The Soldier and the Samurai

This book chronicles the fictional adventures of Shinsengumi 10th Captain Harada Sanosuke who reappears in Manchuria during the First Sino-Japan War 28 years after his alleged death in the Battle of Uneo. It is told from the perspective of the American born grandson of a former Imperial Japanese Soldier who claimed to have been saved by a mysterious elderly Japanese man claiming to be the famous lost Samurai.