Based on real characters and events, Storm Rider is a vivid
historical portrait of Japan and America in the mid-nineteenth
century, as well as an exciting high-seas adventure and a moving
story of a man lost between two cultures.
At the age of thirteen, Hikotaro is orphaned and left to a life at
sea. When the merchant vessel he sails on is caught in a violent
storm on the Pacific, an American ship comes to the rescue and
takes the young boy to San Francisco. With trepidation and hope,
the boy-now dubbed Hikozo-accepts his new country. Still, he dreams
of returning to Japan, but shogunate policy forbids reentry to
Japanese who have been abroad. He tries anyway, only to be refused
and returned to America, where a wealthy American adopts Hikozo and
introduces him to a world of influence and power. Some ten years
later, Hikozo returns to a Japan stirred into violence by the
opening of the country. At the same time, America is in the midst
of its bloody Civil War, and Hikozo finds that there is no place he
can call home.
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