His Name is Junsaku

Duty was his life until she arrived in Japan.
Step into 17th-century Japan, where honour and loyalty are code.
Junsaku Aoyama, driven by an unshakeable belief in his destiny, is determined to become Japan’s greatest samurai. However, when a foreign woman arrives on a Dutch merchant ship, she awakens emotions in him that he never knew he could feel and desires that threaten to alter the course of his life.
Caught between his loyalty to his country and his love for his family, Junsaku must navigate the treacherous waters of honour and duty even as a mysterious ghost draped in black warns him that his path ahead will require more than just the skill of a blade.