This is not history as we know it. The year is 1600. Ten years have passed since Oda Nobunaga unified the whole of Japan. When Nobunaga realizes he is nearing the end of his life, he announces that he will hand...

High schooler Li Huowang can close his eyes and be transported to an uncanny world. Over there, he is a medicine primer who will be made into pills by his "Master" at any given time. Meanwhile, in the real...

An anthology of six short stories: The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003]Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic...

In ancient times, there existed the land of Wa, split between the reign of the gods and the world of man. It was an age when gods and men existed together. Miyo, an orphan girl, spent her days trying to accept...

Mameda is a tanuki who was born in the wrong era - all she wants is to trick humans, but that age of tanuki shenanigans is over. But one woman, a rakugo master named Bunko, shows Mameda that it's still possible...

At seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi, still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword. In the aftermath of the epic Battle of...

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who...

The brave tale of the peerless Great Emperor Leonard the First was evaluated as a universal truth. However, in his younger days, before he managed to unify the continent, he was a boorish and clumsy young...