle a Manchu princess to Mexico. But little does he know that he's really been

Disgraced outcast samurai lived in the early seventeenth century Manila, Kitazume examines ritual suicide when divine power (of a sort) interferes Louis, rogue Jesuit priest and an old friend in Kitazume. At the insistence of Louis, samurai agrees to help smuggle Manchu princess in Mexico. But he had to know that he actually were involved in an