Ôoku - The Inner Chambers

English

Series: Ooku: the Inner Chambers Ser.

ISBN: 1421527480

EAN: 9781421527482

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Historical Fiction

Publisher: Viz Media

Release Date: 12/06/2009

Synopsis: In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a woman...and the harem is full of men. R to L (Japanese Style). Curious about why female lords must take on male names, the Shogun Yoshimune seeks out the ancient scribe Murase and his archives of the last eighty years of the Inner Chambers--called the Chronicle of the Dying Day. In its pages Yoshimune discovers the coming of the Redface Pox, the death of the last male Shogun, and the birth of the new Japan... In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Red Pox has begun to prey on the countrys men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen to a quarter of the total female population. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shoguns Inner Chamber...

Awards: James Tiptree Jr. Award – null 

Excerpt: Unknown Property Excerpt

Ôoku - The Inner Chambers

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Width: 8.25 inches

Length: 5.75 inches

Weight: 11.46 oz

Pages: 200