Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1

by Fumi Yoshinaga, Fumi Yoshinaga (Illustrator)

Overview

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...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421593845
Publisher:	VIZ Media LLC
Publication date:	11/15/2016
Series:	Ôoku: The Inner Chambers Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	207
Sales rank:	332,977
File size:	99 MB
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About the Author

Fumi Yoshinaga is a Tokyo-born manga creator who debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to Sandaru (The Moon and the Sandals). Yoshinaga has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for Ôoku, the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for her series Antique Bakery, and the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Ôoku. She was also nominated for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist.