Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 5 Yoshinaga Fumi Paperback
Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 5 Yoshinaga Fumi Paperback In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga's alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the…
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Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 5 Yoshinaga Fumi Paperback
In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga's alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power--including the shogun's seatIn Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent.
And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...Gyokuei, who first arrived at the Inner Chambers as a young novitiate monk, has risen to become one of the shogun Tsunayoshi's advisors. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. He hopes to protect the shogunate the same way his mentor Arikoto once did.
But the numerous intrigues of the Inner