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Brief Description:
Originally published in Japanese by Hakusensha, Inc., Tokyo.
Biographical Note:
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.
Marc Notes:
First published in Japan in 2010 by Hakusensha, Inc., Tokyo--Colophon.; Parental advisory, explicit content--Cover.; In keeping with the original Japanese format, this book reads right-to-left, and back-to-front.; The aging Shogun Tsunayoshi must name an heir, but her senile father is blocking the ascendance of the most likely candidate in favor of a young, untried lord. But politics and the Shogun's own unpopularity may soon take the choice out of her hands.; 8; Rated M for mature.; Translated from the Japanese.
Publisher Marketing:
In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga's alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power--including the shogun's seat!
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...
The aging shogun Tsunayoshi must name an heir, but her senile father is blocking the ascendance of the most likely candidate in favor of a young, untried lord. But politics and the shogun's own unpopularity may soon take the choice out of her hands.
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