The fox who has lived for a millennium will outsmart the humans. In China during the Jin dynasty, it's said that a millennial fox lived in the tomb of King Yan Zhao of Zhou. That fox, Guangtian, goes to meet...

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war?

Yet another maid-tastic manga from Kaoru Mori, "Shirley" is an evocative glimpse into the daily life of winsome, 13-year-old Shirley, a maid in turn-of-the-century England. It has no connection with the other...

Highly recommended by Ryoichi Ikegami! "The man, sometimes with a sharp glance, quietly gazes at us living in the present..." In downtown Tokyo just after the defeat in World War II - in a burnt-out area where...

When he was young, Prince Takaoka had been told stories of India by Fujiwara no Yakushi, the favorite concubine of his father, as a bedtime story, and he had longed for that land. Decades later, as he grew up...

Early on New Year's morning, the ronin Senou Souichirou appears in Edo's Katagi tenements. Initially, the inhabitants regard him with fear and suspicion: Kankichi, the carpenter's son, thinks he may not be...

In 1661, Yasui Santetsu is a member of the Yasui House of the Four Houses of Go. However, he's beginning to doubt that Go is his true calling. Outside of the Go house, he goes by the name Shibukawa Harumi, and...

The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops. A young woman meets a young man. Both...

11 short stories independent from one another. The main theme is women's life in olden times Korea, dominated by Confucian morals in rural area.

A collection of some of the best stories by Baron Yoshimoto, one of the Japanese manga artists who helped develop the graphic novel form in the 1960s and 1970s by targeting an older audience with scintillating...

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This is the story of Kumiko, granddaughter of the last Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. She was born in the year before Great Kanto Earthquake (1922 / Taisho 11), and survived the turbulent times of 3 different...

A collection of eight short stories. Witch of the Flower Forest (Hana no Mori no Majo-san)The quiet old lady who lives alone has long being rumoured to be an evil witch. Two siblings are determined to discover...