A 21-year-old man, Shinkichi, is employed as assistant by the beautiful ageless shamisen player Toyoshiga. Despite the considerable age difference, they became lovers. But Toyoshiga is a jealous woman who can't...

After losing everything in the Great Famine, Amelia and Connor emmigrated from Ireland to the United States of America in 1849 to find happiness and become rich in California during the Gold Rush period.

A metaphorical depiction of Japan's apprehension concerning the advance of western culture in the country during the period preceding the Meiji Era. Historical figures and psychedelic experiences are on the...

A story about an invincible samurai and a young princess that he has sworn to protect.

A few days ago the eighth Tokugawa had inherited the shogunate in the midst of an unstable political situation, a striking man entered Edo. He had a shocking beauty eyes, and was so handsome that seemed to have...

Just before the beginning of the 1940 Pacific War, middle schoolers under the old school system Utaro and Satsuki meet a youkai. This story is titled "Oni wo Katareba," in which a cow youkai understands human...

Based on real historical figure called Honda Tadakatsu, the strongest military commander during the Japanese civil war/Sengoku period who served Tokugawa Ieyasu from the start of his career to become the...

In the first years of the Meiji era, when Tokyo still named Edo, Senba Heishirou, a former policeman at the Minami-cho magistrate's office, was leading an uneventful life as the kept lover of a geisha. Until he...

Himeko Hanatsuka, age 12, and Bunji Tsuchiya, age 30. Their relationship status is: "engaged." This story takes place during the Taisho Era, when Western and modern culture was beginning to spread in Japan. In...

Little stories about a boy named Ken and his daily life in 1976 with his stay-at-home mother, working father, cat Momo… and sometimes a duck.

The Roman empire is at the summit of its splendor. Cestus, a young slave boxer is constantly fighting and improving his style. Suddenly, an emperor’s messenger visits him and announces that the emperor Nerone...