Before the Dawn
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Shimazaki Toson's most famous historical novel Before the Dawn (夜明け前, Yoakemae) was published in segments from 1929 to 1935. The novel portrays the turbulent story of the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, an event started by the arrival of Commodore Perry's ships, and the early years of the Meiji Restoration and Westernization in Japan.
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- Before the Dawn, transl. by William E. Naff, University of Hawaii Press, April 1987, 798 pages, ISBN 0-8248-0914-9
