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Namioka's first love is reading and writing adventure stories. As a child, she read Chinese martial arts novels, as well as Sherlock Homles stories and The Three Musketeers. At the age of eight, she wrote her first book on pieces of scrap paper that she sewed together with thread. It was about a woman warrior called the Princess with a Bamboo Sword. In the 1970's, on a visit to Japan, Namioka visited Namioka Castle. The experience inspired her to learn more about the Samurai. This study culminated in The Samurai and the Long-Nosed Devils, which was published in 1976. Namioka expanded this book into a whole series of books about Samurai in sixteenth-century Japan.
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