Queen Eda
by H
About This Novel
"Queen Oda" is a full-length historical novel written by Yasushi Inoue, a giant of Japanese literature in the 20th century. This work is translated and published for the first time. This is also a historical novel written by Yasushi Inoue, following "Yang Guifei", which was set in the eighth-century Tang Dynasty palace. It is set in the seventh-century Japanese palace and features a legendary Japanese aristocratic woman as the protagonist. Queen Oda, the only waka composer in the "Man'yoshu", Japan's earliest poetry collection, not only left behind twelve waka that have been praised for thousands of years, but also had a tortuous life, and had touching romances with two princes of the Yamato court. These two princes were the later Emperors Tenchi and Tenmu. Dahua reform, dispatching envoys to the Tang Dynasty, moving the capital several times, sending troops to the peninsula, defeating the Baicunjiang River, and the Renshen Rebellion, the historical trend is rolling forward. The life experience of Queen Etian, like Concubine Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty who lived slightly later than her, has aroused endless reveries in later generations.
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