Eventually, the boy works up from the stables to become one of the general's trusted samurai, and the book ends on something of a cliff-hanger after the famous battle of Nagashino. The character is the son of one of Uesugi Kenshin's samurai and is brought to work in the stables of a Takeda clan general following a battle. Events in the boy's life are set against and entwined with the historical background of the samurai of Kai province during the last years of Takeda Shingen's life, and so covers some of the same ground as the Kurosawa film Shadow Warrior. It is not really a coming-of-age story, but does trace the life of an orphan from a boy to a young adult. A Samurai's Tale is a juvenile novel that has the potential to please adults.
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