{"id":5173,"date":"2011-06-02T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?page_id=1194"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:52:00","slug":"historical-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/historical-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Fiction Reviews by Jonathan Dresner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magic Tree House, by Mary Pope Osborne<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2011\/06\/ninjas-at-night-dragons-at-dawn-magic-tree-house-does-japanese-history\/\">Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History<\/a>, 2 June 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Young Samurai, by Chris Bradford<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/05\/young-samurai-harry-potter-bushido\/\">Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido<\/a>, 29 May 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/08\/young-samurai-ii-a-bad-start\/\">Young Samurai II: A Bad Start<\/a>, 24 August 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/08\/young-samurai-the-way-of-the-sword-ancient-culture-modern-politics\/\"><em>Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword<\/em>: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics<\/a>, 30 August 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2011\/05\/young-samurai-way-of-the-dragon-and-the-battle-of-osaka\/\"><em>Young Samurai: Way of the Dragon<\/em> and the Battle of Osaka<\/a>, 29 May 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Samurai Detective, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/07\/judge-ookas-sidekick-a-samurai-never-fears-death-and-the-sword-that-cut-the-burning-grass-by-dorothy-thomas-hoobler\/\">Judge Ooka\u2019s Sidekick: <em>A Samurai Never Fears Death<\/em> and <em>The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass<\/em> by Dorothy &amp; Thomas Hoobler<\/a>, 3 July 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/07\/judge-ookas-sidekick-part-two-the-ghost-in-the-tokaido-inn-and-in-darkness-death\/\">Judge Ooka\u2019s Sidekick, part two: <em>The Ghost In the Tokaido Inn<\/em> and <em>In Darkness, Death<\/em><\/a>, 13 July 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/02\/the-teahouse-fire-painstaking\/\"><em>The Teahouse Fire<\/em>: Painstaking<\/a>, 11 February 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/04\/the-other-apprentice\/\">The Other Apprentice<\/a>, 3 April 2006.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2012\/08\/what-do-samurai-have-to-do-with-it\/\">What Do Samurai Have To Do With It?<\/a>. (John Manjiro), 9 August 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2013\/06\/modern-japan-in-anglophone-historical-fiction\/\">Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction<\/a>, ASPAC 2013, Monterey Institute of International Studies<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/2017\/05\/yi-soon-shin-warrior-and-defender-and-yi-soon-shin-fallen-avenger-bad\/\"><em>Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender<\/em> and <em>Yi Soon Shin: Fallen Avenger<\/em>: Bad<\/a>&#8221; 25 May 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic Tree House, by Mary Pope Osborne Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History, 2 June 2011 Young Samurai, by Chris Bradford Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido, 29 May 2009 Young Samurai II: A Bad Start, 24 August 2010 Young Samurai: The Way of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9yoH3-1lr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5173\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}