Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of ...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

There was once an ordinary and remote village to which a man, who had no relatives, appeared. Since then, everything has changed. Labor became pleasant, people stopped starving and became healthier, resultin...

"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

In the Taisho era ,Shinjiro Katsuragi an aspiring novelist, moved to Tokyo and lives in a mysterious building called "Kurohige Hut", a house where all its inhabitants are yokai,The hut's caretaker Hiro...

Immediately after the end of the war, Tokuma lives as a craftsman at a steel works in Yawata, Fukuoka. His brother, Giichi, was killed in the war and married to his widow Mankiko. Life with Mankiko, who was ...