Jonelle Patrick is a graduate of Stanford University and the Sendagaya Japanese Language Institute. She first moved to Tokyo in 2003, and now splits her time between San Francisco and Tokyo. Since then, she has authored five novels based in Japan, and continues to write about Japanese culture.
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It's the year 1784 and the shogun rules with an iron fist . . . except within the walled pleasure quarter of Yoshiwara. Inside the Great Gate, samurai law does not apply, and it's women who pull the strings. Magistrates bow to courtesans, prostitutes... SEE MORE