book cover of The Coming of the Bear
 

The Coming of the Bear

(1992)
(A book in the Zenta and Matsuzo Samurai series)
A novel by

 
 
Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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