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A JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY IS SERIOUS BUSINESS... —...an art form that is at the heart of Japanese culture and performed with delicate reverence. So when Superintendent Otami and his wife receive an unexpected invitation to attend a tea ceremony at one of the most prominent schools in Japan, it is an honor they look forward to with excitement....The proceedings, presided over by the Seventeenth Hereditary Grand Master of the Southern School, begin with the expected proper decorum. But there is a radical departure from tradition when the Grand Master keels over with a bullet in his head.As Otani and his assistants soon discover, the late Grand Master had quite a few enemies and not a few dark secrets hidden away, secrets that reach the highest echelons of modern Japan itself....