A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

This is the tale of two members of a Beatles cover band who find themselves transported back in time to 1961 – to a time before anyone had ever heard of the Beatles – and decide to take the mantle of the world...

Based on the life of real life historical figure/potentially mythological artist Hidari Jingoro. Jingoro is an extremely talented woodworker, sculptor, painter, wordsmith, you name it. But when his lover, Osen...

Adaptation of a popular novel.Five years after the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed—- Kizou is the dour, misanthropic owner of a used-goods store. One night, out of the blue, the demon Koharu wanders into his house...

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from...

Ginko finds himself in a village which falls victim to a mushi that blocks out the sun; however, one villager seems to benefit from this calamity.

Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka...

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as...

The novels are set in the Japanese court of 1000 years ago and follow the exploits of court astronomer, diviner, and exorcist Abe-no-Seimei and former prince and most talented musician of his time Minamoto-no...

Sarusuberi recounts short episodes in the later life of Hokusai, the genius ukiyoe artist, and of his daughter, Oei. It was later adapted into the anime Miss Hokusai (2015).

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...