The events that changed the course of Japanese history. The Emperor of Japan is determined to recover at any price the power that the samurai snatched from his ancestors. However, the Hōjō clan attacks the imperial capital before the uprising. Outside the walls, a provincial landowner remains loyal to the emperor, who has been forced to take refuge in the fortress of the warrior monks of Kyoto, and his oath of loyalty is the last hope of the besieged. The Genkō war has begun. And while all these events shake the Holy Isles, a peasant boy continues his initiatory pilgrimage behind the shadow of a Zen monk. In this second installment of the epic saga Las Piedras de Chihaya, bloody samurai battles follow one another, as well as life in the first Japanese Zen communities, the secret activities of the ninjas and the struggle for freedom in a marked society. by custom and the strong ethical codes from birth to death. The end of the Kamakura era as never before had been narrated.