In one of the stranger episodes of my sad, sad life, I was asked to review one of Eaton's "Japan"-themed novels for a feminist literary magazine. They very seriously (and politely) asked me to concentrate on how Eaton was able to explore diverse social issues and exploit Oriental fantasies.
Ah, but I am weak, and could not get past page five.

Given the pretend-Japanese pen name and all, it certainly can't be denied that she was exploiting an Orientalist fantasy or two. I would be interested to learn to what extent she believed her own hype. Also whether the Shogun Lyesade came to Japan down the Silk Road from Greece or something.

wtf. It's almost as if she used a machine translator (y'know, cuz Google translate existed back then) to translate English into Japanese, then back again...and added some terrible "accent."

Quality. This pic should be used for the upcoming Shamisen Hero game.

Yeah, it's definitely crying out to be some kind of skin.