Matari (or reissued as White Wind, Black Rider) is a book written by Luke Rhinehart, a pen name of George Cockcroft. Matari was published in the UK in 1975, and is currently out-of-print. It was published in the US under the name of White Wind, Black Rider (2002).
The story is set in 18th century Japan, and features a conflict between four very different characters - Oboko (nb, Ōbaku is a form of Zen), a poet of the wind and... meer