Description
In Fumi Yoshinaga’s Eisner-nominated alternative history of Edo-era Japan, a strange disease called the Redface Pox is killing the country’s men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent, and women have assumed traditionally male roles, including that of the shogun. Men, now precious providers of life, are carefully protected, while the most beautiful are sent to serve in the shogun’s Inner Chamber. Gyokuei, who first arrived there as a young novice monk, has risen to become one of Shogun Tsunayoshi’s advisors. Hoping to protect the shogunate as his mentor Arikoto once did, he faces the numerous intrigues of the Inner Chamber and the shogun herself, which push his patience and cunning to the breaking point.
Information
Author: Yoshinaga Fumi
Language: English
Publication date: December 21, 2010
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Manga in english
Type: Books - paperback
ISBN/EAN: 9781421536699