In a different world where Japanese culture kept its ground to this day . A female entertainer typical to Japanese traditional customs, finds herself swept into the world oh so familiar, and yet so different...

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale ...

Cheon Gwan Nyeo is the royal gisaeng (geisha) of King Jin-Pyeong, who lived in the Shilla era. However, the poetic general Kim Yoo Shin falls in love with her. Original Webtoon: Naver Series, Ridibooks

I want to paint it red. Gengenji. A beautifully portrayed story about how emotion can truly warp one's true desires, and the lengths that they're willing to take to control them.

Tsurugi Shouichirou is the proprietor of a well-established, upscale miso shop. But he's best known for being a prodigal son and a "Jack-of-all-trades, master of none." Much to his well-wishers' dismay, Shou...

The moment Satori Iwashita laid eyes on a mysterious kimono-clad beauty who appeared at the coffee shop where she works part-time, she fell in love with it. At that moment, the kimono-clad beauty asked Sator...

"You're practically overflowing... See? You're dripping all over my fingers." The man of her dreams is a different man in bed...! Koharu Kinoshita is an editor, whose skills in the classical Japanese arts l...

In Kyoto, Suzuka grew up as a child picked up by the Gion house. My job as a maiko is not good enough, but I am caught up in various troublesome things because I can see things that are invisible to people ...

The successor of the Tsujimura clinic, Motoharu has always held his childhood friend, Hazumi Akira, close to his heart. He confessed to Akira and then was rejected. Even so, he still entered the same univers...

This is a collection of some of Hanawa's early ero-guro work, mainly from the 70's.

When her father dies, Kotomi decides to leave her family to become a maiko.

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the g...

Lili is just like any other girl except she can foretell the future! This 'Zodiac PI' relies on horoscopes and astrology to help her solve crimes and track down criminals. When there's trouble a'brewing, she...

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to th...

In the first years of the Meiji era, when Tokyo still named Edo, Senba Heishirou, a former policeman at the Minami-cho magistrate's office, was leading an uneventful life as the kept lover of a geisha. Until...

Yoshida Tamako was the youngest of 11 children. When she turned 3, she was taken to the Gion district of Kyoto by the Okami of a traditional Maiko/Geiko house. It is there that Tamako changes her name to Sak...

They suffer between Love and Duties. Includes several stories, all based loosely on other works: Swan Ninja Art Anecdotes (Swan Lake, ballet) Edo Love Dance (Carmen, opera) DOLL (Nutcracker, ballet) La...

Butterfly is a young geisha in training. She loves and admires her childhood friend, Chinatsu-san. He’s a tattoo artist, and he paints butterflies on her arms and is kind to her. One day she visits Chinats...

Within the winding streets of Kyoto's geisha district, there lives a 16 year old girl named Kiyo. After failing to become a Maiko, an apprentice traditional Japanese performer, Kiyo works as the caterer for ...

In 1941, Soutarou Kuramoto returns to Japan after years abroad with something on his mind. His closest childhood friend was a boy named Haroumi Asuma, who was famous for his traditional dances in women's clo...

In Edo (ancient Japan), an oiran (high-class courtesan) joined a robber gang that stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Together, they battled against the enemy who used ‘Eleki’ (electric gadgetry an...