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Imagine a world with a history different from our own. It is a world in which the Renaissance happened in 1403, in Japan, and not in Italy. After a bloody revolution, Emperor Go-Hozo claimed the throne of Shogun after achieving enlightenment in a Zen Buddhist monastery. His teachings inspire a golden age of Zen throughout Japan, an interest in Taoism and the rediscovery of Chinese alchemy.