Samurai Awakening. Ben Martin

      Dedication

      To the people of Kitadaito Island, Japan

      and

      Gail Bernstein,

      the teacher who taught me to write.

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

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      Copyright © 2012 Benjamin Martin

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      The following is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual people or events is coincidental. Names belonging to people, real or otherwise, do not indicate implied or actual similarities. The Kojiki was first published in Japanese in the early eighth century.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data in process

      ISBN 978-1-4629-1034-2 (ebook)

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