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...
- ISBN10 1421527472
- ISBN13 9781421527475
- Publish Date 18 August 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 216
- Language English