A collection of stories that revolve around letters. Story 1, Strawberry and Anemone: Tsuzuru does want to kiss his girlfriend, Ichiko. He can’t, though, for a reason more biological than psychological......

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...

Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father’s job, so having his first day at a new school was just routine for him. Being intellectual in addition to being a trans...

The time is the Heian era. Kiyohara Nagiko, who is famous as a poet, is married to Norimitsu, the younger brother of Mitsuko Tachibana (the daughter of a late aristocrat). Mitsuko is suspicious of Nagiko's b...

This work is set in the Showa era during the mid-1960s and early '70s. Yukinojo, the protagonist, was abandoned on the grounds of a Tokyo temple soon after his birth. He meets and marries Asahi, the daught...

A young girl named Sayoko fascinates people with her brilliant singing voice in the early days of the Showa era. In an effort to make people recognize her, she starts wanting to sing in sound films. It's the...

A hapless young man is released from prison with nothing to his name, but he knows exactly what he wants: to train in the art of rakugo comedic storytelling. After seeing an unforgettable performance from on...

Born in a time of turmoil, from a rich family, of course the will is higher than heaven, and the misery is that the daughter of a concubine can only suffer disadvantages … never thought, in the struggle wi...

This is a series of short stories (some much longer than others); quite a few of which contain shounen-ai elements. In 1984, this manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shoujo.