His Name is Junsaku by Tenkara Smart
Junsaku Aoyama, a samurai warrior living in 17th-century Japan, has had one desire since childhood: to be Japan’s greatest warrior. After years of excelling in martial arts, Junsaku achieves a general rank in the shogun’s army at only twenty years old, the youngest in Japan’s history, dedicating his life to serving the shogunate. Junsaku, a proclaimed bachelor, never imagines he will marry until he meets a Lithuanian woman named Cecelia, who travels to Japan with her father on a Dutch merchant ship. Despite the challenges of marrying a foreigner, Junsaku marries Cecelia. They have a family, including a daughter, Fukano, who Junsaku teaches to be an excellent martial artist despite Japan’s ban on women practising the arts. For most of his adult life, a ghost cloaked in black haunts Junsaku and delivers ominous warnings to him, which he ignores. Junsaku struggles to balance his love for his family with his loyalty to the shogunate, and even the warnings from the ghost may not be enough to save what he holds most dear.
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After leaving her role as vice president for a major U.S. running retailer, Tenkara moved with her husband to Qatar before moving to Australia where she now resides. With two novels and a screenplay completed as part of her series titled The Many Lives of Wolf, Tenkara loves to spend her time writing and travelling, especially to Japan, a country and culture that makes her soul feel at home.