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Your chance to win signed copies of ‘The Shogun’s Queen’ – Lesley Downer’s acclaimed new Japanese novel!
21st November 2016
This month we have a fabulous first prize – and two great runner up prizes – in our competition. The first prize is a hard-backed signed copy of The Shogun’s Queen, Lesley Downer’s acclaimed new Japanese historical novel, plus a geisha’s bag, plus an adult colouring-in book of 100 exquisite Japanese designs. The two runner up prizes are hard-backed signed copies of the same book.
Lesley’s signature over the Shogun’s gold seal on the first page of your prize!
The Shogun’s Queen is the 1850s story of a young woman from the backwaters of Satsuma. She is given by her father as a daughter to a noble Lord, and then groomed to become the wife of the current Shogun. She is clever and politically successful. ‘A clever woman never lets a man know how clever she is…’
This is a beautiful story, rich in period detail, and set against the backdrop of the country. It is meticulously researched, and an essential accompaniment for any trip to Japan. Read more about the book on this link.
To enter the competition all you have to do is write in the Comments Box below the name of the one Japanese city you would most like to visit. It’s that easy!
The competition close at midnight UK time on Tuesday 29th November, and the winner will be the first name out of the hat on Wednesday 30th…
The best of luck!
The TripFiction Team
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Thank you so much, Still can’t believe I am one of the lucky winners.
The winner of the competition is Kate Frost, and the two runners up are Simon Dodd and Jessica.
Congratulations to all!
I’d like to visit Beppu on Kyushu, to see the jigoku!
Tokyo the hustle and bustle
Tokyo
Tokyo definitely!
I would love to experience a tea ceremony in a pavilion in Kyoto during the cherry blossom festival, it’s been a great source of inspiration for many of my drawings & paintings but my only research source is photographs from the Internet. I hope to experience it myself one day. All those colours & history.
I would love to visit Sapporo and take my teenage son who is obsessed with anything to do with manga x
I would love to visit Japan, I’m a bead artist and use wonderful Japanese beads in my work. I’d love to visit the Miyuki bead factory in Hiroshima ….also Kyoto and Tokyo of course!
Hiroshima for me please
Would love to visit Tokoyo and Kyoto. Love Japanese art and food.
Would love to visit Kyoto and Tokoyo
Takayama it is for me.
I would visit Kyoto at cherry blossom time.
Kyoto
Kyoto to see the stunning cherry blossom treees
I’d love to visit Tokyo 🙂
I’m another one for Kyoto and its cherry blossom trees. 🙂
I’d love to visit Kyoto.
Ooooh let me think….Kyoto I reckon! Thanks for a great competition 🙂
I would love to see Kobe to visit the shrine where a great uncle’s remains are located.
Tokyo
Takamatsu 😀
I would love to take my 12 year old to Tokyo. She is currently learning Japanese at school and is obsessed byt all things Japanese.I was lucky enough to spend a year in Yokohama in the late eighties and she is jealous!
I would love to visit Kyoto -preferably when the cherry blossom is in flower.
Id love to visit Kyoto especially at a time when the leaves are at their most glorious reds and browns.
I would like to visit Tokyo!
I would like to visit Takayama as it is surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the northern Alps and is a traditional town with a charming old-world atmosphere and fine Edo-period architecture. Friends have visited and said all of Japan was wonderful.
I would love to visit Tokyo.
I have to agree with Claire above – Kyoto during cherry blossom season!
Kyoto, during cherry blossom season! 🙂
Kyoto – we were lucky enough to visit there last year and it was a great city – wonderful temples, fascinating culture in the Geiko area, an amazing food market, friendly people and fabulous restaurants. If I could only go one place in Japan ever again, kyoto would be it.
I would love to see Kyoto
Tokyo
I would love to visit Kyoto.
I would love to visit Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, I think it looks amazing and would be a once in a lifetime experience
Osaka
Tokyo
I’d like to visit Kyoto.
Sapporo – we “did” parts of the south this year, now I’d like to see the North.
Kyoto, mainly for one of the world’s best bookshop there! Keibunsya
All those cities where I can be surrounded by the beautiful Cherry blossom trees.
Got to be Tokyo
I would love to visit Sapporo in the far North of Japan to see the lit-up ice sculptures during the yuki-matsuri snow festival.
I would like to visit the art city of Naoshima.
I want to visit Takayama!
I would love to visit Kyoto.