Foreword by the author. Dear readers! You have opened the third book in the Sengoku Jidai series. The Age of the Warring States." All three novels are written in the alternative history genre. And they are dedicated to Japan, or rather, what would have happened to this island state if our contemporary had gone there in 1538. Don't expect 100% authenticity from my works. I deliberately shifted some events in time (for example, the year of the “discovery” of Japan by the Portuguese, the conquest of China by the Manchus and Spaniards of the Incas and Aztecs), moved some locations in space, lied a little with some names and legends, shuffled historical characters slightly, but otherwise I promise it will be interesting. Geisha, samurai, sushi, sumo, in general, the full Japanese set.