A review by spb3
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan by Eiji Yoshikawa

5.0

I took this book slowly, reading short pieces at a time. Nearly 1000 pages later, I am left with a satisfaction that few works of historical fiction give. True, Taiko is no Musashi, but it is a masterful novel with an inspiring story nonetheless. Yoshikawa is one of the great historical-fiction novelists of the twentieth century and should be more widely read.