In everyone else's eyes, the emperor was appropriately proper and did his utmost to make the nation prosperous; a promising youth and a wise ruler. Only Song Shiwei knew that he'd hoodwinked the entire world...

During the closing years of the civil war period and uneasy reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, when men high and low scramble to follow conventional propriety so that they don't attract undue notice (or death) to ...

In the third year of Keio, at the end of the Edo period, Rise, a young girl, enthusiastically creates various Western dishes at Motomachi-tei, a restaurant in Yokohama village near Edo. One day, Rise is call...

In the Keisei Hiwa (傾城秘話) series: 1. Kago no Naka de (篭の中で; 2001) 2. Kago no Hana (籠の華; 2002) 3. Boukyaku no Yume (忘却の夢; 2005) 4. Yume no Michiyuki (夢のみちゆき; 2007)

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...

Miharu, the only daughter of the kimono shop Aoiya, proposes a deal to her matchmaker, Viscount Yoshitsugu Hanakura, a captain in the Imperial Army. That is, she wants you to pay money in exchange for sacri...

A year has passed since the legendary Battle of Sekigahara. Now, under the Tokugawa Shogunate, all is peace in the Land of the Rising Sun. But the dashingly arrogant Maeda Keiji is finding this new world wit...

18th century France, just before the revolution. The palace of Versailles hosted a dressmaker with more style than even the nobles themselves. This is the story of Rose Bertin, the mother of fashion design a...