Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421527480 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Fumi Yoshinaga debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to sandaru (The Moon and the Sandals) and has won numerous awards, including the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for her series Antique Bakery, and the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Ôoku.
"The Inner Chambers": a five-star destination! Viz Media's gorgeously-presented second volume of Fumi Yoshinaga's alternate-Edo saga "Ooku: the Inner Chambers" is (how is this possible?) even better than the first! Ruler of a gynocratic Japan in the deadly wake of the male-killing Red Pox, the shogun Yoshimune summons ancient scribe Murase, to read his secret chronicles of a ravaged society's gender-bending struggle to survive. As the (back)story opens, the ordained life of Arikoto, a young Buddhist abbot of great spiritual promise, . Another brilliant volume of a masterpiece series Amazon Customer Ooku is one of the best books I've read - both within the manga and non-graphic novels. It's simply spell-binding, mesmerizing, elevating, everything that a truly good book should be. Add to this beautiful, refined art. I've been most happy to continue with the series, and look forward to Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 3 (+Oku: the Inner Chambers) in April next year (2010) and Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 4 in August. Volume 5 has been already released in Japan, and the ser. Chase Gray said What a gorgeous volume.. This volume covers the start of the Chronicle of the Dying Day, an ancient scroll describing the beginning of women rule and the arrival of the Redpox illness. Yoshimune discovers the arrival of a monk named Arikoto and how he evolves in the Inner Chambers.This basically is the idea of the story, the Chronicle continues in the next volume, where we find out more about the Inner Chambers and the rule of the next Shogun. I highly recommend it!
And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the Shogun’s Inner Chamber…. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. In this 17th Century Japan the Shogun is a womanand the harem is full of men. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the Shogun. In it's 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 country’s men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen to a quarter of the total female population. 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. R to L (Japanese Style)
. Fumi Yoshinaga debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to sandaru (The Moon and the Sandals) and has won numerous awards, including the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for her series Antique Bakery, and the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Ôoku