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...

Edo period, a young draftsman, Sutehachi, arrives at Katsuhika Hokusai' s house, the genius of the print and his daughter O-ei. If the boy's passion for drawing does not give way to that of the master, haunted...

Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic...