A beautiful woman's coincidence

Japanese: 佳人之奇遇 - かじんのきぐう

Tokai Sanshi's full-length novels. Eight stories. Published intermittently between 1885 and 1897. The novel features Tokai Sanshi, who also deeply regrets the fate of the former Aizu clan, alongside a beautiful woman who takes part in the Irish independence movement and a surviving retainer of the Ming Dynasty in China, all of whom are people who have lost their homelands. The novel unfolds a turbulent romance while revealing the author's political ideas. The motif of telling the story of Japan's crisis through the history of countries lost around the world is also compelling, making it one of the masterpieces of early Meiji political novels.

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Japanese:

東海散士の長編小説。8編。 1885年から 97年にかけて断続して発表された。アイルランドの独立運動に挺身する美女や中国明朝の遺臣など，いずれも祖国を失った亡国の民に，同じく旧会津藩の運命を痛恨する東海散士を配し，波乱のロマンを展開しながら作者の政治思想を吐露する。世界の亡国の歴史に託して日本の危機を語るというモチーフも切実で，明治初期政治小説の代表作の一つ。

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