Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 11 Yoshinaga FumiPaperback
Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 11 Yoshinaga FumiPaperback 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, Volume 11 Yoshinaga FumiPaperback
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...Tokugawa Harusada connived for years to place her son in the shogun's seat, and now she's enjoying holding all the reins of power while Ienari is relegated to breeding duties. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. But although his mother sees him as nothing but a mindless studhorse, Ienari has been