Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 9

by Fumi Yoshinaga

Book Overview

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 seat

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421558777
• ISBN13: 9781421558776
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.2"