This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his...

An autobiographical account detailing French artist Boilet’s infatuation, courtship, affair and break-up with the eponymous Yukiko – a young Japanese woman who never attempts to disguise the fact that, whilst...