Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421594080
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Curious about why female lords must take on male names, the shogun Yoshimune seeks out the ancient scribe Murase and his archives of the last eighty years of the Inner Chambers--called the Chronicle of the Dying Day. In its pages Yoshimune discovers the coming of the Redface Pox, the death of the last male shogun, and the birth of the new Japan... -- VIZ Media

Ooku

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781448716548
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun's Inner Chamber"--Page 4 of cover.

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 19

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 197473174X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The new government of Japan is determined to not only end the reign of the shoguns but erase any mention of the generations of women who once ruled the country. Try as they might to rewrite history, though, they cannot erase the memories of those who served in the Ōoku... -- VIZ Media

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 15

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 197471151X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Taneatsu’s shogun Iesada has died, but unlike previous bereaved consorts, he has been denied the refuge of taking Buddhist vows. Stuck in the Inner Chambers, he has instead thrown himself into supporting the new shogun, Iemochi. But salacious rumors about the nature of their relationship and the arrival of Iemochi’s new consort threaten to make a mockery of his noble intentions! -- VIZ Media

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 14

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974707644
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
With the death of her monstrous father, Iesada is finally assured that she can have a consort who will survive life in the Inner Chambers. And she is delighted that the new spouse chosen for her is intelligent, kind and considerate of her past trauma. But the consort Taneatsu comes to the court with a past of his own—and an assignment from his liege lord that could pit him against his beloved shogun. -- VIZ Media

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 142159384X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber... -- VIZ Media

Not Love But Delicious Foods

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: Yen Press
ISBN: 9780759531871
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There is a Japanese saying that goes, "Hana yori dango," or "dumplings over flowers." And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal cycle of deadlines and being dead to the world? Food. As Y-naga and her friends visit restaurants around Tokyo to satisfy their appetites, their individual approaches to food add an extra dimension to their witty and comical interactions. Friendships are explored and lifestyle choices revealed, all over exquisite culinary creations that prove that variety on an empty and open-minded stomach is, indeed, the spice of life. Acclaimed mangaka and Eisner Award nominee Fumi Yoshinaga (Antique Bakery, Ooku) brings a quirky cast of characters and a delectable assortment of actual Tokyo restaurants to life in this homage to two of the greatest things life has to offer: friendship and food!

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421536699
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a woman...and the harem is full of men. Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for M audiences. Gyokuei, who first arrived at the Inner Chambers as a young novitiate monk, has risen to become one of the Shogun Tsunayoshi’s advisors. He hopes to protect the shogunate the same way his mentor Arikoto once did. But the numerous intrigue of the Inner Chambers—and the shogun herself—are pushing Gyokuei’s patience and cunning to the breaking point.

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 16

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974715809
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Young Iemochi’s new consort harbors a secret so scandalous that the shogunate must become involved in the deception or risk a further erosion of power. And with the dual threats of foreign incursion and imperial obstruction, Iemochi and her closest advisers have no choice but to play the dangerous new game set before them. -- VIZ Media

Mechademia 10

Author: Frenchy Lunning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452949840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11—the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises—and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken Japan. Because anime and manga have long proposed (and illustrated) alternative worlds—some created after catastrophes—it is fitting that this volume should consider this propensity for “world renewal.” Individual essays range widely, from a poetic and personal reflection on the ritual of tôrô nagashi (the lighting of floating paper lanterns that has traditionally commemorated souls lost in great public cataclysms, such as war) to a study of the various counterfactual histories written about the historical figure of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a former peasant farmer who became a military dictator of feudal Japan. The book also includes an original manga, Nanohana, from the popular artist Hagio Moto, who is quoted as saying: “I want to think together with everyone else about Fukushima and Chernobyl, about the future of the Earth, about the future of humankind, and to keep thinking moving forward.”