Harukanaru Yamato Jo (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Carrying the expectations of Prince Shotoku, who was promoting reforms at the Yamato Imperial Court, foreign students Gengri Takamukai and Binan Nanbuchi joined the Sui Dynasty envoys and received secret orders from the ambassador, Imoko Ono, in the Sui Dynasty capital. They were assigned to investigate the whereabouts of the Sui Dynasty's official document, which had been stolen from the Sui Dynasty by the Sui Dynasty emperor, after its interpreter, Anzakuyoshi, went missing. In the Sui Dynasty, where preparations for the invasion of the Goguryeo Dynasty were in full swing, they found the exhausted reality of the empire. Who took the Kokusho and why? This is the birth of a completely new historical novel that vividly depicts ancient Japan from an East Asian perspective.

大和朝廷で改革を進める聖徳太子の期待を背負い、遣隋使に加わった留学生・高向玄理と南淵請安は、隋都で大使・小野妹子から密命を受ける。通事(通訳)・鞍作福利が、奪われた隋帝の国書を追って失踪したため、その行方を探ることになったのだ。高句麗侵略の準備に騒然とする隋で2人が見たのは、帝国の疲弊した現実だった。国書は誰に、なぜ奪われたのか?東アジアの視点から古代日本を活写する、全く新しい歴史小説の誕生。