¡KOSHI No Kuchu Kyokugei / Hara Title : L'acrobatie Aerienne De Confucius
¡Dai Shi Jie Nijima Susumu Yamamoto Takeo
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[Machine Translation] In 16th century China, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor Zhengde, fearing assassination, had four shadow warriors with him at all times. They were known as the "five-foil sovereigns" and were perfect duplicates of the emperor, so much so that even the empress and her entourage could not tell them apart. One day, the emperor's favorite astronomer discovered a new star. According to the scholar, this star indicated the omen of the country's doom. The emperor decides to follow the lead of his predecessors and leave the capital to await the disappearance of the evil star, and sets off on a hunting trip to the south. On board the gigantic ship carrying the emperor and his five cardinals, there was a reproduction of a colorful town with 300 courtesans as prostitutes, and along the way, a strange act called "Confucius' aerial acrobatics" was being performed. Is it the emperor who is performing these acts, or is he a shadow of himself? The author, a Chinese writer living in Paris, depicts the life of the 11th emperor, who is said to have contributed to the downfall of the Ming Dynasty, with a mixture of fiction and fact.
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