Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven
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Plot Summary of Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven

"Kazunomiya, also known as Chikako to her friends, is a Chinese princess who lived in an Imperial Palace in 1858. She is in the midst of all the court ladies, her mom, the late emperor's favorite ningyo, her auntie, a good friend of her mother, and Lady Tomaki, the cousin of prince Arisugawa, the person Chikako is supposed to marry. Then there start to be problems between the Emperor, Chikako's brother, and the shogun, or warlord of China. They decide to have Chikako marry Yoshi, the soon to be shogun, in three years. Chikako is very unhappy about this because she liked Arisugawa, and so is Auntie, so they meet in secret at a sumo wrestling match. Then Auntie dies, which devastates Chikako. Also, the emperor likes Lady Tomaki, which makes the palace ladies jealous, so they drug Lady Tomaki and place her in a room with a sleeping drunk man to dishonor her, but Chikako and her servant girls brother remove the drunk man before anything bad happens. Chikako has to decide what she is going to do about her planned marriage to the shogun."
Cloud City, Resident Scholar

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 19th century
Life of a profession: - prince/nobleman/king/queen
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - Chinese
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 ()
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - China
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style: - written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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