WABI-SABI! SHINGON BUDDHISM! KANGAKU! NEO-CONFUCIANISM! TENKA AND CHEONHA! PARK CHUNG-HEE! TURTLESHIPS! MIMIZUKA! JAEBEOL!
Love the Orient? Never heard of these words? Then this is the book for you!
Set during the Imjin War of 1592, 'TE NINDEN' takes place in a time when hordes of samurai rampage across Joseon Korea. Despite the victories of the Japanese warlord Taiko-sama, ninja master Ryo Uguisu witnesses a different type of war dominated by Korea on the seas. Trained in the Korean language, and charmed by Joseon’s luxuries, Ryo decides to defect from the Japanese army by disguising himself as a Korean. After dragging his birdwatching companion, a Korean-inarticulate blind martial artist, into his scheme, Ryo finds that the Korean and Japanese cultures aren’t all that similar.
Join Ryo in his quest to learn of Korea and its Neo-Confucianist Joseon Dynasty -- which shall be taught by a paranoid militant buddhist monk, a cowardly Korean statesman aiming to appease Japan’s jul, Hongkongers obsessed with cricket fighting, an overly competitive taekwondo champion, Portuguese missionary-salesmen, shamanistic prophecies, and those crazy wabi-sabi loving samurai!
https://www.amazon.com/Te-Ninden-Wan-Cheung-Yi-ebook/dp/B01FGXTQ0U