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War and Peace is a sweeping historical novel set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars

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and sculpture created expressly under the patronage of Iemitsu at three major monuments: the castles at Nijo and Nagoya and the sumptuous decoration of the great Tokugawa mausoleum

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