The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Difference between revisions

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The titular character. Contrasted with several other characters in the book. Also applies to Aibagawa when she {{spoiler|has a chance to escape Shiranui shrine, but goes back for the sake of Yayoi and her twins}}

* [[Indy Ploy]]: Jacob towards the end has to rely on these.

* [[Out-Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|Ogawa}}.

* {{spoiler|[[People Farms]]}}

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: {{spoiler|The magistrate Shiriyama}} says this to {{spoiler|Enomoto}} as they're both dying.

* [[Touch of Death]]: {{spoiler|Enomoto}} has the unnerving ability to remove the "ki" from lesser creatures, effectively killing them instantly.

* [[The Verse]]: A subtle, easily-missed example-- the minor character Satsuki Miyake mentions that she hails from the small island of Yakushima, hinting that she's a distant ancestor of Eiji Miyake, the protagonist of Mitchell's 2001 novel ''number9dream'', who also comes from Yakushima.