Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 19: Volume 19

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 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 shogun's Inner Chamber...

The new government of Japan is determined to not only end the reign of the shoguns but erase any mention of the generations of women who once ruled the country. Try as they might to rewrite history, though, they cannot erase the memories of those who served in the Ōoku...

Author: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: Viz Media
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781974726547
ISBN10: 1974726541
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Historical Fiction
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | Romance

About the Author
Fumi Yoshinaga is a Tokyo-born manga creator who debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to Sandaru (The Moon and the Sandals). Yoshinaga has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for Ôoku, the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for her series Antique Bakery and the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award for Ôoku. She was also nominated for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist.