Beautiful as the Rainbow

<p>Reared in a palace and educated at Gakushuin the elite Peers School Princess Masako was elegant refined and proper in all things royal and Japanese. She was also stunningly beautiful. It was therefore only natural that she was being groomed to be betrothed to a prince-no less than Crown Prince Hirohito the future Emperor of Japan.<p> <p>The rulers of the newly emerging Empire of the Sun however decided to offer the beautiful princess as a sacrifice on the altar of Japan's imperialism. She they conspired must marry Yi Eun the crown prince of Korea's Joseon Kingdom whose national independence they were strangulating with their conquest ambition. As Korea was forced to become a part of Japan so was Masako forced to become a part of Korea in order to symbolize the union of the two nations in mortal conflict.<p> <p>Like a fish in a net or a bird in a snare Princess Masako turned and twisted to live to be free and to be happy. Painfully aware that events in her life were beyond her control however she decided to accept her destiny. <p> <p>Even so the imposed destiny would not control her for she decided to become a heroine not a victim of her misfortunes driven by her passion for love life and happiness.<p> <p>Masako's story is about the human spirit empowering a victim of misfortunes and an unwanted destiny to become a hero transforming adversity into patches of paradise as beautiful as the rainbow.<p>