Publisher's Synopsis
Japan has always been a land considered mystical and special. Since the dawn of time, it has been inhabited by these ghosts, these spirits, these Kamis so dear to the Japanese people.
The oldest legends speak of gods, the Kamis, who came from the West and who visited them several times over time.
This island, Japan, has never been conquered in all of its history, but danger threatens these brave and dedicated people of the Kamis and a certain woman with a katana in her hand, the highly respected and revered Amaterasu.
Emissaries from the Mongol Empire were sent to Japan to demand its immediate submission. Japan is no match for the vast and disciplined Mongol armies and their fearsome generals. The Mongols were also technologically superior and developed the black powder that explodes the walls of stone fortress. No nation is like them. Korea, the powerful Song dynasty, all nations are swept away by these formidable Mongol armies.
From his magnificent palace in Beijing, Kublai Khan rules this vast empire with an iron fist, introducing paper money to promote trade throughout the empire, which prospers and trades with all the nations of the world. The empire is very rich.
But when the emissaries return to the palace without Japan's submission, Kublai Khan's anger is terrible. How dare this nation, made up of a few shoguns and samurai, challenge the vast army of the Empire? In 1281, a Mongol army of 180,000 soldiers and 5,000 ships arrived in Hakata Bay and prepared to conquer Japan, but could only muster 40,000 Japanese troops. Japan seems lost, the fight is totally unequal; a giant against an ant; Goliath versus David; ...but this was done without taking into account the mysticism that reigns over these archipelagos...
