The coming of the bear

By Lensey Namioka

Subjects: Japan, fiction, Ainu, Samurai, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Samurai

Description: Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.