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. 7

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421594137
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Ienobu's heir is still just a child, and with few official functions to perform, the men of the Inner Chamber find themselves with much time on their hands. Some find ways to make the most of their rare trips outside the palace, while others turn their minds to bloody intrigue... -- 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

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

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. 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

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.”

Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 8

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421594145
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
Yoshimune has secured her place in history as a cunning and capable ruler, but the time has come for her to officially declare an heir. Many in her court hope she will pass over her oafish older daughter Ieshige in favor of the urbane Munetake. Yoshimune has never been one to bow to convention, but this time the future of her country is at stake! -- VIZ Media

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