When Blake, Duke of Welminster arrived in St. Petersburg to discuss the news of Napoleon's advance on Moscow. At that point, love is the furthest thing from his mind! Then, invited to the home of an old friend,...

From pastel rhapsody: This story begins at the end of the Meiji era. A story that creates a new breeze in a rustic long-established kimono store. A long-established kimono store Mitsuboshi (Three Stars) once...

Arcana nightclub is a social gathering place for ladies and gentlemen. There, one-night-only romances bloom, and sometimes true love is formed. The ladies and gentlemen who frequent the club, the diva, the...

Spring of 1921 in the Taisho era, Ichijo Maria had lost her parents and entrusted herself to a friend's family. She leaves the house when the father became physical with her. Maria wanders the town and...

1951, Kyoto. A long-established restaurant elder daughter Ichika (34) lost her husband in the war and worked as a cooker at the hotel. The restaurant “Kuwanogi” is on the verge of bankruptcy, and in order to...

A series of oneshot illustrations of famous Chinese poems and folk tales: • Peony Pavilion• The Male Phoenix Seeks His Mate• Reed• Ah Jing• Solitary Rabbit(Artbook & Extras)

She is the Crown Prince’s fiancee, but on the night of their wedding, an edict was made and she was given off to marry the crippled and paralyzed God of War. On their wedding night, the paralyzed groom pressed...

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 transfer...

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 bold...

The name “Great Sage of Healing,” Lan-Hua Chai, is well-known not only in the Yongxiang Empire, but also in neighboring countries. Lan Hua, who possesses tremendous healing powers, has spent her childhood...

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 then...

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... Story...

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.