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The Last Concubine

The Last Concubine

The Last Concubine

14th April 2015 by Lesley Downer

How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it?  The Last Concubine is an epic love story closely based on historical events, chronicling nineteenth-century Japan’s extraordinary change from a medieval to a modern country.  This is the story of a shogun, a princess and the three thousand women of the women’s palace – all of whom really existed – and of the civil war that brought their way of life to an end.

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