Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori, Book Three
Lian Hearn
Language: English
Pages: 346
ISBN: 1594480869
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Brilliance of the Moon is the third book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot and fortune, this third book in the Tales of the Otori series travels beyond the Three Countries, to the outside influences that threaten to intrude upon this isolated realm.
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Could get on a horse again. The full moon of the eleventh month came and went. Soon it would be the solstice and then the year would turn, the snows would come. My hand began to heal: The wide, ugly scar almost obliterated both the silvery mark, from the burn I received the day Shigeru saved my life, and the straight line of the Kikuta. Makoto sat with me day and night but said little to me. I felt he was keeping something from me and that Kenji also knew what it was. Once they brought Hiroshi.
She is more beautiful.” “That couldn’t be possible,” he said quickly, making her laugh. His face colored slightly. “Everyone says Lady Otori is the most beautiful woman in the Three Countries.” “What have they seen?” she retorted. “In the capital, in the emperor’s court, there are women so lovely men’s eyes shrivel up when they look at them. They are kept behind screens lest the whole court go blind.” “What do their husbands do?” he said doubtfully. “They have to wear blindfolds,” she teased,.
Able to look out on the landscape from behind the silk curtains and oiled paper screens that had enclosed her. Now she was able to absorb the beauty of the scenery, the richness of farmland and forest, the grandeur of the distant mountains, range after range, each slightly paler than the one in front, fading until they merged into the sky. No wonder Lord Fujiwara did not want to leave this beautiful place. His image, seductive and intriguing, rose before her eyes. She remembered how he had.
Had the months with Takeo. The thought of him now was so freshly painful, even with the calming tea, that she laid it away in the secret recesses of her heart, as hidden as the records of the Tribe in the Sacred Caves. She became aware that Rieko was studying her closely. She turned her face away and took another sip of tea. “Come, come, Lady Shirakawa,” Rieko said briskly. “You must not brood. You are about to make a brilliant marriage.” She came a little closer, shuffling forward on her.
And yours before noon!” We must have seemed a pitiful force to them. Their foot soldiers, overconfident, began to stream down the slope with their spears held ready. At once our bowmen let fly and the enemy ran into a hail of arrows. Their bowmen retaliated but we were still beyond their range, and our horsemen swept up through the foot soldiers and against the archers before they could set arrow to cord again. Then our foot soldiers surged forward and drove them back up the slope. I knew my.