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[Machine Translation] Tachibana Chiyo, the only daughter of Toji Michiyuki, a vassal of Otomo Sorin and the most powerful general in the western provinces, was a manly woman and excelled in the martial arts from an early age. She succeeded her father as lord of a female castle and aspired to be the most powerful female warlord. However, she was begged by her childhood friend Tsunotora, the eldest son of Takahashi Shaoun, and decided to live as his wife. However, she and Tsunetora, the heir to the Tachibana family, are rumored to be at loggerheads because she has borne no children. In fact, Tsunotora knew that it was futile to love her, but he still loved her earnestly, and Chiyo desperately tried to respond to his love. This is a new frontier in historical fiction, depicting the life of the strongest and most beautiful female lord of a castle in the western part of Japan, who is shaken by the fact that she is a woman.

大友宗麟の家臣で西国最強の将、戸次道雪のひとり娘、立花〓千代は、幼い頃から男勝りで武芸に秀でていた。父の跡を継いで女城主となり、目指すは最強の女武将だったが、幼馴染の高橋紹運の嫡男、統虎に懇願され、妻として生きる覚悟を決める。だが、立花家を継いだ統虎とは子を生さぬゆえ、不仲がささやかれていた。実は統虎は、愛しても無駄だと知りながら、それでも妻をひたむきに愛し、〓千代も必死にそれに応えようとしたのだ―。自分が女であることに揺らぐ、西国一強く美しい女城主の生涯を描く、歴史小説の新境地。