Emperor Yasuhito Chapter Summaries

In this book there are two hundred and eight pages. This book, that is sitting next to me at the time of writing this, took me a couple of hours to read probably about two hours maybe a bit more not that much time compared to some books that I’ve read, might have dragged those out or just didn’t buckle down and start reading like I did with this book. This book was about a Japanese samurai who had to help someone who didn’t realize their purpose and with that in mind I learned that sometimes people need a push to figure out what to do in life; also, there were many facts in this book that are about Japan that I didn’t know like that the emperor can resign and the emperor and his grandfather that are in this book are actual people that lived and …show more content…
(Page 209 Author’s Note) Also apparently many of the people and also some of the events that are mentioned in this book are purported to have happened in the history of Japan which is interesting that the authors of this book actually incorporated some nonfiction into it. The main theme is sometimes you don’t realize who you are until someone helps you find you and examples include when Yasuhito didn’t think he was emperor because Amaterasu, a goddess from Japanese mythology, didn’t visit him during his ceremony to become emperor, but Seikei and his grandfather in the end convinced him that he is indeed the emperor. I think teenagers and older are supposed to read this book because 1) It has big words and words in another language that little kids wouldn’t understand; they also wouldn’t understand why some of the people in the book do the things that they do like when Yabuta told Ponzu to rebel against the shogun and stuff like that. 2) This book’s theme, at least what I think is the theme, is sometimes you need people to help you find who you are and teenagers and adults sometimes get “lost” and need other people to help